As I mentioned in another thread when we changed a couple of forum names ready for this change, we’ve done a reshuffle.
Our main goal with this was to sync everything with Learn and Documentation topics to make it easier for beginners and anyone entering this community to find what they are looking for.
At the top you will notice Announcements and eventually next to it (hopefully tomorrow) there will be a “Getting Started”
Since this is primarily a forum for Unity development support, all support topics have been pushed up, currently they are somewhat alphabetical. Check the descriptions for the purpose of the forum and links to the relevant documentation pages and learn (handy!).
WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THE PLATFORMS!!!
They are under “Platforms”, in the description there are quick links, if you click Platforms itself, everything we have is in there.
This whole inception layers with forums is new and with our ever growing features and platform support, having a never-ending scroll list on the front page is annoying. So we’re trying this out, but this is a deep as the layers will go, I say no to a million sub forums so don’t worry.
Finally, to reiterate, always look at forum descriptions and stickies.
However, when a new person comes on the forums, they are going to see that page, with all the listings. The little “learn” underneath is not nearly as noticeable as the forum topics. My guess is most new folks will still go to the Discussion or other forums first, completely missing out on the meaning of Learn. They want to ask questions, not read and use tutorials. If they wanted to use the tutorials, they wouldn’t need the forums.
“Start Here” might be better. Or the Newcomer Forum you mentioned earlier.
I think it’s good that the those sections are so close to the bottom for various reasons. Biggest thing probably is that now when discussion is not the first thing they see there will be less from post count 1 users asking how to move a brick with the script they copy pasted from net or how to do this and that.
Na… I don’t like it… and regarding Support Forums being used the most… hmmm I don’t know it’s hard for me to believe that when I look at General Forum Discussions and I see way more replies in General Discussion threads in comparison to any thread under Support.
Then everything would be again the same mess as before, thats the first thing newbies see and they don’t know or care which would be the appropriate section and then they post it here… unless that is exactly your plan is based on the mood of most your posts
Or the Newcomer Forum you mentioned earlier.
