Proposition for a DevForum announcement subcategory

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Recently, there have been multiple updates towards the DevForum such as Discussion being opened to Members and Cool Creations becoming visible to Visitors. However, there’s been no communication about these changes furthermore leading to a topic inquiring about it being made.

Additionally, peoples’ notifications have been flooded with new badges and causing major confusion due to an update which could’ve been announced.

I propose a small subcategory in Forum Feedback just to notify us about these changes, and if people want to contradict against the update then they can on the announcement topic.

Here’s a poll to voice your opinions:

  • Create the subcategory
  • Don’t create the subcategory
  • Other (state in replies)

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Agreed, everything always gets swept under the rug until someone notices, and someone other than a staff member posts about it.

Putting it in Forum Feedback would just ensure it gets flooded by other posts and Announcements is not the category for meta posts.

Take for example, my topic on Discussion being opened:

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/members-can-now-create-discussion-topics/700528/

Shouldn’t this be instead announced by a community sage or staff member at Roblox?

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Whether the subcategory is created or not (#updates:community has been used for forum downtime, that could be an alternative), announcements about forum changes would be great. Most of the time changes are unknown or unconfirmed until someone posts a question in Forum Feedback asking about it. It would be great to know when forum leadership plans on changing things. I wouldn’t mind if topics were locked to prevent spam or if it was even presented in the form of a weekly/monthly “changelog”, it would still be helpful to know how and when the forum will be changed without having to guess at it.

For example, when votes were experimentally turned on in #platform-feedback, no one had any idea what was going on, until staff answered a question in #forum-feedback. It would’ve been great to know this ahead of time rather than having to speculate until forum leadership replies. This would also prevent duplicate questions about the same feature popping up.

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