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Guild Wars 2 Forum: The Library - Guild Wars 2 Discussion
Stephane Lo Presti.7258
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Welcome to The Library, a sticky thread that will help get all the useful and important sticky threads from the Guild Wars 2 Discussion forum in one place! Over the years these threads have accumulated at the top of this subforum and we thought that we'd try simplifying their management. You can suggest new threads to add and we'll consider them.
General
- About the On Wiki Of Gold project
- [News] Gemstore items: new/returned/sales
- GEMSTORE REQUESTS: New Items; Items offered again
- [Suggestions]QoL (Quality of Life) Ideas
About the Guild Wars 2 Forums
How to Give Good Feedback: Important tips on communicating with devs and other forum members
- How to Communicate with the Forums Team (Appeals, PMs, E-mails): How to get in touch so we can answer your questions
- FAQ about Using the Forums: Need to figure out a forum feature? Having trouble with a functionality issue? Let us know in this thread.
- Forum Moderation and Infraction System: How we manage the forum with a detailed description of the infraction system
- How to Report Cheaters or Exploiters: Instructions on the most effective way to let us know about cheating incidents
Stéphane Lo Presti
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Neat. I love libraries
HARRY! DIDYA PUT YER NAME IN DA GOBLET OF FIYAH?!
Great initiative, @Stephane Lo Presti.7258.
To make sure this works in the long run, it needs to be reviewed|refreshed from time to time (more often than yearly, less often than monthly). What's the best way to help y'all make that happen?
Hype is the path to the dark side. Hype leads to unfulfilled expectations. Disappointment leads to anger. Anger leads to disgust. Disgust leads to "oh, new shinies! I'm back!"
It seems some of the aforementioned threads are still Stickied; unlike the other sub-forums.
May I ask what is the best way to suggest a thread to be stickied? I have a few in mind which might be useful.
We can't commit to a particular timeline but that's the plan overall!
Yes we made the decision to include them in the 2 places because they seem to be popular, so we didn't want to inconvenience players.
You can post here, but we're not committing to increasing the list unless there's something significant to add.
Stéphane Lo Presti
Content Marketing Manager
Errr... It feels very pointless to have a "Library" topic if you are keeping most old sticked topics there. They're (still) adding a lot of clutter to the main forum's page.
There's also a massive lack of consistency on the way those topics are titled. We have:
Would have been nice to have more consistency.
"Tomorrow my master chokes on his own whip!" - Lore of Skaen, PoE
I think this thread should be Stickied: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/269/ (It's the Forum Feedback/Bug thread linked on the front page of the Forum.)
I had totally forgotten that was a way to find it, and most others probably miss that imbedded link, as well.
This is a good idea and I added it. I'm also unsticking the bottom 3 General threads (Gemstore items, GEMSTORE REQUESTS, QoL) because it's currently crowded, but I will probably sticky them back.
Stéphane Lo Presti
Content Marketing Manager
Please do re-sticky the daily Gemstore news thread. Now to find out what's in the store when I can't get to my computer I have to click on this Library thread, click on the news link, click on the last page number, and scroll all the way down. That's an awful lot of effort and load times on a tablet or phone. When it's stickied, all I do is click on the last page number (and then scroll). I would think you guys would want people to easily find out about things on sale so they get excited and go spend on gems
For now you can bookmark it and there will be a notification noted on the globe icon each time it is updated and the notification takes you directly to that update.
Don't you have to be logged in for that? It sounds like the person is not logged in on the tablet or phone.
Yes, but I suppose being logged in on the tablet or phone is an option unless they are borrowing someone else's or don't trust being logged in on the device for some reason. If they can't log in on the device for some reason then yes it won't help.
Exactly this, I will not put my game password on my mobile devices. If the forum password were its own thing, sure, but I am keenly aware that phones and tablets are not secure. So no financial passwords, no game account passwords. Anyway, the News thread has been of great value and almost flawlessly maintained, so I'm surprised at it being unstickied.
When it's a sticky I can quickly tell friends what it is and how to find it. When it's more complicated as described above, sure I can do it when I feel like it but it's not so easy to convince readers unaccustomed to using it to go to the bother. I'm sure ANet's losing some sales by letting it slip out of convenient view.
The forum is looking MUCH better now. Those stickied topics were crowding the front page too much.
"Tomorrow my master chokes on his own whip!" - Lore of Skaen, PoE
Is there any way to force this link to open to the first post instead of #latest?
Edit: Meaning for 'this' thread, not in general.
The way it is now, it opens to the latest posts, rather than the links in the first post.
In the event I don't get a chance, thank you all for the company and help when I needed it from time to time.
Agreed. Finding the gemstore news thread is taking longer and longer ... have to get to this thread, scroll to top, click on desired link, scroll to bottom. If the News link takes me to the top of the last News page, surely this link can take me to the top of this one. (Or, y'know, we could just get the News thread stickied again so one can tell at a glance that something new has been posted in it).
An easy way to open this particular thread at the first post is to click the 'ArenaNet' icon, instead of the thread title.
There used to be a Sticky on topics such as 3rd-party apps and the use of macros, etc. I think it was a compilation of several thread dealing with policy on some issues; I can't find it. And the link to it I found in another thread yields a "Permission Problem".
Perhaps, we could have that back, as well.
Edit: I found the Macro Use thread, but not the 'library' thread it was in.
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/65554/policy-macros-and-macro-use
Oh, never mind. I forgot it was its own sub-forum now. Silly me.
Thank you so much for re-sticking the Gemstore News thread! That thing is relevant daily, it really helps to have it immediately findable.
Way too many sticked topics again. This topic, ironically, is mostly dead weight - since all the "general" topics are already sticked, this doesn't have much of a purpose.
If this topic will continue to be sticked, then the one about the "Wiki of Gold" project and the one about quality of life suggestions should be unsticked. Neither are the kind of thing people would try to find over and over again.
"Tomorrow my master chokes on his own whip!" - Lore of Skaen, PoE
I disagree that it's way too many -- five of them don't fill up the screen. At least not on a monitor. I do agree that I don't need to come in here, now that the three useful stickies are where they should be. (For me those are: prime importance Gemstore News, useful for devs and to help keep down excessive individual threads Gemstore Suggestions and QoL Suggestions).
But this thread is a useful spot to hold all the rules info. Just as with the Suggestions listed above, it's one link to point folks to if they need the knowledge.
Were the Gem Store, and other, Stickies un-stickied again?
Or more Vanilla shenanigans?
Probably some time next week, as I want to give the Special Live Event thread bigger visibility for a while.
Stéphane Lo Presti
Content Marketing Manager
Ahh, I thought that might be the case.
Thanks for responding.
So Known Issues Tracker wasn't deemed worthy of place.. figures as no one seemed to consider it worthwhile keeping upto date any more.
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The Known Issue Tracker is not on the forums, but on the Guild Wars 2 Knowledge Base (and there's a big red notice on the tracker page about us working on fixing the tracker; a manual update of some Known Issues was added at the top). This thread is only for information on and related to the Guild Wars 2 forums.
Stéphane Lo Presti
Content Marketing Manager
The Known Issue Tracker is an important piece of documentation and absolutely should be included within the Forum if only to provide a direct link to it on the Knowledge Base.. but that doesn't even work when you click on it
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Isn't that because of the external link bug? That's a Vanilla issue rather than an Anet fault
Or am I misunderstanding (likely after today)
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Already such a thing: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/73409/guild-wars-2-forum-the-library-bugs-game-forum-website
And, as for links: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/comment/992547/#Comment_992547
Inc, I know where it is.. and I know of the issue with Vanilla.
The point I was making was that it is an important document that needs to be front and centre .. The Known Issue Tracker is in itself a library.
Currently it is even more important to have it when there is a broken Vanilla issue
Life is what YOU make it... NOT what others tell you!
I think the point Cedo was making is that the first link they provided is the front and centre of the bugs forum. It brings together all the stickies/useful links for bugs and problems (including the known tracker) in the same way this one does for general suggestions and the other subforums do for theirs.
So it basically already is one of the library links - it's just in the more appropriate subforum
What sleep is here? What dreams there are in the unctuous coiling of the snakes mortal shuffling. weapon in my hand. My hand the arcing deathblow at the end of all things. The horror. The horror. I embrace it. . .
Exactly. Each sub-forum has its own 'Library'.
Does this qualify https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/271/art-issues-characters-weapons-armor ?
Edit: Sorry saw that each sub-forum as it's own lirary
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