Suggestion: About suggestions and general CS QoL *UPDATE

[beestie]

most of the current suggestions generally require coding, and some of the oldest are suggestions that require nick to work on them. how does forwarding these suggestions work? sorry to be blunt; but it's obvious he does not work on them. does he even respond to any of the suggestions forwarded?

i too would like to know how suggestions are forwarded and what sort of responses are shared from nick - because if suggestions are forwarded as you've said, surely there is some sort of discussion happening. and if that is the case, i feel as though nick's answers or responses about certain suggestions should be shared to those originally making said suggestions - instead of just having these threads sit around in limbo for years.

Any staff member can forward suggestions to Nick. Our current method is basically a thread where we link popular suggestions for founder review. I stated this in another thread, but we are working on a more efficient way of forwarding suggestions that would involve “rack and stacking” ones that have gotten the most support, seem to be easy to code / implement, etc., and listing them all on one living document. This would prioritize what we would like to see answered first, second, and so on to provide you all responses on if said suggestions are possible, in progress, and so forth. By consolidating everything, it should hopefully make the process easier on both staff and Nick.

thank you for the explanation! it's always a bit reassuring to have a glimpse of what's going on behind the scenes.

can i ask how often that thread receives responses from nick with the current set up - just kind of a ballpark estimate? i think a lot of people in this thread would appreciate knowing just how involved nick still seems to be, as obviously a lot of us looking from the outside in believe he's,,, not around nearly at all anymore.

[Clayflower.]

Any staff member can forward suggestions to Nick. Our current method is basically a thread where we link popular suggestions for founder review. I stated this in another thread, but we are working on a more efficient way of forwarding suggestions that would involve “rack and stacking” ones that have gotten the most support, seem to be easy to code / implement, etc., and listing them all on one living document. This would prioritize what we would like to see answered first, second, and so on to provide you all responses on if said suggestions are possible, in progress, and so forth. By consolidating everything, it should hopefully make the process easier on both staff and Nick.

thank you for the explanation! it's always a bit reassuring to have a glimpse of what's going on behind the scenes.

can i ask how often that thread receives responses from nick with the current set up - just kind of a ballpark estimate? i think a lot of people in this thread would appreciate knowing just how involved nick still seems to be, as obviously a lot of us looking from the outside in believe he's,,, not around nearly at all anymore.

yes, how often does nick respond to things like this? i'm glad you're working on a more efficient way of handling suggestions though!

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because i also noticed he did respond to Celozon about an issue with the current mini-game. i am honestly disappointed to learn that nick doesn't even fully code the minigames like i initially thought.

I spent a minute testing different things out and I believe the issue is pausing while treats are in the process of being cleared and/or treats are still falling onto the board. I tried matching 3 treats and immediately hitting the pause button while the animation was still playing and my timer did not stop counting down. When nothing on my board is moving the game will pause normally, with the timer freezing and all. So to anyone having this issue, if you unpause and pause again it'll work fine and the timer will stop, as long as nothing on your board is being cleared.

editing to add: I checked the Feed the Campers minigame too and this issue is also present in that one

Ah I see what you mean, that is happening to me as well if I pause during the animations.

I checked with Nick, but sounds like its not something he would be able to fix at this time. Some of the event mini-games use outside code that he didn't make (I believe the snake mini-game was another one of those) so he doesn't have the same access to the inner workings of them. I don't pretend to understand all the details, but as it stands it sounds like he won't be able to fix it. Assuming the pausing during animations was the cause of OP's issue, its at least a fairly easy thing to avoid once we know what causes it.

so communication happens here at points like these, but what about the overall point of this suggestion? what is his response to the decade old threads?

[beestie]

i understand things are busy with the halloween event and staff applications but i feel as though the question posed by clayflower and i could be answered fairly quickly by any staff member - since any of them can send a suggestion to nick. i find it odd that it's been half a month with a question posed directly to staff (some of whom have in fact posted to this thread, so it could be assumed they're seeing these posts) and no answer.

to be blunt, it sort of illustrates what this thread is partly about.

[Clayflower.]

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[Kururu]

This is so true
Everything, especially the lag for the whole site, is outdated to the point where it’s actually detrimental to the player base.

[Clayflower.]

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[AncientEldritch]

Not to hound on staff but, from the perspective of an old player, there was noticeably very very few QOL or.. any changes to this website from when I actively played in 2011 to when I came back in 2023. I think the only thing that was even notably different to me was the rarity update.

At this point, I can only assume that cs's code is complete spaghetti and any serious changes are either too complex or risk breaking it.

For a website that does make money from it's users, it's wildly disappointing to see that almost every suggestion, no matter how popular, is met with radio silence.

[BlueEyedKite]

As an oldie (been on this site since 09) I will click through older posts for the nostalgia. To remember CS at another time. In my wanderings I came across a suggestion similar to this one. Unlike this topic, it was locked. The final message I think is telling: click

Specifically this line by Seasonal

I cannot speak on anyone's behalf of adding certain features, but I think it is important to remember that Chicken Smoothie is not similar to other games like Flight Rising where content is added frequently. CS is a game about collecting pets and having a finite number of things to obtain; it is unlikely that features that dramatically impact the game are going to be added.

I am honestly fine with CS not having content added frequently. I find other countless ways to amuse myself on CS besides the pet side of it. What stands out to me is "it is unlikely that features that dramatically impact the game are going to be added." Dramatically impact. Changing the way Cs has always been, whether good or bad, is probably not going to happen. I suspected this sentiment all along, of course. But it hits different when an admin assistant says so.

My thing is. If that is really how admin feel, that they will not be adding any major features to Cs--why do we have an entire forum dedicated to changing the site? Is this not taking up server space? Mods have to monitor this board and lock, clean up posts.

On occasion, Simon/Nick will post a feature staff is considering and ask for the community's input. Announcement posts. I would prefer giving my support and feedback when, whatever the feature that is going to happen, is already on the table. If staff need opinions from CSians they are not shy about asking, like starting a topic about what summer event we wanted to see.

We don't need a site suggestions board for those announcement posts. We have the Announcments forum.