Topic: Ideas for the site

I'd like to bring attention to a very small issue that has kind of bugged me ever since I noticed it.

I usually like to scroll through the comments I've made from time to time to reminisce on my time here (and honestly to give me a bit of an ego trip at points XD) and something that has bothered me about it is that it only shows up to a maximum of 15 pages (as shown here).

This means that earlier comments are basically banished to the aether unless I go out of my way to remember which articles I've commented under (which, when you been around for nearly a year, is very difficult to do as you could probably imagine).

This wouldn't bug me as much if it weren't for the fact that posts don't have this issue whatsoever (though it would be nice to have a way to go to a specific page without having to go through hundreds of others like what's done on forum threads).

I'm not sure what could necessarily be done about it since I imagine it would be quite difficult to implement that kind of site-wide change (plus the fact that I can't do coding to save my life) but if it was possible to do, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks for reading and I hope you have a great day

@Fizza Oh yeah that has always been a thing, for some reason lol.

I second @Fizza . It seems a little weird it keeps track of the total number of your comments (920 for me) but you can only scroll back through the last 750 comments (15 pages). I realize this probably only effects a few dozen of the most prolific commenters.

@Fizza In a forum thread, if you click/tap/hover-the-cursor on the page numbers, a prompt appears that says Click to jump to page and you can type the page number you want to jump to.

@WoomyNNYes I'm talking about looking at the 'Posts' section of your profile. The way it works in forums is what I was suggesting they could do for said section.

Life hack: you can change the number in the url to view older posts

I found a banned user who keep making another accounts after got banned again already swarming around here.
And nobody even realized the existence of that user but me.
Nintendolife staffs should be aware with some newbie users here as I found the exact same commentary style from their posts.
I have reported that case to moderator.

@Fizza I've made a quick fix for this... if you click on a page it will now show the following pages, so you can now at least get to the end, eg: https://www.nintendolife.com/users/Fizza/comments?page=29 Changing it to use the First/Prev Page X of XX Next/Last setup on the forums would be more effort so perhaps that will get changed at some point. Hopefully that does what you need for now

Less articles involving random Twitter comments, please.

It's an easy recipe for an article, I understand that: take some news, look on Twitter for negative comments and voila, you've created an article. But it's not good content, IMO. Just my opinion though. Maybe some people love reading stuff like that? I don't know...

Example:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/08/pokemon-gos-profess...

Wasn't it enough with the news about the new design? Why was it necessary to drag the Twitter stuff into it?

I get the relevance of an article when for example Nintendo or another game publisher writes something news worthy on Twitter. But comments from random users?

Edit: NVM, I re-read my comment, and it sounds like the old man yelling at the cloud meme. I just feel that it lowers the quality of the articles to either include or entirely base them on Twitter and/or Reddit comments.

@Quarth this is really a decision for the editorial team; however, whilst I can kind of see where you are coming from, we would want to share/include/cover the Nintendo community's reaction to certain news as part of our coverage, and one reasonably easy way to do that is looking at Twitter (along with our own comments and other social platforms).

Obviously, if you didn't want to read a story about what people think about it, the headline makes it pretty clear and you can skip over it as other people will find it interesting.

@antdickens Hey, just wanted to come in here and thank you for that hotfix regarding comment pages, it works great! Whilst I'm here though, I'd just like to alert you and your team to a small bug I found recently.

So do you remember a while back when I told you the video layout seemed to be acting funky? I think it's happened again since this time, the 'Subscribe to NLife' is presented as regular text (as seen here):

It's not much of a problem at all but something I thought I should bring attention to whilst I'm here anyway.

Also, just to make absolute sure: this is an image and not a video (sorry @Eel XD)

😶

@Fizza I was going to comment on this too. Glad someone else noticed it, but here's a real video showing it.

@antdickens "Obviously, if you didn't want to read a story about what people think about it, the headline makes it pretty clear and you can skip over it as other people will find it interesting."

Fair enough. I just think these articles hurts this site's reputation. Plus in the case of the article I linked, what if I was interested in reading the news regarding the changes in the game, not the Twitter "outrage"? Now it was mixed into one.

I love this site in many ways, just want to voice my opinion.

@Quarth yeah that's completely fair enough and feedback is always welcome. I don't think I would agree that they hurt the reputation but I can understand where you are coming from. Consider your opinion voiced!

@Rambler yeah, we will be "reviewing" (ahem) the review template/layout in the near future and likely they will be more like normal articles (which mini-reviews are) so watch this space.

@Fizza thanks, that should be fixed now!

@antdickens yep, it's fixed!

@antdickens Thanks!

I actually have two suggestions to discuss.

Suggestion #1

Is it possible to one day implement private messages on the site?

Reason being. Many times we need to share semi-sensitive information. I joined a group of 7 others for the Switch Online + Expansion Pack, and had to post my email then quickly delete the post before others could read it. Most ppl won't do anything stupid, but there's enough crazies out there to not want to leave a post like that up. Same for sharing passwords to online lobbies, etc.

I suppose PMs would potentially bring additional challenges, as they wouldn't be subject to the same moderation. However, most other sites manage just fine so I'm inclined to believe it's doable. Ignored and blocked members could be restricted from messaging each other. And any messages deemed in violation of community guidelines could always be reported.

Perhaps that's not the barrier- maybe it's just the amount of work it would take. Idk. But it is something I think there's a lot of demand for, as I've heard the request from numerous other members over the years.

Suggestion #2

So, you know how Steam allows members to showcase boxart for their favorite game, and display badges, that sort of thing? I think it would be pretty cool if NintendoLife members could similarly display a chosen boxart from your search database for their favorite Switch game. And maybe another for their most anticipated upcoming game. Badges could also be added to members profile page for others to see. Such as "5 year club", "10 year club", "10,000 posts", "Top Forum Contributor", etc.

Idk. Just some things for members to better personalize their profile, so that if I click on a member's profile I can, at a glance, get a jist of their preferences, tastes, and contributions as a member of the site.

@JaxonH I'd like to see both of those suggestions happen.