Website & Forums Shoutbox

Yeah, i think this thread was a dead-end, they're obviously not going to add back no matter how many good arguments we come up with since they're just going to ignore them.

The changing of polls was a dick move tho, whoever did that is human garbage and deserves to be demoted.

 

Don't stop beeeeeeeeeliving!

 

I’m pretty sure most of us will be leaving if they lock this thread or we give up

 

It's pretty sad that the people of power in the community are operating on a 'Maybe if we ignore it, it will go away' basis for valid arguments.

 

GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY

 

bro its meme night

 

I already stopped playing the game after the whole xp fiasco.

 

Memes aside, I've compiled seven reasons why the shoutbox didn't have to get removed. I'd like to hear the admin's defense as well, if possible.

1: The shoutbox was not useless. It could be used to quickly ask for help without needing to make a thread, and new posts were displayed in the shoutbox. It functioned as a public never to be locked thread, which is extremely useful for announcements.

2: Emotional attachment. Many people keep things like their first pair of shoes or the first videogame they beat because of it. You don't have to throw old stuff away to make room for new things.

3: Uniqueness. Neither the forums for Minecraft, Terraria, The Witcher 3, League of Legends, Dota 2, Cities: Skylines, Factorio, ARK: Survival Evolved, Fallout, Garry’s Mod, Ubisoft, Skyrim, Stardew Valley, Tomb Raider, Besiege, Bioshock, Hypixel or Cubecraft have a shoutbox. And that's not counting the the games whose forums are on Steam, which by default don’t have a shoutbox.

4: It was completely unannounced. I could not find any official thread by a staff member about the new community tab. Only Aarontti said anything about it, but he left the Wynn team over a month before. This implies the shoutbox's removal was done unsolicited and by a staff member with barely any experience. The continued radio silence doesn’t help the staff's position on the matter either.

5: Using Discord as a replacement is terrible. It's less easily accessible for new users and it requires a separate program, which some people might not be willing or able to use. Removing the shoutbox and telling people to migrate to Discord isn't a harmless move: you're not moving people over, you're reducing our means of communication.

6: The sidebar isn't full. When the community showcase was added, the shoutbox didn't have to go. The only forums I could find with a shoutbox were the Undertale Forums, which didn't even have a sidebar. Instead, they used a pop-up box at the bottom of the screen.

7: The shoutbox was a source of entertainment, not to be taken too seriously. On the Wynncraft forums, threads aren't supposed to be low-effort and useless. The only place where you could shitpost and truly say anything you want is your profile and the VIP Plaza. Removing the shoutbox could potentially be seen as locking it behind a paywall, because you'd have to buy VIP.

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Also, I heard something happened to the poll. Can anyone explain what?

 

nice meme

 

Another reason: school wifi blocks discord, but not the website so SB is nice to have if u don't have data or a vpn

 

I mean I guess I won't reach them if I don't tag them.
@colin350 , you're part of the Website Team. Do you know how and why the shoutbox got deleted?

 

Finally, someone being serious instead of endless memes and shitposting :P

 

Some mod changed the voting option to say "no" instead of "yes"

 

There's been too many non-meme posts in a row. I better fix that

 

Remember Geblin? The one who always says "something something add craftedmovie 2" every day no matter how little impact it has?
This situation reminds me of that one, only there were less reasons for removing the old thing (Craftedmovie took lots of time and effort: using it on wynncraft? That's a proper reason, not something like "just go to a more popular channel that makes worse videos") and more people are reacting to the removal.

Furthermore, it's not even a problem, you can easily re-add shoutbox.

If there's not enough space for it, I have a solution:
You know how the themes always have the 4 "buttons" that take you to profile, conversations, alerts or log you out? Add a 5th one that makes the shoutbox appear! That way, you can use it anywhere!

 

Hmm, it's probably gonna be tricky to implement since it would require a lot of stress-testing on many different areas of the website.

 

what i meant is that it hasnt been talked about anywhere else, the only people who have seen it are active in this thread
also given the situation i doubt they will do anything about it lol

 

*screams in shoutbox*

 

That dog really doesn't want to be there.

 

I can see why