No one uses these things outside of responding to announcement threads and asking simple questions that are better suited to the slack.
A new player looks at this forum and thinks "Ya this game is dead".
Why not move announcements to an article system with comments and provide further emphasis on slack for everything else. User support beyond game questions can move entirely to the support ticket system that no one knows about (unless you ask in slack).
@shibdib said in Alpha Map - Same color as plains:
@artch All good, I know o4 was commenting about squishing bugs. Just wanted to make sure this thread didn't get lost in the shuffle
Apparently this got lost in the shuffle
I'm honestly not sure how I feel about this concept... which I guess is a good thing? Maybe?
NVM, false alarm. Refreshed a see a new announcement thread now.
There's still some claims on slack that it's appearing when it shouldn't tho
@artch All good, I know o4 was commenting about squishing bugs. Just wanted to make sure this thread didn't get lost in the shuffle
This is still an issue... I can't use the alpha map because my creeps and structures match the plains color
I think most would just be happy with a blog post with change notes. Don't need big announcements for everything.
As was already said it would fracture an already small community. There's some discords out there for individual servers but slack is and will remain the "official" chat platform.
A small example of a missed opportunity was the bugfix that went out yesterday for seasonal regarding collectors being walkable. Most of us assumed that was intended, and a few wrote code to make use of it (with guards, etc..) so when the "fix" was put in it broke some code and wasn't discovered until o4 commented on slack.
