This is a design of some possible changes. It is the FN forum, and the content is made up (4 27 and all) so ignore all of that, but in terms of layout and functionality?
You can see the changed top section here, there is a preview of the post per thread, and like show up, also resolved questions are clearer.
Do you all feel that in particular that first line text previewing would be good to do across the forum on every thread and category, or will it eat too much space or add noise?
The preview line is great. Don’t think it adds too much noise since the color is fairly faint. Seems to be quite a lot bigger now but I think I prefer this over the popup.
I suppose the best thing to do is ‘ignore them and they will go away’ as I was often advised by my parents (and I am pretty old). Humans don’t change too much it seems. .
Though I haven’t gotten as much help from these forums as I’d like, one would have to be blind to think that this community’s anywhere close to “dead”. Questions are being answered, help is being offered, but not everyone with the necessary expertise sees everything at all times. I think everyone’s mileage is gonna vary to at least some degree.
I try to do things “right” when asking questions like providing details, screenshots and/or code, marking questions as Answered, doing plenty of Googling and personal troubleshooting before even asking a question, so on and so forth. And I appreciate anyone who at least tries to help me out, hopefully I’ve expressed that clearly thus far.
It can be disheartening to see your question get ignored, and someone else’s receive a lot of attention, but there are a number of reasons as to why this happens. Nothing’s ever perfect, but I always try to hope for the best.
its definitely not dead, it has grown considerably. Just that the growth is mostly noobs, so there is tons of noob questions and fewer experienced people.
Hopefully just a bug - there’s a heap of posts half answered and now cut off - it often takes a few days to answer questions - I can’t imagine the Epic staff doing this on purpose…
my issue is that i keep responding to very old post because they appear at top of my feed so I assume they are new. sometimes they are several years old. I assume its just intermittent bug as part of forum overhaul
Why a topic will be closed 24 hours after inactivity? A lot of times people finds some helpful info on some old thread and wants to keep asking from there or things like that.
I also noticed when I post a question, I go to questions and I dont see my own post there…I used to see it.
Also I notice some usres replied me in some threads and I didnt noticed…not triggered in my upper right avatar with the notification.
Also going there I see this:
a long list of replies and it says 4 unread but I dont have idea wich ones because
is a list with a lot of them
I’ll be very honest here… a lot of the solutions or lack thereof that I find helpful are thread that are 2 to 8 years old and still ongoing. To close them would be a disaster for me. Just search for anything to do with translucent materials. My goodness!!!
This thread has convinced me to help out a bit. However, I gave out bad advice at least once recently and another time, someone else came in with far better advice. Programming specific advice I can do, but UE specific stuff I’m still learning. UE is a moving target anyhow IMO.
I found Staff to be incredibly helpful, so I don’t want to harp on them, but if a Staff member reproduces a bug (and thank you for looking into it), would it be possible to get advice on what happens next? Do I need to file a bug? Will someone look at it? Something. Thanks and I feel kind of bad mentioning it.
Question is, why? What exactly is the point? Points of clarity, things changing after a release… who knows… (as reasons to revisit a thread after a day)
Let me put it this way: Are necro’d threads such a big deal - and so commonplace - around here that this course of action is really necessary?
In the olden days, they used to file reports directly from the Answer Hub posts on your behalf, and handed out reference ticket numbers. These days? Dunno
From my (somewhat dated) QA experience, I’d expect them to have a front-end DB / tool for users reporting incidents, and an investigation / verification team converting reproducible issues into proper reports inside an internal system of sorts which may or may not be proprietary. Chances are it’s a mutated Jira.
I’d say go ahead and report it, it may already exist so a bit of research is always highly recommended. If 1% of folks did that, we’d have a perfectly working translucent materials by now, surely.
