Definitely agree with you! It’s so much chaos sometimes.
The Official Feedback Thread
- Thread starter Jeremy
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First time posting feedback about the site here. Ok, I use mobile more than the desktop version. I know its not a problem with internet because I use multiple wifis. Anyway, my issue is that sometimes I "double post" but I know I didn't intentionally double post. I hit the "Post reply" button only once but it ends up double posting anyway. I don't know if its a server issue or an internet issue but it has bugged me a little now with editing out the automerges.
Croconaw
“I’m part of it, like, I hate them, too.”
This happens to me with lag on mobile. I’m actually thankful for the auto-merge. It makes it easier to edit out when I didn’t mean to double post.
xSuperMario64x
sleepy moon loaf ‧₊˚ ☾. ⋅
I feel like I remember, during the April Fools event in 2023, that the mining react was strictly limited to the event boards, and couldn't be used anywhere else. I wish this event was more like that. I mentioned to another user that the reacts used during this event came across as spammy, because people were just reacting to the most random posts and it got kind of annoying.
I didn't want to have to turn off notifications just to make them stop because I feel like I've missed some important notifications in an ocean of what is essentially spam. I don't mean to be disheartening and I know it was all in fun (I prob would've enjoyed it a lot more if I didn't have surgery the same day oops). I just wanted to give my personal feedback.
also, if the spammed reacts could be removed from the non-event boards that would be really great.
I didn't want to have to turn off notifications just to make them stop because I feel like I've missed some important notifications in an ocean of what is essentially spam. I don't mean to be disheartening and I know it was all in fun (I prob would've enjoyed it a lot more if I didn't have surgery the same day oops). I just wanted to give my personal feedback.
also, if the spammed reacts could be removed from the non-event boards that would be really great.
I was kinda surprised it wasn’t limited to event boards . It was weird seeing so many of my past posts and profile comments hit with ice cream. I loved the event but since not everyone wanted to participate it would probably be a good idea to limit it just to event posts . It would make it easier to see who was and was not participating.
Croconaw
“I’m part of it, like, I hate them, too.”
I was very shocked myself it wasn’t limited to event boards. Strawberries figured out rather quickly I had a butt-load of posts in the “Quick, Before The Mods Come” thread and targeted my posts in there going as far back as a few months. It was a good strategy, though, I’ll give them that.
It would’ve been interesting to see the results had it been limited to event boards. I’m not sure we would’ve had a different outcome, but the numbers would’ve been different, for sure.
If the reactions had been restricted to event boards, I can very easily see people spamming one-worded posts just because the reaction fodder would be limited if you stuck to normal posting rules.
The spam would be more contained, but with how unstable the servers have been lately, I worry if the site could have handled it, since it was struggling so much with just the normal traffic and reactions.
Although I hope that the ice cream reacts stay on posts as a fun memory, I noticed many people upset that they missed notifications. I probably missed some myself, but I just don't have it in me to look through 1000+ notifs
The spam would be more contained, but with how unstable the servers have been lately, I worry if the site could have handled it, since it was struggling so much with just the normal traffic and reactions.
Although I hope that the ice cream reacts stay on posts as a fun memory, I noticed many people upset that they missed notifications. I probably missed some myself, but I just don't have it in me to look through 1000+ notifs
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In regard to potential opt outs, I’ll be honest and say I don’t think that’s something we’re likely to do — this event ran for a total of 32 hours. I understand some will disagree with me, and that’s fine, but I personally don’t see it as a big problem if the forum is in chaos for 32 hours out of the entire year. (although we did joke in planning about what if they announced a new Animal Crossing during the Direct and a flood of new users came online to see ice cream…) The example of the Space Camp theme is a different situation where we know that it will be in place for weeks.
That being said, I hear you guys about limiting the event reacts to only the temporary board. I was the one who setup the reaction code for this event, so I’ll own up to that. In hindsight, I think that may have been best, but it just didn’t occur to me. I had no part in hosting the NFT event and wasn’t really active on TBT at that time, so I didn’t have the knowledge of that precedent. Definitely worth consideration for next time.
That being said, I hear you guys about limiting the event reacts to only the temporary board. I was the one who setup the reaction code for this event, so I’ll own up to that. In hindsight, I think that may have been best, but it just didn’t occur to me. I had no part in hosting the NFT event and wasn’t really active on TBT at that time, so I didn’t have the knowledge of that precedent. Definitely worth consideration for next time.
As soon as I knew what kind of event it was I knew it was going to spiral all over the forum and into year/decade old posts like the naughty or nice event did. Except it was probably worst because it was a team competition. I do feel like there needs to be some handle on this because members have already expressed dislike about getting barraged by event reactions during dusting events. And I can sympathize with that. If you're going on the forum to have a real discussion and everyone is going on a spam-induced craze it's going to get annoying.
I tried to limit my reacts to the event board but then I saw others hitting up threads that didn't even have anything to do with the event and also spamming people who weren't even taking part of the event. I finally did the same since I didn't want my team to lose because my refusal to do so, but I'm not proud to admit it. It was a fun event, but there needs to be some kind of limit. Sure this event was only 2+ days, but naughty or nice went on for a full week+ and all over the forum was getting hit up with event reacts. So understandably people will get frustrated when they are just trying to engage in the forum.
I tried to limit my reacts to the event board but then I saw others hitting up threads that didn't even have anything to do with the event and also spamming people who weren't even taking part of the event. I finally did the same since I didn't want my team to lose because my refusal to do so, but I'm not proud to admit it. It was a fun event, but there needs to be some kind of limit. Sure this event was only 2+ days, but naughty or nice went on for a full week+ and all over the forum was getting hit up with event reacts. So understandably people will get frustrated when they are just trying to engage in the forum.
-Apples-
Apple Imperialist
Yeah, I don’t want to get hit by snowballs on my selling threads or profile posts on others’ profiles.
Also, is it possible to shut off reaction to people on your ignore list? So like if you block them on TBT, they won’t be able to react to your posts.
Croconaw
“I’m part of it, like, I hate them, too.”
I have people on my ignore list, and I’ll just say that whenever they interact with my posts in any fashion, be it reacting to it or quoting, I do not receive a notification for it. I think that’s enough.
If it were like you suggested, people would easily be able to figure out who ignored them, which would cause more issues than it would solve.
It’s absolutely fine the way it is.
Sharksheep
(⨀🞃 ⨀ )◄
Could the staff remember to delete all the raffle tickets after an event ended? And set the date of purchased tickets to be as old as possible?
It's annoying having to manage these raffle tickets when planning line ups since all the collectible information is displayed as a list.
Speaking of user own collectibles, is it possible to display them as a table instead.
It's annoying having to manage these raffle tickets when planning line ups since all the collectible information is displayed as a list.
Speaking of user own collectibles, is it possible to display them as a table instead.
Twiggy_Star
AC dodo and owl fan
Since there’s a place to share artworks on this forum. Do you think there could be a dedicated place to share fanfiction/write down a short quick fan fic. Maybe in the Museum forum somewhere, or something. Sure there may be specific rules that are needed, but I think this could be a good idea for those who may want to share a small story that had in mind with certain characters and don’t have/don’t want to make a whole fanfic, wattpad, Ao3 account.
And maybe it could be used to also get feed back for fanfics that users have posted elsewhere, too
And maybe it could be used to also get feed back for fanfics that users have posted elsewhere, too
I think you can make a thread for your fanfiction in the Museum. I've seen people use their Museum threads to share writings, and I've also posted a short story in my art thread once.
srry for the pings! i agree with both of you. from a web accessibility perspective, i think it's less of an opt out to the event itself, but rather ensuring that users who rely on increased contrast/predictable colors always have a reasonable way to access the site without extraneous visual data. that way, if they choose to participate, they have a text-friendly way to engage with the event as well as a way to view non-event information without straining their eyes/cognition/etc!
having that sort of feature available does require, like, a person on staff who knows how to configure a website to be WCAG-friendly. that is very much time-consuming. for april fools, maybe a really slay compromise would be to disclose in advance that the site would be less usable for ppl with certain disabilies from [x] to [y] time, without revealing details of the event ? :]
-Apples-
Apple Imperialist
I see that you can now only discard one collectible at a time. That should resolve the problem of accidentally discarding all of your favorite collectibles.
I do hope that raffle tickets have a short duration though.
I do hope that raffle tickets have a short duration though.
Firesquids
☆ Roxie of Avalar ☆
It's now nearing two years since the change, and while the other character collectibles have grown on me in that time, I will say that Jack really hasn't. So I'm now begging you staff, please change him back!
Or at the very least can we make him work better with the other pumpkin collectibles? Jack's redesign just doesn't look right with them, he's very flat.
(He's also suffering from the same issue that some of the other redesigned character collectibles had in that one side of his face is too straight and not rounded like the other side. ) Obviously I don't mean to insult whoever did the redesign, but I just still can't abide this change.
Or at the very least can we make him work better with the other pumpkin collectibles? Jack's redesign just doesn't look right with them, he's very flat.
(He's also suffering from the same issue that some of the other redesigned character collectibles had in that one side of his face is too straight and not rounded like the other side. ) Obviously I don't mean to insult whoever did the redesign, but I just still can't abide this change.
We just did a mass discard of over 2500 raffle tickets going back years, so that should help!! For the future, we will try and remember to have raffle tickets discard themselves after some time. It's just one of those million different minor details that have to be remembered and taken care of for every event which easily get missed.
Correct, we already consider The Museum board to be suitable for all sorts of creative work, not just drawn art.
We did remove the bulk discord option a couple weeks ago, after a few more incidents by members recently of accidental bulk discards of important items. Obviously, a confirmation window would be ideal, but this is a quick effective fix as I don't think bulk discard is used often outside of raffle tickets.
It's now nearing two years since the change, and while the other character collectibles have grown on me in that time, I will say that Jack really hasn't. So I'm now begging you staff, please change him back!
Or at the very least can we make him work better with the other pumpkin collectibles? Jack's redesign just doesn't look right with them, he's very flat.
(He's also suffering from the same issue that some of the other redesigned character collectibles had in that one side of his face is too straight and not rounded like the other side. ) Obviously I don't mean to insult whoever did the redesign, but I just still can't abide this change.
No need to worry about insulting anyone, the artwork is by Nintendo! Well, it was my decision to update them to use the newer Nintendo art, so you can insult me for that -- but I don't mind! It was done to both make use of newer villagers from New Horizons while remaining consistent, but also for another reason which we aren't talking about yet... but hopefully soon! Given how long it's been, with hindsight now, I probably got ahead of myself making the change at that point.
Now in regard to Jack specifically, after seeing the reaction from everyone, we definitely did discuss on staff whether we should make an exception for Jack and specifically design a version that more closely matches the other pumpkins. Just didn’t get around to it, but it's worth revisiting I think and thank you for bringing it to our attention again
Though I do think there is a bit of a misunderstanding here — I don't believe the other pumpkin collectibles were ever meant to be explicitly ‘matching’ to Jack. I see the character collectibles as an entirely different set of items, especially as they are just using the art from Nintendo. Clearly that is not how you guys see it though, so again, noted. We’ll see.
Separately, I understand what you mean about some of the faces -- it's just a matter of sloppy resizing on my part. I'll take another look at that too, but it will also be somewhat addressed by that other unspoken reason later.
