Guild Wars 2

1. The search function at this moment is useless inside some of the forum sections, like Revenant and Engineer in Professions.
I can search with words I can see right in the thread titles, or sure-fire terms like “revenant”, “staff”, “pistol”, “gyro”, and I get No Results.
I can do this with every modern browser, all extensions turned off, with no varying success.
Even the search-function itself is very rudimentary, and doesn’t allow any sort of advanced options.

2. No dates in thread listing.
There’s absolutely no way of knowing when a thread was created – or when someone last replied to it – without going one by one into the threads.
It is soon 2016. Forum softwares could do this last millennia. I can see no rational justification why it should be like this.

Trying to navigate, search and use the forums to any useful extent is giving me grey hairs.

Reddit is much easier to look through, and I’m pretty sure the devs pay more attention to it than this forum.

See the Sticky above, and/or the Stickies in other sub-forums.

Good luck.

Nelg.3795:

1. The search function at this moment is useless inside some of the forum sections, like Revenant and Engineer in Professions.
I can search with words I can see right in the thread titles, or sure-fire terms like “revenant”, “staff”, “pistol”, “gyro”, and I get No Results.
I can do this with every modern browser, all extensions turned off, with no varying success.
Even the search-function itself is very rudimentary, and doesn’t allow any sort of advanced options.

2. No dates in thread listing.
There’s absolutely no way of knowing when a thread was created – or when someone last replied to it – without going one by one into the threads.
It is soon 2016. Forum softwares could do this last millennia. I can see no rational justification why it should be like this.

Trying to navigate, search and use the forums to any useful extent is giving me grey hairs.

Use google to search the forums. It’s better than the search function of all but a few forums:

site:forum-en.guildwars2.com inurl:forum attune infused ring

There’s a very rational reason why the forum software hasn’t been updated in over 3 years: it costs money. ANet bought a system that turned out didn’t suit the company’s or community’s needs as well as expected. Because the existing system serves the primary needs, they’ve decided it’s not worth the time, frustration, and cost of buying another system, especially since there’s no guarantee they’d end up with a system that worked well enough to justify the effort.

I don’t like the forum system either, but I have no problem with ANet deciding to spend their money on other projects.