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Originally Posted by gosens
Sebastian and Jeff - A request regarding these forums.
It's great to have a post with development updates, but inevitably it has become bogged down with feature requests and general discussion. It is the same thing effectively as the bug report thread (which does contain bug reports, but also feature requests) and the periodic "version x released" thread which then attracts bug reports and feature requests. Same thing happened for the Game Systems threads.
I'd like a thread that I can subscribe to and get notifications when there are posts from OOTP staff, not when the community responds. Otherwise I get notifications for all the responses - or I can ignore it but then I have to check the site to see if there's an update, defeating the purpose of the notifications. I then spend a bunch of time going through the responses to see if there is anything from Sebastian or Jeff.
My suggestion: Please create a locked thread for official updates and news, new versions being released, etc. and post all events in here. If you want discussion, post an open thread but also add a message in the official thread mentioning the discussion. Then we can always be notified when there is something "new".
Create a separate thread for feature requests (separate from the bug reports) that people can then go to when they want to comment on the latest announcement or release.
Thank you.
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Great idea. I've always wondered why people clutter up a thread entitled "Developer Update Thread" with topics that are better located elsewhere on the forum.