Hi guys, I just wanted to start a topic that could be a general forum recommendation thread but not only that one that discusses current forum events and what we think of the changes and so on...
If there is already a topic pertaining to this I'd more than be glad if this one was locked.
So to start things off I'd like to discuss, well obviously, the current changes. No liking post and no status updates. Now while these may not belong on a forum and are more suited to social media something feels off now that it's gone. Of course, it wasn't there before when things first got started up but I think that it was a fine and comfortable part here. Now with chat being moved to the main site and the Skype group being disbanded, I thought it was a really good way to say in contact and ask questions that don't need there own topic and such. It also allowed for fun little things and stuff. Now it was bad when people would directly send out harmful comments to others but all in all I think it really worked.
As for the like system, it was okay. It did cause people to stray away from actually leaving feedback but when people don't reply it was still a good way to show people did indeed like what they saw. Because I don't think not having it encourages much more posting either. This one is debatable though so I know that it's a 50/50 of it's actual usefulness but again. to me, it helped people see that there was a following of their projects even if people did have the time or just didn't want to leave a reply.
Now, I could be wrong and they're just maintaining the forum and all this stuff will come back but just in case.