Topic: Ideas for the site.

@Tasuki You're assuming people read pop-ups?

@nessisonett Yeah I can remember you saying the other week when someone posted that they were 'told' to come here when they had a PS4 issue. You think people would notice by the time they have registered that the site is not affiliated with Sony. 🤷‍♂️

@JohnnyShoulder yeah, I've only been moving the PS4 related ones into the other forum as I figured it probably is most useful to have all PS5 related stuff in one forum for the time being (even the help ones).

That said, I think there is probably a better way to organise threads, rather than just forums. Organising them by platform and by category (help/discussion/news etc) would make it easier to filter things rather than a classic forum system.

Therefore I think I want to develop that idea further before re-organising the PS5 stuff if that's not too much of a pain? The long term goal will be to separate out the "help/faq" style stuff and the actual discussion threads as they are distinctly different.

@antdickens Perhaps we could just have a pinned thread for now in the PS5 section dedicated to issues with the console? It’s useful to collect them in one place as there are people still deciding whether to get a launch model or wait until the kinks are ironed out.

@nessisonett It's a nice idea in theory, but new users (especially those just looking for help) would never look through a thread of issues to find their problem, so different threads is fine for now, we'll just re-categorise them into 'help' at some point in the near future.

@antdickens OK yeah that is cool. Makes sense to leave them where they are for now. Thanks for getting back to me!

When ignoring a user, any threads that they created also seem to disappear. I don't like this behaviour, since if a user has made a popular thread, then it's a big inconvenience to ignore them.

For example, let's say I wanted to ignore the creator of the Chit Chat thread (it's just an example, I don't actually want to block this person). If I ignore them, then I'll also miss out on all the lovely conversations going on in the Chit Chat thread.

I'd prefer it if threads of ignored people still show up, just without that person's comments in it.

@crimsontadpoles thanks for the suggestion, however we believe that it's far more likely that people do want to hide threads by users they have ignored. The chance of the people being ignored are the same people creating popular threads is quite low.

@antdickens That's fair enough. Thanks for responding.

@antdickens Hello... Ant.

@TheIdleCritic Hello... TheIdleCritic.

Hello... Newman.

How about having a message or something when new users create an account saying that we are not an official Sony site It's getting annoying seeing all these new threads from people either asking this site to fix a problem or make a game when clearly we are not Sony.

Can we have more game developers interviews i really enjoy them

@get2sammyb @antdickens I would like to make a dedicated Happy Birthday thread in General Discussion, would this be allowed? I know there's the general chit chat thread, but I think it'd be nice if people's birthdays weren't lost in the discussion.

Some people still treat their birthdays as very special days that should be celebrated and remembered every year fondly.

@KidBoruto sounds like a great idea to me, go for it!

@get2sammyb Looking at the community rules, it's alright to discuss past-gen emulation, but linking to sites that have the ROMs and such isn't okay. Would linking to a google doc for something like that be alright as a workaround? I'm thinking it might be a good idea to make a thread to start figuring out together here where to go for gaming history and how to emulate things since Sony is taking away so much history by shutting down the stores. It's a hard to thing safely navigate by yourself, so I'd love to gather together on the topic since our more legitimate avenues are being shut down. If not, I understand.