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6/2/2013 9:15:12 AM
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When did Bungie.net become Reddit?
Okay, so admittedly I haven't been on this site in a couple of years.
But goddamn.
Are any other oldfags still lurking around able to explain just what the hell happened here? My impression seems to be that Bungie are so psyched for Destiny they've swept Halo under the rug. Now, fair enough, Destiny is going to be awesome. But seriously, the forums have practically disappeared, and a slightly less popular version of Reddit seems to have taken its place.
This is not a thread for you kids to rage at me and declare your undying love for Bungie, whose virgin honour you will defend to your last dying breath. I simply want to know if there is any legitimate reason why this site has changed so drastically and, in my opinion, to such a worse state of affairs.
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Since you haven't been around for a while, let me give you a tip. Go to your profile settings, then display settings, then click on "Go Dark". It makes it feel a lot more like Bungie.Old then it does Reddit.
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I have a feeling that if tags didn't include the hash symbol people wouldn't make the connection with Twitter.
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Bungie is entirely focused on Destiny, and with a new site was needed.
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This is how it was for me lol.
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1 ReplyEdited by Spawn: 6/2/2013 2:13:46 PM[url=http://www.bungie.net/en-us/Forum/Post?id=60514114&path=1]Link to post[/url] [quote][b]Posted by[/b]: Achronos Because the old style of forums didn't scale. I'm not talking technically, I'm talking in terms of interaction. At each Halo game's height, the forums were just basically white noise. You make a topic, and it was already on page 3 of the forums. Thousands upon thousands of posts, with people saying the same things but not really communicating. We decided that we had to stop pretending that the "standard way" of doing forums would be okay for a game of Destiny's scale. Remember, this web site is designed for a game that you really don't know anything about yet. Anyway, that's the best way of describing why this site is designed as it is. It may seem strange right now, but when traffic jumps up, it will matter. We are aware it takes getting used to, but we didn't do it on a whim, and we're constantly watching various metrics and will adjust things accordingly (as you have already seen). But so far, we feel that our decisions have been generally on target with our goals. The biggest missing piece of the puzzle not related to the game is group functionality, but we'll get to that.[/quote] And by the way, most of [url=http://www.bungie.net/7_The-Age-of-Our-Community/en-us/Forum/Post?id=60546863#referred-Community]the community is older than you think ;-)[/url]
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Edited by Kickimanjaro: 6/2/2013 1:09:15 PMWell, this site has always been a hub from which their latest game has prospered. With the old Bungie.net that was Halo Stat Tracking, with Destiny we don't really know how much the site will be integrated. With the new forum design we can create our own forums, so this could potentially allow for some interesting collaboration within Destiny (organizing a massive raid on the Moon, for example), but other than that I don't really know what the future holds. It's shiny, and it's different, and sometimes change is good. It was admittedly hard to get used to though. Most important thing to note is that tags aren't really tags like they are used on Twitter but more like posting something in various sub-reddits.
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Bungie said there pretty much sorry, but are trying new things. hopefully a change will be made..
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To adjust to the incoming flood of members after Destiny's release.
