Megathreads: Good or Bad?

[Zurvan]

Oh gawd we'll have Jap Chapter X spoilers, Jap Chapter X no-spoilers, Eng Chapter Y spoilers, Eng Chapter Y no-spoilers

Do I want to know what we'll do with events

[Snow]

Answer 1: don't play grand order
Answer 2: indexes would probably exist to navigate to where you want to be

[Zurvan]

Answer 1 is trash since thats what I'm doing

[Cruor]

I dislike the idea of spreading things out even chapter-by-chapter since it means eventually you'll have to go back pages in the subforum to find older stuff (and even that's a hassle), things that meander away will have issues (if something relevant to one thread is talked about due to its relevance in another, which does it go in, and which am I scrounging through to find if that point comes up again?), people are inevitably gonna post in a wrong thread or new people will make a new thread or all sorts of things and directing them to the right one becomes a pain...

Yeah, really to me it'd just be completely fine to go with megathreads if the search function weren't borked. Otherwise I suppose you could divide it down a tad but too much and you're just going to have an increase of little problems.

I think chapter by chapter can be more efficient as it handles the issue of search being borked and not being able to search for the latest info. But yeah I agree if the search function simply worked normally this wouldn't be as much of an issue.

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The issue with numerous threads for me is that, all the time, something is going to be related to something else
So you're going to get Extella info in your GO threads and other stuff because everything in the Nasuverse is pretty much linked
Having separate threads means you have to remember more places where specific info or previous discussion could have taken place
At the very least for the GD and GO megathreads, if you go through google search and specify the megathread, more than 50% of the time, you can find what you're looking for.

Well my problem with that is that's a stretch to tell noobs to do that. And its p easy for you to have a better general idea of finding what you want if you know the general locations for stuff (like say if I wanted to read posts from back when Washington or Camelot came out I'd have to sift through dozens of pages of characters being mentioned that wasn't relevant for what I'm looking for).

How much work would need to be done to even fix the search function and would it be feasibly be able to be done without fucking up anything is a question to be brought up as well.

I'll be honest in that I've never looked through a megathread even once except for the op or latest posts cause of how daunting the huge amount of pages of shit there is in one so I wouldn't miss them in the slightest.

I actually asked Hidari this. I always thought it was thread size that caused the search function breaking (and it is to a small extent). The real villain though is thread merges. Apparently thread merges is what caused the search function to get borked. I don't think the mods should use thread merge now, just lock and be done with it >_>;;;. And they don't know how to fix it? At least that's the impression I got.

This is my main issue with megathreads as well. Also it's extremely hard to use them for reference if you weren't present when posts you need were made. Questions in particular has grown to the point where sifting through for general info to use for stuff like fanfics is not really feasible, you have to know specifically what you're looking for and when writing a fic that...rarely happens.

Doesn't multiple threads just compound that issue? If you don't know which thread has what your looking for you have to look through all of them.

I mean I'd rather just encourage them to ask the question again rather then allowing people to say 'read the thread'.

[Megas]

Answer 1: don't play grand order
Answer 2: indexes would probably exist to navigate to where you want to be

Ya if we keep an index thread than I prefer individual threads as opposed to megathreads.

The question is who will upkeep the index.

[Cruor]

Oh gawd we'll have Jap Chapter X spoilers, Jap Chapter X no-spoilers, Eng Chapter Y spoilers, Eng Chapter Y no-spoilers

Do I want to know what we'll do with events

Events getting a thread is fine. And eventually the chapter will be pushed off the page.

[Five_X]

Ya if we keep an index thread than I prefer individual threads as opposed to megathreads.

The question is who will upkeep the index.

Rabidly dedicated fans with nothing else to do? I don't think TM has any of those, no, that's silly...

[Zurvan]

This is the road to a Golden nickname

Mods, I have come to bargain

[Five_X]

Zurvan more like Zzzzzzzzzz

[Zurvan]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[R.Lock]

Ya if we keep an index thread than I prefer individual threads as opposed to megathreads.

The question is who will upkeep the index.

Snow.

[Snow]

I'm sure it could be arranged for a few grand order forum enthusiasts to volunteer for this social service!

[Draconic]

Depending on what's required, I'd probably be happy to volunteer for something like that. Though I've begun to worry lately that I may be taking on too many projects at once...

[Nikiri]

This is the road to a Golden nickname

meh

I would rather have glowing blue nickname

[Zurvan]

I mean, I though golden might be possible, but it seems not

Yorokobe Nikiri

[Neir]

Megathreads just eat up all of the discussion and make it so nobody participates unless they live in that thread 24/7.

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[Spinach]

I'm fine with them personally but they aren't conductive to attractive new posters.

[Rafflesiac]

What about ugly new posters?

[Five_X]

Well, when we've got big ugly threads...

[Zurvan]

Aren't we still seen as the biggest elitist snobs of Nasuverse communities anyway?