Board Thread:Petitions/@comment-28083312-20180305131928/@comment-29771477-20180312230929

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.