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The Forum Archetecture is quite old. Something which has nearly a decade of use is not easy to renovate and opening up a developer project to crack open established systems for the purposely of adding a link isn't a priority.

I realize it's funny in the meme-sense, but a button at the bottom of a page isn't the sherlock holmes clue that unravels the mystery.

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We've advertised Discord for years via our Game, News Portal, Contests, and even supported joining it with Drops/Free Content. There's a reason why it has some 170k people on it and continues to grow.

I renamed the title and set it to "Featured" to give greater visibility to this thread. This sounds like a nice project to be aware of, so giving it a bit of boost while there's time~

I would recommend you watch the Community Stream from yesterday. Here's a link that's about half-way through our talking about the Forum which is most relevant, but I can recommend watching through the discussion entirely.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1882510623?t=01h02m51s

We already have said it as directly as possible. As years go by, the internet changes and companies that use the internet have to shift to follow along. Somewhat like a hunter following the herd in days long past.

Reddit and Discord are both communication platforms that have hundreds/thousands of different communities which are accessible through a single interface. As Apps become more and more popular, that format has dominated. Our decision to embrace this as fully as possible is what we see as what must be done.

It sucks to move on from the happy hunting ground that is this place, but it is the nature of the situation.

It's really not. Others have pointed out that the expense for forum infrastructure is not high enough to break the bank simply for existing. The larger issue is that static-forums are not growing in the current internet environment, whereas the App-Consolidated formats are growing wildly. Our...

Extremely unlikely, I'm afraid. Official forums are just that: official. Leaving it in the hands of folks that don't work for us would be too great a liability.

I do want to say thank you to Paradat for the post and for joining us last night. It was particularly hard for Ahskance and myself to be the ones handling the hard news, but we cannot tell you how much we appreciate that so many of you shared your feelings and questions and hopes before leaving our stream on a positive note. It meant the world.

No, but he certainly enjoyed the heck out of it <3

It has been a pleasure to meet you, sir~ Thank you for your help with our Clan Battles the other day!

I've been in awe of your ability to communicate mechanics on touchy subjects like Homing Torpedoes. It's for damn good reason that your post on that has been Featured for who-knows-how-many-months now <3

and yes, I recall your surprise when I told you that your performance on CVs was abnormally good :D They really aren't easy to play well, but the Bearn is a beast in your hands!

Twitch saves streams that happen at the address of the channel with "/videos" at the end.

https://www.twitch.tv/worldofwarships/videos would be the link!

Captains!

The NA CMs will be live on Twitch later today. We'll of course be discussing the Forum Closure, so please bring your thoughts on the announcement as well as your memories of what we've shared together here.

No silly quip from me today~ We'll see everyone at 5pm CST over at https://www.twitch.tv/worldofwarships

Stay Strong, Tiger!

We do read Reddit! Since it's not an "official" platform (as in, we do not control/moderate it), we don't tend to post very much in there, but I assure you that Reddit activity makes up a substantial portion of the feedback reporting that we do.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't sad at the forums closing - I've been playing since 2015 and a lot of my early memories around Warships are tied to these forums. But, we really believe this is the right decision; as brought up in the other topics forums as a platform continue to see declining use as time goes on. We've read a lot of feedback here on the decision and we'll be looking to implement ways to make the Discord and other spaces more comfortable to use for people who are used to forum-style discussion.

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We'll certainly talk about it on the NA Community Stream this Wednesday.
I'll wear a Mr. Rogers sweater

For 1, as I mentioned earlier we will be using Discord's forum feature. If players wish to create ship reviews they can easily do so there. Regarding archiving, that's up to players and what they wish to personally save and/or transfer. For 2, if you're looking for a specific post in a normal discussion channel, the Discord search feature can easily provide this functionality by searching for author/date/keywords/etc.

I completely understand the viewpoint of not wanting to use a 3rd party app. However, trends have shown that more people are willing to do this and engage with Discord than continue to use the forums. The community team as a whole will absolutely be more focused on Discord, yes.

No, the decision has nothing to do with financials or cost cutting.

I will point you to any number of fan sites which already exist and cover Wargaming products: ...

To this point specifically - there's absolutely no issue if community members create their own forum platform. Again, this has nothing to do with shutting down discussion or obfuscating feedback.

This is purely a World of Warships team decision. The other products run their own channels as they see fit.

Number of posts and active users has been on a steady decline for years, compared to other platforms which have seen steady growth. It's not about whether the forums are used at all, but rather how much use they see relative to other platforms and where we as a team can best concentrate our efforts.

To clarify, this is not a cost cutting measure. Forums are in a general state of decline with regards to the level of engagement they receive and the number of people who interact with them. We spent a long time considering and discussing this internally and feel it makes more sense for us to concentrate our efforts and support on Discord. It's a painful decision and there are absolutely significant differences between the platforms; that said, we'll be using the forum feature on Discord to provide a somewhat similar experience.
To the comments regarding this as a move to obfuscate feedback - I assure you that nothing of the sort is intended. We catalogue and report on Discord discussions and feedback and there are dedicated, highly visible spaces to have discussions on and provide feedback for game changes. I highly encourage all of you to leave feedback there for us :)
As mentioned in the announcement itself, the forums will be available to read for months to come;...

The NA, EU, and SEA WoWs Forums are all closing, yes

The Forums will be closing soon as we transition to Discord. Learn more in this dedicated article!

Read it on the portal

I had originally thought it increased Depth Charge explosion radius as well by the wording of the skill, but it doesn't. It affects HE (and AP/SAP too, I suppose) in terms of "Ammunition".

A new ship branch is now available for players to research. Let's talk about the features of this branch. Read it on the portal