WHAT ASPECTS OF THE SITE DO YOU USE MOST? LEAST?

Heh, well, I don't really think everything needs to be moved back to the forums, but I do kind of think there needs to be less clutter on the site. It's become extremely bloated.

I don't want you to close reviews, for example. I just think that having a list of the lastest reviews for all games is pointless clutter that distracts and overwhelms people and keeps them from getting to the parts of the site that matter.

I mean, if we had dozens of games, then sure, I could understand a feed of everything from all games. But we don't. We have thousands.

I agree with and use these a lot:

-The frontpage big cycle banner
-Featured game spotlights
-The gamespots on the frontpage
-The buzzing newsfeed
-Buzzing games system
-Latest screenshots
-Random screenshots
-The Games portal
-Gameprofiles
-Reviews
-Blogs
-Game Images
-All Game Updates feed
-The notification system
-The ability to comment on nearly everything
-The various game development submissions like Articles, Tutorials, Scripts, Utilities/Plugins and Resources.
-User profiles (with the showase games, submission and post histories, and user statuses)
-Donation perks
-the footer


And these occasionally:

-RMN TV
-The Locker


Just found out about these:

-Development spotlights + history
-The development portal
-Dropbox integration
-The new Playlists - what/where is that?
-Image feedback


When I'm looking for new games I go to the "full games list" and do some custom searches. When looking for new posts I simply check on the place I'm looking for the new posts (oldschool way!). And I use the google search bar.

Image feedback sounds like a great idea! I find a lot of good stuff (articles, tutorials) in "Scripts, Utilities, Plugins and Resources".

I always look for the new stuff on the main page and check that stuff out.

author=Marrend
Anybody else mess with setting up a playlist?

I didn't even know playlists existed.

There should be some filter option where you can filter by year,
this would make it easier to know which games could be nominated for
awards.

That would probably work out just fine for me - I don't use the dropdowns at all, just the portal indexes.

The Programming and Plugins subforum, and by extension the scripting options. More on that here.

Pretty sure you can turn that off, kory - the notices.

Buzzing is based on people downloading/commenting/reviewing/etc the game. It naturally depletes over time and we do manually deplete sometimes, but when there's a lot of activity on a game page it earns that buzz. Deliberately excluding a game just because it's no longer 'relevant' or because it annoys people to see it there is wrong, especially when it picks up steam again after depletion. Some games are going to be popular - that's just fact.

Besides, Pom's been gone for about a week now. Get with the times, man. ;p

I use the Community Portal and IRC.

My home page for RMN is the Community Portal so it's my first stop, page-wise, but the first thing I do is check notices and mail, then check the community page and see what's going on.

It does depend what day it is as to what I do next, though. I'll have a look through the SubQ most days after checking forum posts, sort through them a little, then move on to whatever is next on my list. If it's the 1st or 16th of the month, make a BoB article by checking the blogs, if it's a Thursday (Wednesday American time) I'll check out the blogs, reviews, articles and media for front page stuff.

If anything needs attention from a manager, I'll check on that via the Admin panel, otherwise just bounce on the forum every now and then. I only visit the front page if I need to check to see that frontpage items worked okay (and that I haven't broken it) or if I want to check on certain things like New and Notable or current Buzzing section. Otherwise I stick to the community page.

Oh, and if it's time for podcast, I'll search all over the place for stuff that's been going on. And if there's an event I'm running/taking part in, I'll check that page out. And if I happen to see a cool game or something on the front page on the few times I check it out, I'll check that out. Usually in the latest downloads section, since I see all the new games already on the site, so I know what those are.

I'd never visit the bare forums if it weren't a link at the bottom of some threads, where I'm too lazy to scroll back to the top of the page. No, seriously.

I say combine the two (or make Community the default, with an opt-out for those who just want the forums bare).

But for me the most used feature is the black bar and the shortcut bar, as well as posting in the forums themselves. ;p

Also the Edit button. I use the fuck out of that.

I've edited this post four five times now. >.<;