We will be posting the threads a day in advance to gather questions ahead of the AMA, so keep an eye out and have your questions ready!
That refers to the reddit thread, not a thread on the forums.
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This is exactly why i hate reddit, thousands of miniblocks to skim for for info; no thanks.
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Ooo, my bad. Be nice if they did do that though.
Do they ever expand on a question? I’m sure the devs are giving you all the info they have/can on a given topic while also being mindful of the time they have to answer said questions. Here you could always just make a thread dedicated to a question if you really wanna discuss an aspect of it.
Unrelated, but may I ask how many posts you have on reddit? I noticed quite a lot of people who appear to prefer reddit have hundreds (in your case thousands) of posts.
So that’s just a personal preference, doesn’t mean reddit is worst.
Yes, lots of time in AMAs you post a question, they answer, you can answer back, they answer again. It’s pretty common thing.
Around 25 posts. I also only started using it like a year ago.
Here I have around 2000 posts and I was also really active in the old forum for quite some time.
That’s still quite the difference. So you just prefer the devs do AMAs there then.
I’ve been hoping to see a new Diablo spray ever since sprays were introduced 
This whole discussion was because I said this:
See, it’s kinda hard to follow everything here after so many quotes and answers, while on reddit you can easily follow through everything.
I do find reddit much better for AMAs. Probably even better as a forum format. The only really good thing we have here is the dev tracker, but even that is not that big of a deal anyway.
To be fair I was responding to not only this but what you said in the other thread. Which is a lot less focused on AMAs.
Ah right. Well, as I said, I think reddit has better format overall for a forum and it’s just easier to follow/filter things. There’s also the fact that reddit has much more people than here.
I feel like they made this forum for more official stuff and announcements, so if a dev answer something here it has to be really serious and well written, while reddit is much more casual so you don’t have to worry that much about stuff. I also feel like the devs are just another user on reddit, while here they are like “the devs wow”, you know?
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Well, two things. Matt did say that he had to go through checklist of stuff before posting, but I can’t remember if that was official or not, or if he ever said. Choosing not to respond to rude posts for instance could have been a mandate. It also could have been Matt choosing not to reward people who behave that way.
Not sure how that would be different for an AMA though. Matt was using his free time while I’m almost certain the devs are being compensated for the time they spend on an AMA. I can only imagine there’d be more restrictions when officially representing the company on their dime.
Second Lana never really seemed particularly stiff. Always seemed like she was just excited to talk about what she was working on.
Ppl do that already. We keep the same negative but add a positive.
I’d be fine with that.
Yeah, in the AMA the devs spend work time, while posting in other threads are usually on their free time.
How to trigger forum dwellers
Gratz, another thread turned into why daddy Blizzard likes reddit more
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We did it Reddit!
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Reddit is also a neutral ground that they do not moderate themselves and therefore cannot censor or ban users or questions they don’t like. It also has a much larger audience.
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the ‘replies’ dropdown shows all the ppl that replied to a post. easy enough to follow along with a specific conversation like that. additionally if you see just the quoted passage in a post, and say its already 100 posts down in the thread, you can click the little arrow up that says ‘go to quoted post’ if you want to read the entire post it came from. which will in turn lead you to seeing that ‘replies’ drop down that is listed on the original post.
the forum here all blizzard topics and posts are specifically marked as blizzard.
i would call your attention to a few things here:
this is the ‘please read me…’ pinned post at the top of the forum. look at it in the forum list. it shows it has a blizzard response or was created by blizzard as indicated by the blizzard tag off to the side.
you can click this blizzard symbol and it will take you directly to the first blizzard post in the thread! whether its the first post or post 100 it doesnt matter. it will take you there.
next i want you to notice about the first post the blizzard icon in the top right corner of the first post. located right under the post date. if you click this it takes you to the next blizzard post! helpful right? …and again it doesnt matter where in the thread the following posts end up you can keep clicking those little icons and go through the blizzard replies in the thread until you reach the last one.
next is the scroll bar off to the side. so you got to the end of a thread and its post 400. you want to go back to the first blizzard post quickly. click that blizz icon at the top of the scroll bar where it says ‘first tracked post’
the next thing is the blizzard tracker and dev tracker.
these are incredibly useful in just finding the recent blue posts. the ‘dev’ tracker as it may be obvious, tracks developers only. the ‘blizzard’ tracker is all blizz employees.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/heroes/groups/heroes-developer/activity/posts
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/heroes/groups/blizzard-tracker/activity/posts
so the point being made here is that the forum has more than enough tracking. you may not know how to use the forum properly still, but its there.
So, to repeat what I said before, this forums has all that but it’s not even that big of a deal, because you can easily find stuff on reddit as well.
Dev’s posts usually have lots of thumbs up, so you just order by top and you can find it very easily. Then you add the fact that reddit is a more organized format where you can follow and see everything more clearly, instead of having to go back and forth to find things here.
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Also they are highlighted and easy to find with just little bit of scrolling in most cases.
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- stuff posted on the forum is taken to be a sort of ‘promise’ and come a week after seeing stuff like this in the works (if posted by a blue) then there’s going to be topical spam saying ‘x n x’ was promised, why isn’t it already here?
- Outreach. theres 207k followers on the heroes reddit; does this forum even have 2000 real accounts? (rhetorical question)
reddit follows allow people to hit up a number of difference interests without needing to personalize each and every membership, so its not as if other games don’t also have followings on reddit that dwarf their ‘official’ outlets.
However, when big stuff does come down the line, then the interest can come to the forums and the blue topics do have 5-digit views. But overall, ‘people’ just aren’t interesting in this sort of thing when they can prob themselves for posting/viewing the same meme junk across however many communities and think it unique each time.
They should fix Zagara’s Nydus worm count while they’re at it