Bethesda.net, Bethesda's new forums REBOOT Options

[Renee]

Just a heads up, for those who don't know, but still participate over at Beth. They're going to be making new forums, and from what I'm hearing, a lot of things are going to get demolished. Usernames, post counts, stars .... all of that is going to be started over. Actually, here, I'll just let Gstaff explain ...

Hi

We’re still in kicking the tires on Bethesda.net, and are very excited about the progress we’re making on the forums. We believe you guys will be happy with the changes and new features they will offer.

There are a few things worth noting at this time:

1) Usernames and posts will not be ported over. We will give folks a heads up as we get closer to the forum launch date so you can ready for the transition and claim your preferred username.

2) We will not transition all of our forums over at once. We want to make sure we’re testing functionality on the forums and gathering feedback from folks like you.

3) As forums transition over to Bethesda.net we plan to archive the existing forums so that folks can reference back to old posts.

Moving is never easy – there will be adjustments and we hope that you’ll pardon the dust as we all get used to our new digs. Knowing the longstanding efforts, love and attention, and general awesomness I’ve seen from all of you, I expect bigger and better things for everyone on the Bethesda.net forums.

Much more to come!

Personally I could care less about my username, my post count, my stars, all of that stuff. I was worried I would lose all my old posts there, the stories, the good times, but apparently #3 takes care of that. They're supposed to archive the old forums, which means all our ("Our", assuming you participated over at Beth) posts are going to be okay, we just won't be able to participate in old threads. PMs are also not getting ported over, but those are easy to archive, of course.

So in essence, we're all getting the banhammer over at Beth. yuk yuk. It's all good though.

[ghastley]

They won't find out what wrong until they launch them, so the big questions are whether they listen, and whether they can fix what we report as broken. I think the Jive stuff was hard to fix, rather than Beth weren't listening, so I'm hopeful.

[Callidus Thorn]

They won't find out what wrong until they launch them, so the big questions are whether they listen, and whether they can fix what we report as broken. I think the Jive stuff was hard to fix, rather than Beth weren't listening, so I'm hopeful.

Except that they know they're missing features that they should have, because they plan to add them later. They even say as much in the thread over at Bethsoft. This thing reminds me of the start of Star Trek Generations. I'm wondering if one of the Moderators is going to be unable to log in or something because some important feature won't be active until tuesday

[Kane]

They won't find out what wrong until they launch them, so the big questions are whether they listen, and whether they can fix what we report as broken. I think the Jive stuff was hard to fix, rather than Beth weren't listening, so I'm hopeful.

Except that they know they're missing features that they should have, because they plan to add them later. They even say as much in the thread over at Bethsoft. This thing reminds me of the start of Star Trek Generations. I'm wondering if one of the Moderators is going to be unable to log in or something because some important feature won't be active until tuesday

The medical staff....doesn't arrive until Tuesday.