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This. I mentioned this as a worry during closed beta. Requiring users to properly tag threads requires users to not only be competent enough to know how to tag them and which tags to use but also to not be too lazy to do so. Unfortunately, there’s a reason the old forum had a ton of threads constantly being moved out of General Discussion. Aside from the regulars most people either weren’t competent or weren’t willing to become so and the ones that knew better simply didn’t care.
A mandatory tag on a thread would be interesting but I feel like we would just end up with another section becoming a dumping ground. Unfortunately I think the only “solution” here is the same we had before: an army of moderators constantly tagging threads.
why not just allow & use “general” default tag and be happy… : )
That way (new & even old) users don’t have to stress about finding correct tag(s) (and moderators shouldn’t bother them in “general”, except adding better tags if they want to - but never closing topics for “wrong tag” etc.)
And once people get more used to this system,
they can and will add better tags (to get better answers).
*bonus: If only we had some intelligent technology that can categorize automatically (or at least suggest possible tags based on the question) … : D
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Because it’s not only a mess but also it discourages new users because now they think that no one wants to help them when in fact it’s just a case of their threads are buried in with all of the other threads.
In my experience with the old forum that doesn’t really happen with the majority of new users.
I know you’ve already ollie-out of the forums, but say you’re going through the UI product area. The tags would help you identify is a thread is IMGUI, uGUI, or UI Toolkit related. Or in the scripting area, you can see whether a thread is regular scripting, Burst, entities, jobs, etc, related.
So we do lack subforums now but the tags can just be use to pick out what topics are relevant to you. I usually scan the tags first, then look at the thread names with tags I’m interested in.
Unpopular opinion but where it up to me, the tags would be above the thread title.
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While we’re talking about tag UX: I’d remove or de-saturate the coloring on the unimportant tags. I don’t need to know if a thread is a “Bug” or a “Question”. It’s usually obvious by the title and the contents.
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“Yeah, it’s a mess. But it’s deliberate so suck it.”
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I have only two real problems with the forums right now.
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It’s impossible to post in Unity Discussions Feedback - Unity Discussions via “New Topic” button unless you scroll down 3 pages to the very bottom of the section where you’ll see a blue link that allows posting there. This is known by like 3 people so the section is practically unusable. Either remove it or allow posting in it because right now it’s there for optics, not feedback. People literally can’t post feedback there because they don’t know how.
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Recent Multiplayer Dev Blitz Day 2024 didn’t use Dev-Blitz-Day tag. Why?
These were the instructions per official topic: Multiplayer Dev Blitz Day 2024
People were supposed to randomly post in a couple dozen tags, everything under the sun except Dev-Blitz-Day and Unity developers were somehow supposed to differentiate between dev blitz day questions and regular support requests and other discussions and answer. And now there’s no way to see what was actually answered or not because nothing is tagged properly. This is very much old Unity where the right hand doesn’t know what the left one does. I hope Unity event organizers will eventually learn to use their own forums.