Check’s out though, right? I mean, the problems don’t just go away so they still have to do something about them.
At least they’re not trying to use Lithium, and everything is consolidated to one platform.
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None of these problems involve moving everyone to a platform that was meant to replace Unity Answers, they involve fixing or replacing the underlying forum software without butchering user experience. There are options out there, scalable options that have been used repeatedly on much higher traffic forums offering the same functionality and UX, that don’t involve this haphazard approach to things.
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Discourse is fairly widely used for that, as far as I can tell. OpenAI, Epic, Zoom, GitLab, EVE Online, Envato, etc…
Except this doesn’t address anything I just said. I’m saying to use scalable forum software that has been used for substantially larger communities that offers the same functionality and user experience. Discourse does neither.
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Discussions is fine with me. It’s just that what’s familiar (these forums) is more attractive ><
But it’s gonna be like the plunge into slightly cold water: You get used to it quickly.
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Wow, end of an era for sure! Will miss this place alot! I guess as long as all the threads and content is ported over then it will be fine; tons of useful info spanning decades that can’t be lost!
Appreciate the upfront announcement and specific information about the change, @LeonhardP !
And like with any change to a social media platform; people will complain for a few weeks then just accept the new UI and forget what the old UI looked like. Just like whenever Facebook has a makeover. 
What happens with linked forum threads on external sites? Do they redirect to the ported Discussions thread?
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Can you describe what you like about the old forum vs discussion? ( without familiarity ) I’m super curious if my thoughts align with yours.
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Of course, we haven’t had a chance to see it in practice yet, but that is the assurance.
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Before he can do that here is my 50cents. I’m around the net from the old times and had my share of this style of forums from when they show up back in the day. Rarely new forums “redesigns” improved anything and most of the time killed the experience. Why? Who knows. That could be good thing to research for some social science graduate and write his Phd about it.
We are in any case at the end of useful forums interactions on internet. Most of the online debate is closed behind unsearchable walls. That s.hole of Discord is one prime example but is not the only one. Getting any kind of quality interaction now with all these chatgpt bots everywhere is an exercise in futility.
and also being that unity is on death steps anyway, if they don’t figure out a way to get back from their grave, which is hard for me to see how they can do that, talking about changing forum styles is talking about pointless fluff at the moment.
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You could save a lot of space if you don’t migrate posts or users with 1 post over 2 years ago.
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Sad too see the forums go. Spent (way too) much time on here.
Still prefer it over discussions, so lets hope that changes
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No, I definitely don’t like them either, but if you haven’t been around since the early days you wouldn’t know that the original forums were pretty bad too. It took about 6 to 8 years to reach the state we’re at now so as long as it takes them less time for the new forums I’ll be able to live with it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060703030603/http://forum.unity3d.com/
Almost afraid to say that I prefer those archived ones above the current unity discussions.
They did something functionally right, not talking visually, but the information density and navigation clarity is higher even on the ancient one.
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Khoros (aka Lithium) is widely used too. Just saying. 
I sure hope that there’s a lot more discussion about the style sheets and what makes a USEFUL forum for technical discussions. A forum page that requires a maximized 16:9 browser just to overcome dead space to see 80 columns of code is abhorrent.
Even if you hide the white sidebar, the column ratio of the remaining area is still enforced, allocating 25% of the width to dead space.
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just curious that why not finish fixing the discussion first, before migrating? (its literally downgrade at this point)
i mean, these migrations and other big changes have failed every time and just created chaos, increased unity hate, and wasted everyone’s time and made working and searching solutions (from posts) more difficult : /
*Also, how to export watched threads to discussions?
I need them to follow on specific topics/posts that i’ve gathered over the years to my watch list.
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The Lithium rollout had it so that there were no functional redirects from Google searches that pointed to old forum posts, completely crippling Google as a resource.
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Unfortunately it’s not about the features it lacks but the experience it brings, the same information blackhole experience of Discord. If the ephemeral trend continues maybe the Asset Store could only list instant discounts, in an infinite scroll that you can only accept or decline to continue browsing.
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One thing about discussions that bothers me is that whenever I’m searching something about Unity, discussions never show up in search results like the site doesn’t exist. Back in the day, it was a mix of unity answers and Forum, now only Forum and Reddit show up but never discussions.
Also, I wonder what will happen to categories, the ones in the discussions are terrible.
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Each topic will have at least one tag, but can have multiple, like Scripting or Android. Then you can filter by tag to see all related topics.
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