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Edited by Donut:
7/27/2013 8:27:43 AM
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This website is simply not enjoyable.
NOTE: This is mostly opinion.
It's been over half a year, and I've tried so hard to grow to like bungie.next, but the simple matter is that it's just not an enjoyable experience, especially compared to bungie.old.
[url=http://halo.bungie.net/forums/topics.aspx?forumID=10]Look at this.[/url] Look at how sleek the forum looks. The overall black theme looked fantastic. Threads were easy to locate and enter.
Reply chains suck. Really, IMO, they just do. Quoting was a much better way of replying to someone. Which brings up another point of why reply chains are a bother.
Chronological post order. Yeah, we got that feature back a few months ago here, but reply chains jumble everything up. Although the replies are technically organized within the posts this way, you still have to constantly switch between reply chains to keep up with a conversation. I highly preferred quoting in bungie.old, and how absolutely everything was going in chronological order. How conversations were intermixed. "Drinking from the firehose", if you will.
Infinite page scrolling is just atrocious. Chronological post order is simply unusable with big threads when there are no pages. Pages were godly.
And then the little things, such as big avatars, titles, and the thread icons showcasing a thread's popularity, not a member's avatar. The "hot topic" detector on bungie.next is simply confusing. I've seen threads with hundreds of replies but they still don't have a blue shied. Having a hot topic activate at post 51 made it an easy way of seeing "this thread has a good amount of replies, check it out."
#OffTopic doesn't provide the amount of lulz that The Flood did. I miss being a Floodian.
All in all, this website just doesn't feel like home anymore. I guess most of it's new features ARE usable, but they make for an experience that just doesn't give me the satisfaction old bungie.net did. This has been said a million times, but seriously, these barely feel like forums anymore. They're more like comment sections.
It truly breaks my heart that old bungie.net is gone forever, and that what I used to call my internet home is now just an unenjoyable mess.
Anyone else feel the same? </3
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Bungie will never admit they failed.
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I think the reason we got the reply chains (which I hate) is because they were the easiest way to implement the notifications, so if they had gone back to the quote system, I'm not sure we would be able to keep the notifications. Also, they said they didn't like the repetition when people just quoted someone and posted, but I guess a well implemented like button would fix that. I don't like infinite scrolling either, and it doesn't work with the Chronological order, so I've kept using the Popular order.
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5 RepliesI remember when I thought removing the Halo 2 Nav Bar at the bottom of the page was a bad idea. But I got over it. We're creatures of habit and its easy for us to become set in our ways. It's only been in the past month or so (especially with the assistance of the mobile app), that I've really begun to embrace the new form of things. I knew I would eventually too, it was just a matter of time.
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3 RepliesI am not a fan of the "Like" button. Or Ninjas.
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7 RepliesOMG WE can dislike now. I don't agree with your opinion sir so I am going to have to dislike. Hell to the -blam!- yeah!
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Adapt.
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Edited by Payola: 8/1/2013 12:25:25 AMI agree. I'm not really a fan of most the changes, but there are some new things I would not like to go to b.old without. I think I'll get over it like every other update. Just give it time.
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I feel the same, but I also realize that this website is still a work in progress. I will reserve my final judgement until the completion of the website.
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Meh, there's a few issues, I think the good greatly out-weighs the bad though.
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2 RepliesYes. Bungie.old was the shit. I remember spending hours upon hours on that website. I made friends, we would have debate threads going on for months at time. I remember threads in which we talked about the Halo novels and trying to put all of the pieces from each one together. I remember Ilovebees. I hadn't been on the forums in a few years and I just registered a few weeks and this new site is nothing like the old. It's just a bunch of dumbasses talking about nothing.
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I agree, and if Bungie really "listened" to us like they say they have been, reply chains would be gone.
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I'll always prefer the previous rendition of a site, especially Bungie.net, so I try not to think about the change.
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1 ReplyLayout's crap. Also, internet forums have been taken over by the latest 'edgy internet craze' of fedora wearing edgy atheists. How fun.
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The new site is growing on me, even though I preferred the flow of Bungie.old
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I liked the old layout too, for much of the reasons you said. I am still getting used to the new one, but eventually this one may grow on me. But probably not :p .
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[quote]Look at how sleek the forum looks. The overall black theme looked fantastic.[/quote]I'd disagree here. Aesthetically, B.Next is a big step up from B.Last. [quote]I've tried so hard to grow to like bungie.next, but the simple matter is that it's just not an enjoyable experience[/quote]I agree here. I'm not entirely sure why. I think that reply chains are a major factor. Your participation in a thread becomes condensed into a single conversation, you miss out on all the rest of what goes on. And the whole thing is very unpolished (to be expected from a new website that is still being fiddled with... But in the meantime, it sucks). Things like having to click each and every reply nest to read it... Every snowflake in the avalanche pleads 'not guilty' and all that.
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[i]its about the people not the place[/i]
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1 ReplyEdited by Berk: 8/31/2015 10:04:53 PMRedacted
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Edited by Berk: 7/28/2013 7:37:12 AMIgnore this post. accidently double posted.
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Well, I lurked until B.next, but B.old still felt like home, especially through the darkness.
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Well, there's no Destiny to fuel the forums right now, so that explains a bit.
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I agree, I was much more active during Bungie.old. Although I usually lurked, I still enjoyed it. Now I only come back every once and a while to see if I am missing any news.
