Not a Fan of AP Forums Not Being Shown


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Why did you guys and gals choose to stop having the various AP forums closed up so you have to click on them to see their threads? They have a little arrow next to them, but when I click it to see all the recent activity in the forum, nothing happens. It's annoying to me, I'm sorry to say. Those forums were my primary reason for being on this site. Would it be possible to open them back up for viewing (without clicking)?


Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber

Everything looks of for me. Maybe you can try and clear your paizo.com cookies and then login again.


I appreciate the suggestion, Z. I removed the cookies and logged out/in, but it did not change the settings at all. I still can't see the AP forums without clicking on them.

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

Does it do the same thing if you try a different browser?


I get the same thing with my phone (using chrome) and my Mac (using Safari).

If I go to www.Paizo.com/pathfinder/adventurepath you can't see the AP message board at all, just the Paizo blog, store blog, news and top sellers.


Vic Wertz wrote:
Does it do the same thing if you try a different browser?

It does, sir. I use Firefox as my default, but I just tried opening it on Chrome, and the same situation persists.

Community & Digital Content Director

I think I understand what you may be experiencing: by default, we collapse certain forums when you are not logged into a paizo.com account. This is because we have dozens of subforums that make the page fairly unwieldy to navigate if they are all left unexpanded, and so certain subforums are prioritzed for guest view. If you are logged into your account, the site should be storing which subforums you've left expanded and unexpanded.


Chris Lambertz wrote:
I think I understand what you may be experiencing: by default, we collapse certain forums when you are not logged into a paizo.com account. This is because we have dozens of subforums that make the page fairly unwieldy to navigate if they are all left unexpanded, and so certain subforums are prioritzed for guest view. If you are logged into your account, the site should be storing which subforums you've left expanded and unexpanded.

Yes, indeed! What you're saying is exactly what I'm experiencing. The problem, however, is that the majority of the subforums that I visit and like to read in are the ones that have collapsed on me, while ones I never go to are the ones that haven't! I'm curious, then, how I can keep those subforums I visit regularly to stay open, because when I click on that little arrow to the left of the subforum to drop it down, nothing happens.

Dark Archive

Clearing the cookies probably killed the tracking.... if you expand what you want now, does it keep it?


Nevynxxx wrote:
Clearing the cookies probably killed the tracking.... if you expand what you want now, does it keep it?

That's part of my problem, unfortunately. I can't expand anything. I click on the arrows to expand them, it gives me that loading sihedron, then goes away and does nothing.

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

Sub-Creator, is it any better now?


Afraid not. I still can't get them to drop down. I haven't changed anything on my computer except the necessary uploads from Windows 10, so I don't understand why it's doing this. Sadly, I'm tech savvy enough to figure out the reasons myself.

Paizo Employee Software Test Engineer

Sub-Creator -- I took some time to investigate and I can verify it's happening as well, although it looks to only be happening for very specific accounts such as yours, although I haven't figured out what's causing it yet. I've added this issue to our issue tracking to make sure we have it actively on the radar to be addressed going forward.

I really appreciate your bringing this to our attention.

- Erik K


Well, Mr. Keith, I really appreciate you looking into it and seeking a fix sometime in the future. May you and yours have a magnificent week!


Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

If it is any help in the troubleshooting-process: I've got the exact same problem as Sub-Creator
edit: thought it was a new "feature", glad to hear that it is some kind of a bug since I would really appreciate the old appearance.

Paizo Employee Software Test Engineer

Clavicus wrote:

If it is any help in the troubleshooting-process: I've got the exact same problem as Sub-Creator

edit: thought it was a new "feature", glad to hear that it is some kind of a bug since I would really appreciate the old appearance.

I suspect this bug is actually quite old judging from a few of my earliest memories of the website. I forgot about it after my first few months as Customer Service and it's managed to fly under the radar until now.

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