Spore Website/Forum Feedback Thread

An idea I had:
Graveyard Forum: We add the Graveyard forums so that threads that have gone without a post for 2 months are placed here, and locked. This will cut down on necroing and open up space! To get a thread out of the Graveyard, one must PM the Sporemaster that put it there with valid reasons as to moving it.

Great job, Sporemasters. You do an awesome job with the Forum!

I think the Tools page linked from the new MySpore pages should include a section for the community's API apps (QualitySpore, Spore Tournament, etc), or at least a link to the app gallery. Almost nobody's ever going to find the app gallery where it is now under Community->API->Gallery. Adding a link to the Tools page would help the community discover the apps people have made.

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I'd like to say that timezones are still not working for me properly. I can change them and they remain that way however they set back to default (GMT or whatever it is) after some time, be it a day or immediately after I reload a page.

I want to know where my old Spore profile box went that told me who was buddying me and who was using my creations. It sure wasn't perfect but it made me feel good to see my creations being used.

spacez52 wrote:I want to know where my old Spore profile box went that told me who was buddying me and who was using my creations. It sure wasn't perfect but it made me feel good to see my creations being used.

I second that comment.

BugSquash wrote:I think the Tools page linked from the new MySpore pages should include a section for the community's API apps (QualitySpore, Spore Tournament, etc), or at least a link to the app gallery. Almost nobody's ever going to find the app gallery where it is now under Community->API->Gallery. Adding a link to the Tools page would help the community discover the apps people have made.

*total agreement*

I would LOVE to see the 'Most Popular New GA adventures' separated from the 'Most Popular New Creatures', having it's OWN page instead of the MP GA mixed in with the MP NC! The GA's are overshadowing or overtaking the MPN page and makes it very difficult to see the creatures in-between the GA's, I think because of the dark blue backgrounds on the thumbnail images. It would be SO MUCH easier to view the creatures and the GA's if they both had their own page instead of being blended together. Thank you very much for considering this idea.

Kaidian wrote:

spacez52 wrote:I want to know where my old Spore profile box went that told me who was buddying me and who was using my creations. It sure wasn't perfect but it made me feel good to see my creations being used.

I second that comment.

You can still do this:

In the adress bar, type "www.spore.com/view/events/(YourUsernameHere)

The achivement stats need to get updated for Galactic Adventures. Also some achievements are listed twice there.

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All of the options and poll stuff is shifted over to the side. For example:

I have a Mac 10.5.7 and Firefox 3.0.12.

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It's well known but I wondered if the right people were aware. Most archetyped captains (ie. non wanderers) have a title based on their archetype in the Sporepedia, for example:

COLONEL Amago-Sera, the FIERCE

ie. all warriors have the title "The Fierce". However Knights appear to be broken, they have a blank space where a title should be ie:

KING Jesaan, the

i wis htey would fix that random error mesasage that appers sometimes. thats just annoying.

i likethe new interface.

a feature to custimize the my spore page more, like colours and stuff.

How come when I enter spore.com on the adress bar my sporepage loads instead? That's rather annoying :s

warmslime wrote:How come when I enter spore.com on the adress bar my sporepage loads instead? That's rather annoying :s

... Because Spore.com is a redirect to MySpore whenever you're logged in... When you're not, it's an advertisement or a language selection screen depending on if you have selected a language.

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Recently, I got an error message when I tried to log in. I can't recall the exact message, but it apparently was an HTML-error, and the message advised me to contact a forum admin and lookup the source HTML. It also prevented me from logging in.

Now, several minutes later, the error message doesn't pop up anymore, and I can log in as if nothing ever happened.

I find this forum to be quite... unstable at times. Often it gives me an error citing 'You don't have sufficient privileges to access this forum', most often when I just pressed 'submit' for a post in a thread I could access without trouble in the past... And once I clicked 'Go to Forum Index', and revisit the thread, I can read it without trouble again.

EDIT: Another example: whilst typing this thread, the forum logged me out, and the error messages started to pop up again... Whereas I've only been logged in for five, maybe ten minutes. This time, I copypasted the error:

An error has occurred.

For detailed error information, please see the HTML source code, and contact the forum Administrator.

org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: only whitespace content allowed before start tag and not o (position: START_DOCUMENT seen o... @1:1)

Really, someone should review the source code of this forum and check for glitches. They're only minor, but they're there, and when they pop up, they can be pretty annoying.

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The forum is organized easily, but there are so many bugs.

I, for one, keep getting the bug: Oooops.. You don't have sufficient privileges to access this forum.

another frequent error, the spore forum directory said in the spore help section: "no messages" when the day before it says the last post was <username>.

This forum should be checked more frequently than it is now.

Still, the forum is quite a piece of work.