One Major Forum Issue

Desolate_Hybrid_legacy

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One Major Forum Issue

#1

05-14-2012, 06:26 PM

I would like to address the log-in issue many of us are experiencing (or have had experience with).
I know this has been addressed in other topics, particularly the Forum Fixer-Upper thread started by =LEVIATHEN=. However, nothing has been done about it. As you may (or may not) have noticed, but I have been completely absent from the forums for a few months. Why? Because the system would not let me log-in. As a community member, this is very aggravating and rejecting. Why should I try to be a member of this community when the dedicated forum will not even let members log-in? If they do not have working forums, then why should I care about it? Why should I try to be involved?

This is a deterrent for new members especially and defeats the purpose of having a community in the first place.

Something needs to be done about this.
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Garbarsardar

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#2

05-14-2012, 06:33 PM

It's just a testament to how EA handles everything. Sloppy delivery and no support after the first year
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05-14-2012, 06:53 PM

Law of conservative EA forum fail. Unfortunately the old forums are gone so I can't get the original thread but it goes something like this:

"EA forum fail can neither be created nor destroyed, only changed from one form to another."

Although I wasn't at the old, old forums I've heard embedding videos didn't work, in the old forums there were no avatars and here there are login troubles and the smilies suck. It's a law of nature. There is nothing we or they can do about it.
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05-14-2012, 08:42 PM

Originally posted by Klandri View Post

Law of conservative EA forum fail. Unfortunately the old forums are gone so I can't get the original thread but it goes something like this:

"EA forum fail can neither be created nor destroyed, only changed from one form to another."

Although I wasn't at the old, old forums I've heard embedding videos didn't work, in the old forums there were no avatars and here there are login troubles and the smilies suck. It's a law of nature. There is nothing we or they can do about it.

If we can't break nature's law, we have to break nature and replace it so we can dictate new laws. Easy peasy.
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05-14-2012, 09:00 PM

Originally posted by Feloidea View Post

If we can't break nature's law, we have to break nature and replace it so we can dictate new laws. Easy peasy.

I like your thinking.
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05-14-2012, 10:02 PM

Originally posted by Feloidea View Post

If we can't break nature's law, we have to break nature and replace it so we can dictate new laws. Easy peasy.

I call for a total forum reformation!
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#7

05-15-2012, 01:35 AM

I was talking to our web team every once in a while and they are always asking for "what are the user specs"

So i need your OS and browser please Once i got a bigger bunch here that cannot login, i can actually task the web team with it.
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#8

05-15-2012, 03:07 AM

Originally posted by EA_CIRE View Post

I was talking to our web team every once in a while and they are always asking for "what are the user specs"

So i need your OS and browser please Once i got a bigger bunch here that cannot login, i can actually task the web team with it.

Windows 7 64 bit. Mozilla FireFox, currently version 12, but in many previous versions as well.
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05-15-2012, 04:41 AM

Originally posted by EA_CIRE View Post

I was talking to our web team every once in a while and they are always asking for "what are the user specs"

So i need your OS and browser please Once i got a bigger bunch here that cannot login, i can actually task the web team with it.

Windows 7 32 bits. Currently using Chrome but it doesnt work for all the other brwosers installed (IE, Firefox and Opera last versions).
But why don't the devs do the test themeselves on their machines ? Are they just too lazy ??? I mean it's such an obvious and significant problem that has been discussed for moths in many topics and still not a single update
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Existion

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#10

05-15-2012, 05:38 AM

Windows 7 32 bit. I use Chrome (sometimes IE when I can't log in w/ Chrome).

Originally posted by BogoX View Post

But why don't the devs do the test themeselves on their machines ? Are they just too lazy ??? I mean it's such an obvious and significant problem that has been discussed for moths in many topics and still not a single update

I'm not one to answer this (he says as he replies), but I think that that is CIRE's job.
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#11

05-15-2012, 06:03 AM

Wait people are still having trouble logging in?
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05-15-2012, 06:20 AM

Originally posted by HOPE1134 View Post

Wait people are still having trouble logging in?

Yes, I currently use a work-around, but it's annoying.
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kaneswrath1

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05-15-2012, 06:42 AM

You mean go to a random thread and click "reply with quote" to log in?
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Desolate_Hybrid_legacy

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05-15-2012, 08:38 AM

Originally posted by HOPE1134 View Post

You mean go to a random thread and click "reply with quote" to log in?

Yep. For new members, it can be very destructive to the community we have been building.
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#15

05-15-2012, 10:16 AM
Originally posted by EA_CIRE View Post

I was talking to our web team every once in a while and they are always asking for "what are the user specs"

So i need your OS and browser please Once i got a bigger bunch here that cannot login, i can actually task the web team with it.

OS are:
Linux Mint, 12.

Ubuntu, 11.10 and 12.04.

Debian GNU/Linux, squeeze and wheezy.

Windows, 7.

Browsers:
Firefox.

Iceweasel (aka Debian Firefox).

Epiphany (WebKit).

Lynx.
Last edited by Dukat863; 05-15-2012, 10:22 AM.
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