Yeah, for now I'm going to turn them off. But, I think they'd look pretty alright after the tread title, if they just blended in visually a little bit more by not being big bright purples.
Hah, I'm pretty much the opposite. I only ever venture into Etc if there's some live thread for a major ongoing news event. Otherwise ERA is purely a gaming forum for me.
Nah, the response from the admins in the first couple of days was... not good, to put it lightly. Delphine was basically the first person to respond without hostility or just locking threads.
same. they were very annoying to me.Thanks for giving us the option. For me it looks cleaner without the tags.
I'm assuming the first one is for Gaming and the "duplicate" is for EtcetEra. Maybe there should be a break between the two sides with plain text showing which set is for which side. Something like:The "None" option seems to be working for me. Thank you all for the update and communication.
Are the duplicate options in under "Ignored Prefixes" a bug?
That makes sense.I'm assuming the first one is for Gaming and the "duplicate" is for EtcetEra.
Tag pool ideas:
Gaming News
Entertainment News
US Politics
Sales Data
Deals
Weekend
Official
Rumor
Spoiler
Anime
Sports
Music
Movies
Comics
TV
Retro
Star Wars
Dragonball
Don't forget Naruto threadsPlease add a Dragonball tag and a Star Wars tag and then add an option to automatically ignore threads with those specific tags.
Thanks in advance.
Not sure why they have to be different colours, but that's not an imposed eyesore that has to be dealt with anymore. Wouldn't mind knowing the reasoning for making them different colours though.
I would enjoy a way to filter threads by tag.Alright, finally rolling this out. I've got a few thoughts of my own.
Different colors made a lot of sense when they were prefixes, since it'd provide easy sorting into different groupings. Now that they're just tags, I think it makes more sense to have them all the same color. I like the purple, maybe we can just do something a little lighter.
And a preliminary tag list I've been spitballing:
Basically, two types of news to cover most of the bases, and then you get more specific with the single-topic tags. Threads would have 2-3 tags at most, ideally.
(The reason US Politics is the only Politics tag on there is because it's the starting point, not because it's the only one. Figure we'd listen to the community and see what other variants you guys feel are most required there).
Another idea we were kicking around that we're not 100% sold on is a [sensitive] tag that could serve as a guideline for discussion and potentially a content/trigger warning. The issue here is, on one hand we want to make sure people can filter out content that's bad for their mental health, but we don't want it to be an asset for the "No PoLiTiCs In My GaMeS" crowd.
my only feedback is on this version the tag should be the first icon since it's visually the most eye-catching
Filtering by tags is 100% in the cards, yeah. You can do that now, actually, through your profile.I would enjoy a way to filter threads by tag.
I would enjoy if gaming news differentiate between consol and PC.
As someone that uses mostly PC I don't care about Playstation exclusives so I'd love if of could filter for PC news.
This would specially helpful as ERA is very Sony centric and it is hard to find non console news
Thanks for the comprehensive answer, less. 🙏That's just the visual language of thread prefixes on forums using Xenforo/vBulletin/IPB/etc forum software. As far back as I recall, 14 years, thread prefixes have mostly looked the same with one or two exceptions. They were always placed to the left of the thread title and pushed the title further inward. And barring one exception, I've only seen thread prefixes were always colored tags with text inside. The colors would be different depending on the prefix to help distinguish them. That's probably why the different colors were used. Those that are familiar with thread prefixes more or less would probably accept how they've been used before and not seen much of an issue. Until the backlash here I didn't even consider that perhaps they shouldn't be to the left of thread titles.
Know what would be really nice? A word filter that we could use to hide threads we don't care about. For example, someone may want to see "US Politics" threads but not ones that have the word "Trump" in it. Giving users the opportunity to filter single words of their choosing like what the script some already use would be great.Another idea we were kicking around that we're not 100% sold on is a [sensitive] tag that could serve as a guideline for discussion and potentially a content/trigger warning. The issue here is, on one hand we want to make sure people can filter out content that's bad for their mental health, but we don't want it to be an asset for the "No PoLiTiCs In My GaMeS" crowd.
autograph pleaseI like the changes to the tag movement because I suggested it :D
Looks much better under the title, thanks for making that change.
Great!Filtering by tags is 100% in the cards, yeah. You can do that now, actually, through your profile.
Adding per-platform tags also looks doable. We don't want the pool to get too huge, since you start running into usability problems ("I can't find the tags I want so I'll just go for something close enough"), but an Xbox, PC, PS, Ninty set seems fine at a glance.
Can talk to the tech team about if it's possible/feasible to implement that natively but it'd be a different system than the tag one. Could always do a Trump tag, but he comes up in a LOT of threads, even ones that aren't explicitly about him. And in the same way, other sensitive topics come up in threads that aren't strictly about them.Know what would be really nice? A word filter that we could use to hide threads we don't care about. For example, someone may want to see "US Politics" threads but not ones that have the word "Trump" in it. Giving users the opportunity to filter single words of their choosing like what the script some already use would be great.
Thanks for the awesome feedback people, I appreciate it đź’ś
Quite frankly I'm mostly just glad nobody has yet judged me for using the white theme!