I’ve been away for a while but now I’m back and among the mountain of stuff to do I decided to add more to that mountain.
I want to find a way for you to identify topics easier when browsing or searching the forums, there are a tonne of features in Unity and we can’t have a tonne of sub-forums for ALL the things!
There would be different ones depending on which forum you are in (i.e. iOS features only in the iOS forum) and they are optional, so you don’t have to put one in if you don’t want to or if your thread includes issue in multiple areas.
Now this works in the test site, hopefully it would work on the live site crosses fingers the live site could always just throw up and not work :S but if we don’t try we won’t get.
If I’m to go ahead and get cracking on this I’d need your help, if I get a majority yes on this I will set up a thread to dump ALL the prefix topic requests, cause I can’t think of all of them
So, do you want this, will this help?
p.s. Prefixes will happen one future forum that is coming with 4.2 but I thought it would be nice in other areas.
How many prefix’s may be added? If multiple are supported will they be sorted ( perhaps alphabetically ) so that there is a consistent experience when browsing? Sounds like a good Idea +1
The only things I’d like is being able to add prefixes after the thread is made such as [FIXED] to indicate a problem is fixed (so others with a similar problem may hopefully find a solution inside) and [RELEASED] for an asset store product you’d like to indicate is finished.
Yeah, great idea, with the ability to change a question prefix to solved (fixed is the wrong term, it implies a bug), after the fact (but not essential). Being able to search by prefix so old hands can troll looking to help people if we’re bored works too. This consistency makes it easy.
Would multiple prefixes be supported, such as (say, in the scripting forum):
[C#] [Physics] My ball doesn’t bounce very high!
I suppose this is more approaching a tag system, for example, some standard tags could include:
[Noob] [C#] [JS/US] [2D] [Music] [Help] [Fixed] [Solved] [Released] etc.
Then you could search using a tag, or combination of tags.
But, if not, a simple one word prefix is still better than what we have, and much appreciated!
Ok so I tested more and you can only have one prefix, but you can edit it under advanced settings so if your issue is solved you can change it to just solved.
It would be nice to have say, 2 prefixes but I guess this thing isn’t perfect and like slydog says, it’s better than nothing
I’m happy to hear that. I of course we understand that this is require’s a lot of work.
Prefix sounds like week replacement of taging.
If it’s easy to make, than would be nice to have it.
But I do not think that you should spend a lot of time now or in future to implement or upgrade it.
Point is that it’s nice to have now, but should be replaced with tags in future. That is only my opinion any way
Prefixes do sound a lot like tags. What are the differences and if they are somewhat the same why not simply use a tagging system similar to the one on Unity Answers?
