DragonflyJourney
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Do they though? The Elvenar Team didn’t miss them for the many years before they were created. Now threads are blinking in and out of existence or moving all over the place with no good explanation or resolution, which is a lovely new feature and not at all frustrating.I honestly don't think the Archives are for the players. It makes it easier for the Elvenar Team.
Ok, now I'm even more confused! hahaDo they though? The Elvenar Team didn’t miss them for the many years before they were created. Now threads are blinking in and out of existence or moving all over the place with no good explanation or resolution, which is a lovely new feature and not at all frustrating.
Take this example: This poor OP prob couldn’t find his original post to read the answer because another new active thread got archived prematurely for no reason and then he started a second thread with same question to get answers. And even though someone took the time to change the thread status to “Not a bug”, which signifies a staff read that thread (only 3 posts long btw), nobody wants to address why his original post is showing up in archives, bothered to move it out of archives, or seemingly prevent future posts from appearing in archives. It’s not the first incident, as this thread also points out. So is the new policy that we have to manually report/request every single mis-archived active thread ourselves since nobody bothers to check the archives they’ve newly created for us despite knowing this is a constant problem? It’s more work for people trying to get answers, more work for people trying to help provide answers, and more work for the Elvenar team. So what solutions did the introduction of all these archives resolve exactly at the cost of all the new problems it created?
There are far more lurkers on the forum than active posters. It’s effective as a central location to address common issues that affects all players. A proactive player who finds the solution here can relay the news back to potentially 24 more players in their FS, and that’s potentially scores of tickets that never need to be written to burden the voluntary support team with. A working forum not in dysfunction serves everyone’s interest. It feels like they decided to renovate the place but put in old orange shag carpeting. Um, sure…okay, I guess. An improvement? Not really. Unless, given the latest press release, we are just witnessing people moving deck chairs on the Titanic.
There's a lot of good info in the archives, and since they randomly archive things that shouldn't be archived, I wouldn't want to see it all disappear.I'm all for getting rid of the archives, but it isn't my sandbox so I have to play by their rules.
I don’t think anybody is advocating removing the posts/threads that are in archives. I think many of us would like to see the archive mechanic go away, and bring all of those threads back into their previous locations. Just have the pages of threads, like it was.There's a lot of good info in the archives, and since they randomly archive things that shouldn't be archived, I wouldn't want to see it all disappear.