The moderation team has recently been cracking down on off-topic and stream-of-conciousness type forum posts. While I fully support this move, I can’t help but wonder if it would crack down on this significantly if the site implemented some sort of “status update” feed for little mini posts that you could scroll through. It would provide a way to make mini posts that probably don’t deserve their own forum post “I’m working on these canards, check out the ft code I used” and would provide an outlet for the people that post random off topic stuff to lighten the load on moderators a bit. Also for the people that don’t want to see this they just don’t have to go to that section of the website. For an example of this, there’s the LTT forum status updates page.
I just use my bio thingy
The forums do have tags to be filtered by. Issue is, you can either get all or one.
Having more specific tags, and the ability to disable them individually (either simply by not searching, or blacklisting any post with it in the case of multitagged posts) would definitely make the site more usable.
At this point, I wish they were like: "I'm working on this canard check out the ft code I used" it's more like "[Insert forum spammer] factory explosion" and "I am about leaving my hotel", more like social media updates than a videogame forum
I 100% support this idea, especially because I have been doing something similar for a few years now. It could be implemented as a big button on everyone's bio, that upon pressing would redirect to that user's own special forum post that would include small posts in it, like a blog that the owner can make new posts in. Each inner post could have its own comment section and could be upvoted (not with the normal upvote type, but with the type that is currently used on comments, that small arrow that afaik doesnt give many points or none at all). Ot would give everyone their own little SP blog where they could post whatever they wish. There could maybe even a setting to receive notificarions if someone you follow posted something new in their blog, so you don't have to manually check all your favourite creators' pages