Read moreDuring the forums downtime, we have found that Reddit and other social networks have served the Dauntless community well. Having fewer, concentrated platforms where Slayers of all experiences and skills can congregate fosters better conversation and makes for a better community.
I disagree completely here. This is stupid.
The forums were the BEST way for feedback and bug reports, it allowed this sub to be less serious. I 100% preferred the forums, as did MANY people. We have made do, because we were led to believe they would return when you originally took them down, and you sought out our feedback on here.
The forums were my preferred way of submitting feedback, and allowing us to manage bugs for you far easier. Since the "temporary" removal of the forums, I have not once looked at the Bug thread. I just looked now, an...
I appreciate you taking the time to write this up, hopefully I can shed some light on the decision. Once we took the forums down, we had a full investigation on bringing them back up (hence u/Liquid0range's post from a while back). We explored our options and possible solutions, but ultimately we chose not to bring the forums back.
This was not an easy decision and definitely not our first, but from historical experience with forums (both with Dauntless and previous game companies we have worked at), we have concluded that the costs of running forums and managing them wouldn't provide us the best outcome. It would begin to hinder the growth of our other social platforms, making it unfair to everyone if we started ignoring one platform over another.
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