I’ve noticed that certain topics in #development-discussion have solutions marked, which doesn’t click to me. Aren’t discussions… discussions? Meaning each discussion wouldn’t have a right/wrong answer? You are just discussing a particular topic based on your own opinion and experience.
I feel that whenever a discussion has a solution marked, the discussion starts to slowly die because there’s a solution, there’s an answer and there isn’t any need to engage ourselves in the discussion any longer. #help-and-feedback does need the solution as it identifies which reply is actually working and/or correct.
To fix this, assuming the devforum is using this plugin, all the devforum would need to do under #development-discussion is to go to settings > uncheck the “Allow topic owner and staff to mark a reply as a solution” as seen below:
I feel that if there is a solution marked, then it shows that this topic is not a discussion, it’s a question/answer situation which I believe needs to change.
I think solutions in the case of a tutorial/discussion are useful only for pinning replies. Maybe there is a plugin that could be implemented assuming there is one if necessary, for these categories.
Unfortunately, solutions is an ‘all or nothing’ system. You can enable it everywhere, or only for specific categories (meaning it couldn’t be used in DMs). As others have noted, solutions are also routinely used to ‘pin’ a notice.
Seeing a next to a discussion isn’t that bad of an experience.
I don’t really see that, though. For example, a topic that was created talked about where they get icons and someone linked where they get it, it got marked solved, and the discussion died (Which I don’t consider a discussion as it seems like a question/answer situation)
This still isn’t addressed, and I feel like this should be changed. I feel like the solution option in Development Discussion encourages new members to post their Help and Feedback topics in there, because there also are other topics in there with solutions. (I might be wrong, I’m not speaking facts.)
To pin important responses, you should edit your OP and add the link to the reply you want to pin at the bottom of it, so it would look like this:
Just using the post above for this example.
This just was 10 seconds of work, so there is no reason to keep the solution option in Development Discussion in my opinion.
If it doesn’t go as how people intend it to be, could we use the solution feature as pins as many have brought up? Maybe even allow more than one solution?
next to a discussion isn’t that bad of an experience.
