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Posted - 2011.04.10 13:54:00 -
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 Originally by: Turix
Originally by: CCP Navigator
Thread has been cleaned up a little.
I wanted to quickly address one or two concerns, specifically over personal information and logins. At no stage were other players able to access your login, passwords, payment details or real life information.
CCP Sreegs has already stated that he is writing a blog on this subject and this is one of the things he will cover.
This doesn't appear to be the issue most people are concerned about. There appears to be much more concern over the design style and decisions made when implementing the new forums; consensus seems to be that people simply don't like them (See the threads in General Discussion/Assembly Hall).
Though I really disliked new forums design decisions as well, let's be honest - there were lots of people who supported them. We have every right to despise their taste, do we have a right to force our taste over them ?
This controversy can be solved, however. Software in general and web applications in particular has a special blessing, they can be made configurable to a big extent, thus allowing user to choose what he wants. Almost any widely used forum software has lots of built-in opportunities for configuration.
Now, what new forums had? There were only a few configuration options, more exactly - only 3 options.
Guess what - none of them were working at all.
For me it is a glaring evidence that ability for a user to choose what he wants was a last priority for a forum team.
It is this mindset that scares me most of all. One may say, the team concentrated on things that are of an even bigger importance - stability and security. Well, now we all know what they achieved 
That leaves us a sad conclusion, already voiced many times. The main task of a forum team was a dumb marketing in its' most stinking form. To promote a useless and dieing Spacebook and chestbeat even more about the character portraits.
Make no mistake please, I think new portrait generator is a great thing and CCP has every right to be proud of it. But apparently they start to think it is a main core of the game... ????? 
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