Woah what happened to the forums?!

As I mentioned in another thread when we changed a couple of forum names ready for this change, we've done a reshuffle.

Our main goal with this was to sync everything with Learn and Documentation topics to make it easier for beginners and anyone entering this community to find what they are looking for.

At the top you will notice Announcements and eventually next to it (hopefully tomorrow) there will be a "Getting Started"

Since this is primarily a forum for Unity development support, all support topics have been pushed up, currently they are somewhat alphabetical. Check the descriptions for the purpose of the forum and links to the relevant documentation pages and learn (handy!).

WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THE PLATFORMS????!!!

They are under "Platforms", in the description there are quick links, if you click Platforms itself, everything we have is in there.

We have a few new forums, namely Audio & and General Graphics (housed within Graphics which also contains Shaders)

This whole inception layers with forums is new and with our ever growing features and platform support, having a never-ending scroll list on the front page is annoying. So we're trying this out, but this is a deep as the layers will go, I say no to a million sub forums so don't worry.

Finally, to reiterate, always look at forum descriptions and stickies.

Peace out.

 

Overall, I like it.

However, when a new person comes on the forums, they are going to see that page, with all the listings. The little "learn" underneath is not nearly as noticeable as the forum topics. My guess is most new folks will still go to the Discussion or other forums first, completely missing out on the meaning of Learn. They want to ask questions, not read and use tutorials. If they wanted to use the tutorials, they wouldn't need the forums.

"Start Here" might be better. Or the Newcomer Forum you mentioned earlier.

 

this is the wrong section for this post.

 

dislike

discussion/wip/showcase at the bottom? very a$$ about face.

 

Sometimes I feel like I live on the outside.

 

I dont like it. Why did you put general and commerical way at the bottom.

 

I think it's good that the those sections are so close to the bottom for various reasons. Biggest thing probably is that now when discussion is not the first thing they see there will be less from post count 1 users asking how to move a brick with the script they copy pasted from net or how to do this and that.

Same for WIP/Showcase/etc...

 

The most-used support stuff is at the top, which is as it should be.

Can you see what else is new?



--Eric

 

Yeah profile posts aren't actually a thing, they never should have been. The thing we used to disable it doesn't work right now, so ignore that.

 

Well its broke anyway so no worries.

 

Na... I don't like it... and regarding Support Forums being used the most... hmmm I don't know it's hard for me to believe that when I look at General Forum Discussions and I see way more replies in General Discussion threads in comparison to any thread under Support.

 

@Aurore why not add a Poll to this Thread see what Votes Look like.

 

If I was to make one change, it would be to put discussion next to announcements.

 

Put everything back to it's original spot, and put a HUGE banner that says "Nubs click here pls."

 

Then everything would be again the same mess as before, thats the first thing newbies see and they don't know or care which would be the appropriate section and then they post it here... unless that is exactly your plan is based on the mood of most your posts

 

Which they would ignore, as usual. And that's annoying to non-nubs.

--Eric

 

Here the clue:

A, B, C, D...

 

You could filter out people with more than 5-10 posts

 

Except it is more like D, C, B, A. They are reverse alphabetically sorted with "Commercial..." being at the bottom and "Welcome..." being at the top.

 

Are there still plans for the Physics forum?

 

I like the stuff down on the bottom on the bottom. More likely newcomers with code or implementation questions will go to support first which is where they belong.

 

This must be the wick work of the former EA CEO. The end is coming!

 

Of course it's not; if it was, you would only get the first few subforums, and the rest would be DLC. Plus every year they'd rearrange them slightly, but you'd have to buy them again. (Did I miss any other EA cliches?)

--Eric

 

DRM where you have to login every time you want to post. Microtransactions on Like packs.

 

EA would let you post once every 24 hours for free, or you could pay for tokens to speed up the cooldown.

 

Always-online forums? Unacceptable!

 

It's tragic, I know.

 

Always good to change your habits... don't care about the changes.... will always find what I need after fooling around...

 

I want to request one more subforum that isn't here yet. Physics!

It';s one of the biggest things people have issues with. Colliders, physic materials, rigidbodies, collision detection, performance, etc. it's a huge aspect of unity and there's a lot to learn and know. and to discuss.

 

Right! Plus we get new Physics features in Unity 5 so we must have a place to discuss it!

 

Good news you put Collaboration Forum to the bottom. No more MMORPGs

 

Im pretty sure most people have scroll wheels

 

Ugh, complaining about changing the forums is really entitled.

The forums are here to help users learn, problem solve issues, and to make teams.

The general discussion, WIP, and show case sections are here to serve as a social function so we can more effectively learn, problem solve, and team up. Unfortunately people use it as an excuse to (mess) around all day and not actually work towards anything.

Meanwhile, new people who come in talking about a game they want to make are shuned and not encouraged at all.

So yes, it makes sense that Unity should make some changes seeing as how many new customers they're losing because someone new to game design has their first experience a run in with a bunch of bitter forum squaters.

Good change.

And maybe this will help remind some of those forum squaters (guilty) why they're here.

 

Any Captain here to explain the icons? Unity 5.0 preorder beta has an audio icon, while the audio forum has a map icon?

 

Captain?

My guess is that icons are placed temporary while new ones are being designed.

 

The icons are a bit jazzed at the moment.

Physics forum is coming.

 

Are you planning to replace them all?

 

Eventually, right now the icons don't match the correct forums.

 

Don't worry. It will take awhile for icons to be made an impliment. First ideas.. The concept then revised then color then approval then revised then approval then maybe it will get in the que for applying it..
Kinda like the approval process of the Vogon.

 

I'm with Hippo hahaha.

 

LMAO! You sir just made my day!

 

lol

IFP In-Forum Purchases

Someone give Prime31 a head's up...

 

-_- are we done?

 

Yes Ma'am

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Thank you dear.

 

*bandanna tightening intensifies*

 

Is that a "Rambo" reference?

 

So "Unity Rumors" now go here in General ?

Or do those just get blocked/removed completely?

 

It was never a particularly good title anyways. Calling it "Discussion" at least opens it up for pretty much anything that doesn't fit elsewhere. Plus we were running out of good rumors.