“EA Forum update (June 2025)” by Sarah Cheng

Jun 3, 2025

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In January, I wrote about the EA Forum Team's shift in direction. Since then, our usage metrics have been pretty stable, nice! 😊 (Compare to 2024 where the metrics were going steadily downward the whole year.)

When I wrote that post, my role was focused on the EA Forum, and I had intended to spend the majority of my effort on the EA Forum. However, my role and my team are in flux right now, primarily in order to better align with CEA's strategy. I’m currently running the CEA Online Team, and so far in 2025 we've broadly been spending a smaller portion of our resources on the EA Forum over time[1]. I think we need to be careful, because I still believe strongly in what I wrote in my previous post, and I have a worry that reducing the resources we spend on the EA Forum does risk [...]

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Outline:

(01:40) Site improvements

(01:44) Updated notifications

(02:16) Draft comments

(03:00) Users can run their own polls

(03:24) Tweaks to voting

(04:00) Redesigned user menu

(04:32) New Made me laugh react

(05:12) Forum events

(05:15) Forum events calendar

(05:26) Ways the world is getting better