[Request] Systems Design Channel

[north glade]

I'd like to propose a channel dedicated to questions about how to design systems, wiring them up and best practices. One of the most difficult things I've struggled with is gaining expertise about the "proper" (or at least not obviously wrong) way to do things. This might be difficult to moderate, because it involves a higher level of abstraction discussing use of all unreal's systems together, but I feel it would bridge a gap in knowledge here, and help nearly everyone.

I don't feel there's an existing channel that's appropriate, or comfortable to discuss these sorts of things. The more involved topics tend to get drowned out, especially in bp, or cpp, or general. My 2cents.

PS. This discord server is amazing, thank you to everyone.

[sage bay]

Unfortunately we already had a channel called #design-chat

Its purpose was as you describe however it never achieved that due to people completely misunderstanding it.

We decided to retire the channel as the discussions taking place their were typical of other channels and not related to design.

It is doubtful we would be able to bring it back and not have it result in the same issues.

[sick flare]

Nevermind the subtext, but from the name of channel I would have thought it was visual design related. IMO a more explicit name like this would guide the conversation to be more relevant.

But it was also a "chat" channel, which to me suggests off-topic is fine usually

[sage bay]

Alternative names were also tried, the fact of the matter was, people did not understand its purpose precisely because its an abstract, as pointed out by the OP.

[cosmic nest]

We should even archive #level-design and create specific channels that used for level design in UE.

See my post named "I think level design channel should be archived"

Anything related "design" causes people to misunderstand what it is about and go insanely wild about off-topic questions