Frankly, I don’t want a Unity developed community building platform because if there’s one thing Unity does not seem to understand at a corporate level, it’s community building. I wouldn’t trust a company that has left its user base with things such as:
- completely replacing the forum software in such a way that made them useless as both archival resources and communication tools
- leaving community hubs like Unity Answers to totally languish
- deleting the Feedback section entirely without any sort of archive
- just completely awful communication historically
- replacing the job forums with Unity Connect, a service so awful to use that this decision had to be undone
And this doesn’t even begin to address the other issue of Unity stretching itself incredibly thin, offering passable at best versions of services that other companies already offer. This horizontal integration stuff is an absolute disaster and, were I to want to use community services, I would simply hire a community manager instead.
Because that’s their job.