I am with you totally. Not complaining, but my point is there’s much better way to market your product while helping people. Signatures are quite old way to do it. Here’s my summary. Not going to discuss on this matter any further.
- If you like to help, just do it. If someone found it helpful, they will definitely click your name & see the profile. Advertise on that.
- Right now, I agree not many will check the profile, but eventually, everyone will. Just like we check Twitter profile, etc.
- I know you made some great plugins. I suggested one of your plugins (easy CSV) in my Discord.
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( This is just a co-incident, but I didn’t discover it via the forum. I just searched it on the MP) - You need to target your project for the right audience. If you help someone with material stuff, that person rarely needs a CSV parser.
- So, don’t try to promote your CSV parser in that thread. That’s what signatures does & that’s spamming. (This is just a hypothetical example)
- Spend some time creating a Youtube video or a blog post on CSV parsing with your project. These days, you can do it in a couple of hours. Use Medium, dev.to for blogging.
- Then next time, someone asks for CSV help in this forum, just share your post. (Or someone will do it for you)
My point is simple. We don’t need signatures to promote our products. That could be a thing 20 years ago when there are only emails. But the internet & people have evolved. This forum change is one of that.
Just embrace the change.
Keep in mind, UE5 is going to be a massive change. We can complain like this & live in history or move on with what’s next.