Board Thread:Petitions/@comment-28083312-20180305131928/@comment-24.64.102.138-20180312231511

QUEEN AYSHA wrote: Ursuul wrote: I agree that it’s an incomplete product, but I encourage you to actually get on your phone & compare the difference between loading (it has 154,000+ replies) & loading this thread, which has reached the maximum of 500 replies. It took my iPhone two whole minutes to load that Forum thread, & the browser actually locked up during the process (it continues to do so randomly as you scroll too). That titanic Discussions thread took only three seconds to load for me, & loading new replies takes less than a second each time; my only limitation is in how fast I can press new replies, but I’m certain that a “view all” function may one day come to Discussions, whereas it’ll never happen with Forum.

Also I would like to casually point out again that there are over one hundred thousand replies in that thread & Discussions barely even blinks. There is no way on earth you could ever have such a huge conversation in comments, much less any thread.

I’ve had lots of users on dragon age become editors. The trick is forming a critical mass in Discussions of people who care about the content & actual editors to teach them; the more people use discussions, the more editors you can get out of it, exponentially, & unless you’re using the community app it’s not difficult at all to move out.

I totally agree with you about notifications & I wish Discussions provided one, & I think it’ll be good to add as it develops. But, at the end of the day, it is evidently obvious that saying “Discussions is not a good place at all,” is objectively false, even in its current underdeveloped state. Damn. Yeah, I agree with Ursuul. I used to absolutely loath discussions, but I don't anymore. Despite their awful level of interactivity (no pinning stuff, no wikitext), they have earned their place as a valid discussion area. 154,000 comments is a ridiculously large number, and though it took me closer to 15 seconds to load the forum link (with no freezing) it took me less than a second to load the discussions. For ONE! HUNDRED! THOUSAND! AND A HALF! COMMENTS!!! So if you don't wanna use discussions, don't. But don't complain about not having a place to talk; they're right there. (this is still me, aysha) That's an insane amount of people, my dudes. Don't want to derail, but the biggest football stadium on planet earth is 40,000 seats short of being able to seat that many people. Ursuul just singlehandedly proved to me that Discussions are ridiculously efficient and shuld be a replacement to article comments+forum.