Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25073873-20160916150826/@comment-17114085-20160920005609

The search feature is pretty pointless for Roleplaying, I for one have never needed to search for forum threads. If I've ever looking for an older thread I usually just look through the forums themselves, it isn't that hard to find a thread (at least not here) since our forums aren't that extensive.

The bugs do happen, but to be honest I only started experiencing the notification bugs when Wikia changed our perfectly decent navigation bar with the new one. The new white one was a disaster at lauch and had numerous bugs as well as being much larger than it currently us. Not to mention that it was constantly white and was quite the eyesore. Since then the navigation bar was improved, though they still haven't been able to fix the notifications.

Speaking of notifications, Discussions don't currently have any. As the Wikia staff member mentioned above they will be rebuilding the notifications for Discussions but as of yet there is no way to keep track of Discussions threads, get informed when a reply comes in or even an easy link to a specific thread like we have with the current notifications. That alone is a massive con for Roleplaying on Discussions and makes them utterly terrible for Roleplaying purposes.

Plan to adress them in the future seems like the usual Wikia response to things. They release something that is unfinished, a downgrade to the current stable feature and force people to use it by replacing something that wasn't broken to begin with. Then when they get backlash for doing something retarted they promise to fix it, sometimes they do sometimes they don't. It feels like a coin toss with these kind of things. The Discussions seems like it will be no different. When it is released many people will complain and they will listen to some of it and implement it, as long as it doesn't conflict with their original plan.

An example of this is the fact that the ugly white notification bar that they gave us now turns black as well as partially transparent when you scroll down a page, but if you return to the top it returns to being ugly and white.