Guild Wars 2

Currently, looking at the Dev Tracker Thread, you’ll notice that it’s difficult to follow and find the Dev reply you are looking for on the specific thread YOU want.

Please Watch this short 59 second video that demonstrates how this can be improved:

Thank you for your time.

It would be nice to have QoL improvements on the forum. It’s badly designed and lacking. However (from my memory) they said the forum was designed by someone they no longer are doing business with and that they don’t have someone who knows the coding needed to do major changes to the forum. I guess they don’t consider forum QoL issues important enoough to spend money on either.

Seems like reddit is the forum improvement

Seeing how the Forums haven’t really been updated since 2012 and the forum creator no longer works for Anet… they could build a new forum and go from their? Possibly since they still haven’t fixed the plethora of Bugs plaguing the forums. Also I find it easier to find the Dev you are looking for and see all messages from that Dev.

With most threads only receiving 1 reply, it seems kind of pointless to have something like a dev tracker for individual threads.

If you want to pull all the dev posts though, here’s a small script. While viewing whichever thread you want to pull the posts from, simply open your browser’s console (generally F12), paste and run:

var c = document.getElementsByClassName("pagination")[0].childNodes;
var pages = parseInt(c.length > 3 ? c[c.length - 3].innerText : 0) || 0;
var h = document.getElementsByClassName("firstarrow")[0].href;
var url = h.substr(0, h.length - 5);
var b = document.getElementsByClassName("body")[0];

b.innerHTML = "<div id='_load' style='text-align: center; padding: 10px;'>Loading...</div>";

function getPage(page)
{
document.getElementById("_load").innerHTML = "Loading page " + page + " of " + pages;
$.get(url + "page/" + page, 
function(data,status)
{
if (status == "success")
{
var i = 0, j = 0, r = "";
do {
i = data.indexOf("<div class='arenanet post'", i + 1);
if (i != -1) {
j = data.indexOf("<div class='post'", i);
if (j == -1) j = data.indexOf("\n\n</div>", i);
if (j != -1) r += data.substr(i, j - i); }
} while (i != -1);
b.innerHTML += r;
}
if (page < pages) getPage(page+1); else document.getElementById("_load").style.display = "none";
});
}
getPage(1);

Yeah, current forums will never see a major overhall unless they fully rework the forums by hiring someone new. It’s sad because they left out so many features etc the forums could really used. I wouldn’t even be upset if they redid the forums fully and removed every old post to have a great working forums.

my fish hobby forum is 100% better than this lol and its just generic forum format everyone uses.

Here’s an Official response:

Gaile Gray

ArenaNet Communications Manager

Ahh, actually… this forum software was built for us by a company called Fangamer, back in 2012. It was customized for us, of course, and contains may singular features. However, the core was built on software that their company created and that one of our developers spotted in searching for a system for us to use.

Of course, our working with a smaller company did have its drawbacks, one of them the fact that we’re not able to make improvements to our current forums, for a variety of reasons including the code used to create it, the fact they no longer have team members working on forums, etc. Features that we’d like to have — even basics like a working search engine — are outside our reach. On the other hand, some features on this system are superior to systems used on other forums on which I’ve worked, so it’s sort of a “win some / lose some” situation.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/About-Forums/first#post6417968

Good luck.

Rukia.9860:

She must have worked on some pretty terrible forums, because I don’t see any special qualities on the GW2 forum, and every one I’ve used has a working search engine.

Most forums have every single thing GW2 forum has, thumb up, even thumbs down, we’re like facebook… people too sensitive to be thumbs downed lol need their safe spaces. Search bar, view user posts, etc.

So what makes GW2 forums so unique? Oh that’s right… non working functions lol

If Blizzard can revamp their forums entirely, why can’t we? (and it wasn’t even needed.)

I have asked for a -1 button about a thousand times, for those pesky recurring threads we all love to hate. I say bring it on I will wear either + or – proudly.

CMM.6712:

Rukia.9860:

She must have worked on some pretty terrible forums, because I don’t see any special qualities on the GW2 forum, and every one I’ve used has a working search engine.

Most forums have every single thing GW2 forum has, thumb up, even thumbs down, we’re like facebook… people too sensitive to be thumbs downed lol need their safe spaces. Search bar, view user posts, etc.

So what makes GW2 forums so unique? Oh that’s right… non working functions lol

If Blizzard can revamp their forums entirely, why can’t we? (and it wasn’t even needed.)

I have asked for a -1 button about a thousand times, for those pesky recurring threads we all love to hate. I say bring it on I will wear either + or – proudly.

So we most likely wont get this basic feature unless ArenaNet decides to migrate their forums to a new website design? I highly doubt this would be a priority since it cost money and ArenaNet would be wiser to spend that money to invest on the game for more content. =(