Why does Epic for Indies have separate Learning section containing a fraction of the content? What is so different about indie developers compared to regular developers that they need a segregated, restricted set of learning resources?
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Hi, Rawalanche! It is not restricted at all! We created this new space for all indie devs to meet us and each other and share their experience in game development (whether they are using UE or not). That’s why the categories in this section of the community are addressing other subjects like business or marketing for example. What other subjects would you like to discuss?
I mean this:
^ contains just a small subset of content found here:
There are no learning resources in the Indies section that are specific to indie developers and there are no learning resources in the Unreal Engine section which wouldn’t be useful for indie developers as well.
Why fracture the learning portal?
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Its an even worse UX for users, to switch back repeatedly between the Forums and the Learning section (doesn’t feel like a cohesive single platform just 2 different sites). So many sections have so little value anyway… Has anyone run up against the brutal Cloudflare wall too? Where you get stopped and not permitted to consume anything (unless you manage to get past the invasive fingerprinting monster - ‘wait while we verify the security of the connection’).
Honestly can’t see this community going anywhere or becoming anything. For example, is this comment from a troll, or an accurate predictor of the future… Nothing much was learned from all the user FEEDBACK during the previous Marketplace revamp, and nothing either from all the feedback when Discourse first launched…
Epic just contribute way too little (of any real value), and only fragment things worse by pushing Discord now. Sure there will always be fortnite noobs around. Everyone else? Not so sure… Fiddling around with categories and adding a new rep occasionally only gets you so far. Example: 5 posts in one month??? Weak Epic, very weak…
Winning big against Google is great and all (legendary in fact), but not maybe, if you also let your own house burn down Tim @ Epic. 
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Since @game-maker dragged me into this, I suppose I’ll have to offer my own 99¢. 
You make a brilliant observation @Rawalanche. I haven’t paid much attention to the learning portal (thou I prolly should) however.
It may be that it was the creators of those videos that categorized their work as being for indies, themselves. But if that is the case, there should be some review process to affirm that categorization.
Also, I think that categorizing a course as being for ‘indies’ would actually dissuade AAA, experienced devs, and Virtual Production people from viewing those courses.
And I can’t imagine that there are only 60 results for indies. There’s probably a lot of other categorization issues.
I’m just thankful that those courses are there if/when I do need them.
Game on!