User Input: New Forum Features

Mike Straw
Diamond Medal

Mike Straw

Senior Editor
Staff member
Hi everyone. It's been a bit since I've posted an update, so I wanted to thank you for helping get the forums off the ground. We continue to move forward and make improvements that we hope will improve engagement and keep you all happy with the community we're building.

With that said, we are looking at adding new features to the forums. That's where you all come in. What features would you like to see added. No matter how big or small, we want to hear them all as we work towards updates in the coming weeks and months.

Thank you!
 
It could be interesting to have a specific section for video game testing. A place where users can notify when a game opens registrations to participate in an alpha or beta test, or even share invitations to such tests. Sometimes when you are selected to participate in a test you are given the possibility to invite friends.

Obviously it should be totally forbidden to share any kind of information under NDA, only invitations and information about when and how to join a test will be allowed.
 
Mike Straw said:
Hi everyone. It's been a bit since I've posted an update, so I wanted to thank you for helping get the forums off the ground. We continue to move forward and make improvements that we hope will improve engagement and keep you all happy with the community we're building.

With that said, we are looking at adding new features to the forums. That's where you all come in. What features would you like to see added. No matter how big or small, we want to hear them all as we work towards updates in the coming weeks and months.

Thank you!
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I'll probably add more stuff later on but here's what I want so far...

1. A "Light theme".
2. The "Moderator" tag been more like the "Staff" one.
3. The sections been less cluttered and more meaningful. Which means fewer sections but more can be discussed in sections meant for it. So for example one section/place for videogames/consoles, one for news related to the gaming industry/leaks/stats etc., one for off-topic stuff like music/real life stuff and other misc. stuff, one for announcements, one for reporting issues/spam/trolling etc., a section for the staff/moderators, a section for Technology/PC stuff and probably other stuff that can be discussed if it's needed/makes sense or not but I think the sections for the current games and the sections for PlayStation/Xbox/Nintendo should be merged together and so should the section for GTA etc. be merged into one section about videogames/consoles but keep the 2 sections about leaks/rumors and the other one about news.
4. Been able to reply to multiple people besides been able to @ as many as you want to.
5. And if this isn't already a thing so would I also like the ability to be able to directly upload pictures to the site instead of using Imgur etc. and then having to embed them.
6. Add more useful stuff to this thing we use to make posts like more sites/media to embed for example, more smilies or other useful things.
7. Besides the Insider Gaming X account also make an X account about the latest threads from here (Insider Gaming forum) that a bot or something shares every time a new one gets made but make it so you guys or both the staff/moderators do control it and can delete the posts if a thread here on Insider Gaming gets locked or deleted.
8. Add a channel or what they do call it on Discord that's related to the Insider Gaming forum where members on this site can discuss all kinds of stuff and one just for the staff/moderators.

And that's it for now (y)
 
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