It should be the ‘+ New Topic’ on the top right of the topic list
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I’m still trying to get used to all of it, it looks pretty well done though.
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Discourse has tried to modernize the forum experience, but of course not all of that is going to be so much an improvement as it is just in the zeitgeist. LIke, I don’t necessarily think pagination needed to go.
With that said, there’s nothing I intensely disagree with, and I don’t necessarily agree with you on all the specific examples. For instance, I think the “@” symbol is a very useful and intuitive way to refer to another user. Regardless of my views on the social media sites that popularized it, it’s a fantastic invention. It’s definitely not as useful on a forum where you more often just want to directly reply to a user than just call them out in a post, but it does have its place when you want the attention of another user but not on any specific post.
It’s probably useful to take a moment to figure out why you don’t like what you don’t like. Like, I don’t have a solid argument for why lack of thread pagination would be bad, which might be an indication of me just not being used to it. Might just be something we’ll get used to.
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Links are currently intentionally disabled. They’ll be back eventually.
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A very reasonable take. My position may well change on a lot of these things as I use them. I think you helped to clarify my dislike of one feature in my own mind, though.
On social media, the focus is on the users. An individual creates an account and discussions are very much on their feed, about themselves and their takes and opinions.
On forums, particularly fan forums for things like video games, the focus is on the topic. Yes there are other users and you come to recognise, even befriend, a number of familiar individuals the longer that you use any given forum, but that is not why you are there. You are there to discuss the topic at hand. This is how I see it anyway.
A user focused function like the “@” symbol feels out of place because it is used on user-focused social media, not (for want of a better term) topic-focused forums.
Perhaps part of my bias comes from frustrations with doing web development work in the past where clients demanded features they clearly did not need simply because large corporate websites used them. Perhaps I have transplanted some of my negative perceptions from those experiences onto some of the new features here.
At any rate, it is not the end of the world. I do not have to use a feature I feel is unnecessary nor let it bother me, even if I feel the use case is “because Twitter does it”. I would caution the developers of this site against bogging things down with features that may not be entirely necessary. “Less is more”, “KISS” and so forth. But I am just one user among many. I could be wrong.
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Feels a bit strange, but just been used to old waypoint, but I like it 
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It’s confusing but I’ll eventually make my way through gonna take some time navigating
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Seems ok gotta wait till I finite
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What exactly is this bot for? I can’t find the message anymore.
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I’m not really digging it on mobile so far. It’s kind of a hot jumbled mess, and it doesn’t look like any of my tenure has ported over. 
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I can’t get on it on Google Chrome. I’m on my phones default internet browser to type this. Glad to know it’s because they updated and Chrome apparently just doesn’t like it.
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It’s fine. Takes some getting used to.
Like the Dark Theme better than that Light Theme of old.
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I’m just waiting to see who all the community mods are,
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Reading the posts it looks like I’m in the minority feeling pretty upset about the removal of forum ranks. I wasn’t even that high with ~500 posts, I would be furious if I were one of the veteran forum members with thousands of posts and years of progress. Kind of surprised more people aren’t upset about that.
As far as the feel of the new forum: it’s ok but I won’t be around anymore(which I’m sure is fine with everyone, some of my recent posts were lackluster at best) so farewell and good luck.
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halo waypoint finally has a true dark mode lol
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As someone who had Spartan, it’s really no big deal to me. All it really added was more pfp options.
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so far i really like it, the aesthetic is very reminiscent of the old school one! although i do have to say im sad there don’t seem to be ranks, i enjoyed that
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None of my legacy games show up under service record. So far I’m not too impressed with this new Waypoint. It looks better. I hope they give us all the functionality that the old one had.
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I guess I’m speaking speaking as a veteran member having been continuously on Waypoint for ten years with around 9000 posts, there’s nothing to be upset about. I’m can of course only speak for myself, but I would imagine that many others might feel the same way. Because I believe that if you’re around long enough, you eventually realize how superficial it all is.
I have thousands of posts, what’s the value in those posts? It’s not the number of those posts, or that those posts merely exist. It’s the conversations, the experiences, the history. It’s the effort and the thought I put in. Those things haven’t gone anywhere. I still have the memories and the knowledge, and after the old posts get brought over, I will also have the history. In light of that, the idea that some stupid string of text matters seems silly.
Now, granted, I never even had a forum rank. When I first joined Waypoint, forum ranks didn’t even exist. For a while, there were really basic default ranks of whatever forum software Waypoint used at the time: “Member” and “Advanced Member”, or something like that. When the eral forum ranks were created, a group of people including me were affected by a bug that resulted in their rank not getting updated properly. After that, I became a moderator.
Maybe somebody with a Spartan rank felt a bit more attached to their rank, but to be furious over losing it? There’s nothing to be furious about.
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