OK. not specific to MPQ but does anyone else go to other forums and wish it was as good as this one? And I don’t mean the content. I mean being able to jump to the new comments without scrolling through old content, instant highlight of new comments to threads I have commented on, general ease of use.
I go to many forums in a day and wish they all used the software that this forum uses. That is all. 
It’s not bad. I liked the old forums better.
No, I have not noticed that this forum software is any good.
</software engineer hat off>
Nope. Sorry. I still hate this forum software like burning.
Hmmmmm…not sure what forums you all see that are better but I like this forum. Oh, well.
They took away my upvote count and my sweet, sweet, green posts, and I will never forgive that.
Seems pretty typical for forum software, but as MPQ forum software, it’s second-class (bring back MPQ character emojis, please).
Yes, it’s awesome.
I especially like the gigantic white borders to the left and right when on a PC.
Such engineering masterpieces.
Is this a sarcasm post? 
The forums are certainly… serviceable.
Lots of wasted space on desktop,
Minimalist to the point of missing essential features like signatures on mobile.
Quotes are very hard to manage, especially when nested. If you’re good with html you can fix it, I doubt a high percentage of users are that good with html…
Never got the old forums nice features like custom emotes and upvotes back.
https://forums.505go.com/discussions has broken bookmarks that @Brigby stated 3 months ago require a web developer to fix (https://forums.505go.com/discussion/69876/forum-issue-stickied-topics-in-discussions#latest) still not fixed and a third has been added to the other two since then…
Yeah it’s great…
The worst part about the custom emotes is that they still have the images hosted, they just can’t be bothered to add them to a drop down or popup menu like… oh, every other forum.
Not only that - the emotes were genuinely useful in many threads that cover boosted characters, character power colors, etc. Losing those still irks me.
Guess it must be the other forums I am on where I have to constantly scroll to find the latest posts. This forum lets me know the number of new posts and lets me jump right there. If others hate it, no worries. Just my opinion.
The loss of the Users list, reputation, all the resources we built up (wipes tear from eye at thought of all those PVP and season threads, and the season winners threads), it makes me sad.
I think something else we lost in the move was registered users. Sometimes I connect at 9 or 10 pm local (NZ) time, and it’s me + 4 guests.
Maybe @Brigby can give us some figures. There’s an old thread from June 2017 called “PSA: Forum Structure - How Would You Organize It?” where he claims “…over 10,000 members and over 100,000 visitors viewing and posting a week…”. I’d love to know how many active members still log in each week.
Just to give you an idea of how many people are active members/visitors to our forum, here are some of the numbers from 3/19 to 3/25:
What I find rather interesting is that the # of Guests Visits hasn’t dramatically increased, however the # of Member Visits has, which suggests to me that there are now either more people deciding to sign up for the forum, or existing members are more frequently visiting the forum than there were before!
@Brigby - any figures on how many members visited during that week? I connect a dozen or more times a day to check the announcements, just waiting for the glorious, nay, dazzling day when She is finally revealed.
Looking at the analytics, it does in fact say that those are Unique Visits, which I take it to mean they have factored out individuals that log in multiple times a day.
There are a few things the newer software does better than the previous forum, but I’m not convinced it’s an improvement, overall. The mobile site in particular is a travesty, which should really be a higher priority on any site in this “mobile first” era, but especially for a (primarily) mobile game. The much smaller set of text formatting options is also disappointing. Text colors, in particular, had some real value on the old site.
There are some basic layout improvements that can still be done here (this has improved since day one, except for the mobile site), those aren’t a function of the software itself so much as its current configuration.
Really, there’s no need for this to have a separate mobile site at all. The main (desktop) site is already built with some basic responsive design aspects (note how the number of columns on the main page varies if you widen or narrow your browser window) – those same design principles should be used to deliver a mobile-friendly layout to mobile devices based on their resolution. Anything on the main site that doesn’t work on a modern mobile browser should be considered broken and fixed to work on as many modern devices as possible.
Just spotted this response, thank you for the information.
How is “unique” defined in this context? If on Tuesday I connect from work (never happens, honest), on my tablet, and from home, each time automatically logged in as Moon Roach, is that 3 or 1?
One thing I like about this forum is that it saves a draft of my reply frequently. It saved me from retyping long sentences multiple times after hitting the wrong button on my mobile phone.