Welcome back to the updated forums!

[Tolero]

Welcome to the redesigned forums! You'll notice a few changes right away, and you may still experience a little bit of shuffling and moving while we all acclimate to the new format together... let's talk about some of the new fun changes to the forums!


Trial Forums (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=78) - Welcome new players! The guest and trial forum discussion has been moved to the top of the list for easier access. We're glad to have you in DDO, and hope your stay with the Community is a long one!
Welcome To Eberron! (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=81) - New players have many questions, and the player community is always happy to help! Stop by the Welcome to Eberron forum to meet and greet new arrivals to Stormreach, and mingle with existing players who are happy to lend a guiding hand!
News & Discussion (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1) - There are a few new arrivals in this tier of forums! We're happy to introduce:
Official Discussion Threads (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=166)- Join the Turbine team for targeted discussions and banter about news, updates, feedback, previews, and more!
Suggestions (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=75) - Have some cool ideas for the game? Feel free to post your suggestions in the Suggestion forum!
Visions of Eberron (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=167) - Share and view your best in-game screenshots in this new screenshot forum!
Turbine Contests (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=168)- Keep up to speed on Community contests here!
Hall of Fame (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=169) - Read more about this new addition to the forum family by clicking here!
Guilds at the Server Forums (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4) - Each server now features its own sub-forum for all your guild related needs! Post recruitment messages, guild updates, look for a guild for you, and more!
Character Builds (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=175) - Read more about this new addition to the forum family by clicking here!
Gameplay (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=179) - Our latest addition to the discussion boards, join developers and other players to talk about various aspects of the game! "The QA Lodge" has now moved into the General Gameplay (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=180) forum. Codog's "The Dog House" has taken up residency in the Combat (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=181) forum! You can find a forum home for many game topics, including: Combat, Quests & Adventures, Monsters & AI, Hirelings, PvP, and Favor!
Perma-death & Static Groups (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=48) - Join other players looking to fill out their groups and guilds for these fun alternative play styles! Discuss your own house-rules for playing DDO and more! And don't forget about the Achievement forums!
In-game Player Events (http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=186) - Read more about this new addition to the forum family by clicking here!


You may notice threads moving to and fro as we migrate threads into their appropriate areas, but a "moved" message will indicate where the thread moved to. We hope you enjoy mingling with staff and other players in the new forums!

[elraido]

I am going to have fun looking around! Finally some news from a dev.....I keed, I keed.

[Aeneas]

Oh noes!! all the links are on the evil left side!!!!!! How sinister. :p

[Tolero]

Yeah it will take us time to get everything shuffled over to its appropriate homes ^^ so you might still see some threads moving to and fro with "moved" messages to let you know where they went (in some cases its self explanatory, but not always).

[Impaqt]

Looks good T. Looks like all my builds made it through the update as well! Thanks

[Justicar]

Looks pretty cool but gave me a little vertigo at first because of the switch!

[Memnir]

I don't like it. Not a bit. Is there any sort of User CP options to flip everything back? I mean it - this sucks.

[ChaelaAnne]

Is there any way to make the recent threads box as big as it was before? Made it easier to see what was going on at a glance. This one is just too small :(

[ShaeNightbird]

Oh noes!! all the links are on the evil left side!!!!!! How sinister. :p

Oh, Dexter, you'll get used to it. :p

[kinar]

2 days of downtime to switch the navigation menu from the right to the left?

yes, I just feel like *****ing right now...

[ArkoHighStar]

2 days of downtime to switch the navigation menu from the right to the left?

yes, I just feel like *****ing right now...

the down time yesterday was for a hardware upgrade, learn to read, it does wonders.

[Missing_Minds]

*looks at the forums and sighs* turning DDO into LOTRO I see. I much preferred DDO's layout.

[kinar]

the down time yesterday was for a hardware upgrade, learn to read, it does wonders.
To take a classic line from one of the best comedies ever produced (super troopers).

"I'll believe that when me **** turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet."


As a side note, please increase the number of recent threads shown on the main page again.

Thanks

[darthmaul121783]

theirs too much news and not enuf recent threads

[Mockduck]

It's more LOTRO-like in its presentation. Old habits die hard, but this seems pretty cool!

[rest]

I don't like it. Not a bit. Is there any sort of User CP options to flip everything back? I mean it - this sucks.

Agreed.

[Aeneas]

Yeah, if we could get like the top 15 most recent threads that'd be super.

[Tanka]

I'm not a fan. It's too specialized now. Too many subforums means that some of them will get almost no interaction. I mean, how many threads will the PvP forum get?

Too many subforums is never a good thing.

[Elaril]

I don't like it. Not a bit. Is there any sort of User CP options to flip everything back? I mean it - this sucks.

Agreed, this blows.

[Hatroq]

Too many sub-forums... Lots of time wasted clicking around between them. Leave the builds (or at least a copy) in the appropriate class/race forum.

More recent threads on the main page please.

[query]

Like Yahoo, Google and others, where is the "classic appearance" switch for the forums?

[cforce]

Yikes. I hate to give negative feedback on a project that probably had a *lot* of work put into it, but you've really over-specialized the forums into waaay too many forums on topics that are too small in scope. When I'm checking for new posts that I might find interesting, I'm not clicking through 30 different forums to look for recent threads -- 2 or 3, tops. This used to be (and probably still will be) General, Guides, and sometimes a class forum if I remember there's a hot thread in one of them that I found on the forum home page. By making more specialized locations, you're mostly just making more locations for a thread to be hidden and get a low view count.

There was starting to be too many forums before, and now this is really over the top. It's not about the view, unfortunately -- many of these forums should really be collapsed together so that posts will actually be viewed by more people.

Hopefully this can be taken as constructive criticism, but this new breakout is really a step backwards in forum UX.

[Roberto]

I don't like it. Not a bit. Is there any sort of User CP options to flip everything back? I mean it - this sucks.

Why not? What's wrong with it? Nothing stands out at me and says "because of THIS I'm never coming to these forums again"....