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Idea List / Features missing / Bugs that need fixing

Discussion in 'Have an idea? Post it here!' started by Char, Jan 26, 2015.

  1. SlMBA

    SlMBA Member Official Author

    Change the whole website, make it like you know who’s typing and everyone can see It at the same time, cause I need to click to the the alert or inbox again and is a bit annoying, make it a bit more SIMPLE
     
  2. SlMBA

    SlMBA Member Official Author

    Yes, kinda but not exactly, also why having this website when discord is way much more organized
     
  3. Noob

    Noob Honorary Featured Ghost Mod Ghost Moderator Official Author

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    This is a forum. There is an official Discord room for FRHD if that's what you're looking for.
     
  4. cctvcctvcctv

    cctvcctvcctv Well-Known Member

    Discord's useful for casual talk, and since it's a widely used platform these days it'll also hopefully increase interest in the game, + if we ever get the server verified, it'll also show up in search results.
    However discord fails in 3 aspects, in which I believe the forums are a better replacement:
    - Markup
    The forums really excel in terms of markup. You can easily navigate between different fonts, text sizes, text colours, paragraph placement etc.
    You can
    even create tables
    . You can only easily create bold, italic, crossed-through text, and spoilers on discord, with different text colours only really accessible using code boxes, of which colours are limited. You can't even create a hyperlink
    This all helps to make the forums better in terms of
    - Organisation
    The increased accessibility and range of tools on the forums help to organise projects such as the official ghosts thread or the timeline. It makes threads like these easier to read and navigate. In my experience, discord has been pretty useless and at best of times very restricting when it comes to trying to create tidy messages that contain content similar to the above linked threads, a task made even more difficult due to a lack of preview and character count of only 2000.
    Lastly, any decent project needs to have easily readable support (i.e. commentary), in which the platform you're using needs to have good

    - Structure
    When it comes right down to it, discord was made with easy-flowing talk in mind, which consequently also means a lack of message structure. The forums have different boards, threads and pages to separate inidividual messages and to increase their relevancy to the main topic, but on discord there's only so many categories and channels you can create before it starts to become cluttered and daunting to newer members. The forums deal with this issue by listing the different threads in terms of last message by default (you can list them by another value if you want) and also having a box on the main page showing the latest replied to threads, so as to show what's reasonably popular at the time. Discord doesn't have this feature, you create a channel/category, it stays there in the same position with no indication of total message count or view count, if you're a new member you can't immediately tell which channels are the most active ones. This tends to decrease relevancy to the main topic being discussed in more popular channels, as newer users will often swamp the channel with their own issues, and due to the lack of the equivalent to the forum's thread pages, it's harder to navigate back/read through past messages.
    In addition, anybody can create their own thread on the forums, which promotes tidiness and relevancy in itself. On discord, only mods/admins (or really anybody with a role with channel-creating perms) can create a channel. Other users have to rely on what's given to them.


    All in all, I believe discord's better for more casual, free-flowing conversation, whereas the forums are more useful for organising and maintaining more official and popular events. Both are equally important.
     
    Last edited: Jul 11, 2020
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  5. SlMBA

    SlMBA Member Official Author

    Like their discord Sever literally has not nothing in it
     
  6. SlMBA

    SlMBA Member Official Author

    Their discord sever literally have nothing in it
     
  7. vegetables

    vegetables Active Member

    Screenshot 2020-07-12 at 11.25.26 PM.png
     
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  8. Noob

    Noob Honorary Featured Ghost Mod Ghost Moderator Official Author

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    what should it have lol, its got enough for chattering
     
  9. SlMBA

    SlMBA Member Official Author

  10. SlMBA

    SlMBA Member Official Author

    But like they should do like some eventS on discord than here cause it’s like harder here than discord, or remake this website
     
  11. ClownCar5

    ClownCar5 Active Member

    When Is Free Rider HD Going To Get Updated?
     
  12. The_Trax_Man

    The_Trax_Man Well-Known Member Official Author

    Notifications when someone subs to us
     
  13. The_Trax_Man

    The_Trax_Man Well-Known Member Official Author

    Average plays from your tracks please
     
  14. SuperSmooth

    SuperSmooth Well-Known Member Official Author

    I'd really like a timer for slomo, like vehicles have. It would be useful for wheelies
     
  15. The_Trax_Man

    The_Trax_Man Well-Known Member Official Author

    a bar graph for or something to show how many views per month or play per months so we can see how we are doing and to see if we get better
     
  16. The_Trax_Man

    The_Trax_Man Well-Known Member Official Author

    never
     
  17. CHuguley

    CHuguley Well-Known Member Team Truck Official Author

    SNOW *clap* BOARD
     
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  18. Vikings573

    Vikings573 Active Member Official Author

    hay Char can you make the track be able to be different colors
     
  19. SuperSmooth

    SuperSmooth Well-Known Member Official Author

    tbh I think that would ruin FRHD
     
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  20. KnightKat09

    KnightKat09 Active Member Official Author

    Hey Char we could host a Free Rider HD Elimination Challenge every year where a track is released and it shows ghosts of people who are doing the track at the moment and whenever someone dies, they're out.
     
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