We’ve been busy responding to your feedback and making some small quality of life (QOL) changes in Discussions. Your input is super important to us, and while we try to address as much as we can, we can’t do everything. For example, we’ve had some requests to make things bigger and some to make things smaller—it’s a balancing act!
Rest assured, all your feedback is going on our wishlist and being considered.
One thing we need to address is the request to remove infinite scrolling. Unfortunately, infinite scrolling is a core feature of our site and product, so we can’t change that anytime soon. We might revisit this in the future, but it’s not on the immediate horizon.
On a brighter note, we’ve heard you loud and clear about improving the mobile experience. It wasn’t a big focus in the old forums due to low usage, but it’s clear it’s important to you now, so we’re bumping it up the list.
Some great news: we’re seeing almost five times the views on this site compared to the old forum and Answers combined. Engagement is way up, with more posts and interactions. It’s early days, but it’s looking really good!
Thank your support and feedback.
My team is committed to making this community space the best it can be.
Its prob a default setting we can take a look. don’t see a total email limit i do see one for 100 emails a day per user it could be that. let me know if you can send again tomorrow
keep it coming! But I just tried to add a tag to a previous post for ‘Lighting’ and when i tick the change it gets changed to ‘Global illumination’ so is adding tags broken or do some tags wrongly share an id…?
There are tags that are alias of others this could be one of those. The individual teams are working on make sure they get a good handle
Of what should be the main tag and what the aliases should be .
Great, thanks for all the work! Discourse is a breath of fresh air compared to the old system. Two things I’d love:
Vertical padding is still… overwhelming. The amount of space a one-line reply takes up is massive, and it’d be lovely to tune that a bit – or maybe offer a ‘compact’ setting in the preferences, if it’s a design choice?
I still hit dead links on Google pointing at the old forums. Was every post migrated? Even if the posts aren’t popular or responded to, they can often have a lot of valuable information in them.
The criterial for the migration was in the announcement post I think we ported about 90% of all posts.
I think we are doing the final work on the redirects of urls with /page ending, which may take a day or two more to populate.
If there are posts you find missing let me know
And we can test/check them. We have an entire back up so we might even be able to recover any specific posts if the demand is enough.
There was over 5 million posts ported the rest were we other out of date or posts that had no interactions for years.
One of the bits of feedback we got was to try and clean up the out of date content that was confusing new members , or could lead them into difficulties.
The original Announcement post has the migration criteria
Ah, I see. I’m not sure lack of replies is a good signal for ‘out of date’ though. Lots of posts that are really useful are only useful to that one person who spots the exact same obscure bug or stack trace! There’s a long tail of value you’re cutting off, I think.
I can see the argument for cleaning up old posts <2015… something like that.
In any case, I’ll flag any posts that are missing next time I hit one.
I think the user profile data can be improved. Right now unless it is staff or you recognize the user there is no good way to get more info on who they are or how they contribute to the community.
Things like post count, signature, when they joined, etc would all be helpful metadata to have. Ideally without having to ‘click’ into the users profile.
Right now the pop up you get from clicking on a user profile pic isn’t that useful either (except their join date). At the very minimum we need post count and also signature.
Although you don’t need to know more about me it is weird - I can see all kinds of statistics and badges (gamification yay ) which I would rather not have there but indeed we are just statistics now.
Edit: you can play with profile info in the hugely complex mass of profile settings, but if post counts are not shown or some self-set badge of experience, you do not know the knowledge/experience level of a user.
Even a text-only archive would be great.
it is weird - I can see all kinds of statistics and badges (gamification yay 
) which I would rather not have there but indeed we are just statistics now.