Hello, @Tina_Wisdom I hope you are doing well. I noticed recently that forum posts have started to automatically close 1 month after the last reply. Unfortunately, this new behavior is extremely detrimental to the Unreal community. Please allow me to explain.
Having been an Unreal Engine user since 2016, I personally witnessed the solution to a complex topic get resolved 7 YEARS after it was posted. This could NEVER have happened if the post had been auto-archived, and all the knowledge shared over the years in that post would have been scattered over dozens of other threads.
I hope Epic Games will reconsider and allow old topics to stand. Thanks very much for your consideration!
Agreed. Especially since some answers become outdated very quickly with UE. On StackOverflow people respond with modern solutions even 10 years after the original solution was posted. In UE posts reporting engine source bugs also remain open questions for years, to which the community contributes with reports and workarounds when EPIC does not handle the report.
I would rather see an “archive” tag on posts targeted at years old software to which we can filter if we want to see them or not. They should not be closed or hidden by default.
Yep. Engine versions change and sometimes google brings you to a forum thread with outdated info. I’ve personally updated topic threads with new engine version changes.
