Raz wrote: I don't see why you'd register on a forum and not use the forum.
Forum is basically the site, the site is the forum. People want to submit levels. To submit levels, they have to register on the site. To submit the level, they submit to the portal through the forum. So in essence they are using the forum. It's how it was designed, because we wanted them to get active in the forums.
Quite honestly though, the user pruning is a big deal and should be publicly announced. Yeah we email the users...but how many of those users have a different email and haven't changed it? Factor that in. And how many even check their emails? I don't, tbh, except every Saturday or monthly on my alts, which atm are now filled with at least 20k emails over the course of three years. Pruning the memberbase is a big deal, you can't just waltz around it and only let the ones affected know, you have to make a sitewide announcement saying "Hey this is going to happen, just so you are all aware, so if you have questions you can ask us".
Otherwise we'd have problems, like we had on the first two pages.
I don't know, that's just how I'm seeing, like it was kept a secret or something. New forums or new features being discussed or planned out thoroughly, yeah, keep those secret until released and surprise us, but if it's going to hit the memberbase in a way that if you don't post in a specific forum you are out of luck, and there was no public clarification before hand, that's a bit of a no no.
But that's just me, at 4:30 in the morning, having not gotten any sleep...damn my screwed up health.