I think that would be cool, having a bot that keeps the community updated on recent posts. I mean I never know when someone posts a question in a channel I don't regularly check but might be able to provide help with if there was a 'feed' channel or similar that keeps track of when posts are made and where. I don't give particular attention to certain channels as they seem 'dead' but sometimes people do post on there, and their questions get ignored. Seeing this on a feed will prompt others to visit the channel and provide help. 🙂
#How about a channel where we can monitor questions posted. Eg: A new question has been posted in #bp
remote grove
harsh wave
How would you implement this though
"A new question has been posted in #blueprint !!
But it's someone replying to a question, asking a question to the OP, or some off topic?
It would also get spammed to hell and back
consider every popular channel pinging for that as well as every other channels, your "dead" channels are still dead because it got drowned by questions in other channels
The number 1 reason you find questions getting ignored is because they're ill formed and asked poorly, or insanely specific, for a very very specific use case that most won't be able to answer.
It's either "game broke, how make work?" or "Hey there, I'm using UE5 to develop some software for NASA to help with the mission to mars. How can I use blueprints to communicate via a non standard communication protocol on proprietary hardware?"
Those are what are often ignored, the first, no one wants to answer, and the second, most people can't and it's just a matter of hoping you posted at the right time when the right person was online and active.
You'd also have to rely on people monitoring the feed channel anyway, which seems like more effort than just checking if a channel moves from the light gray text, to bright white.
low cave
This very much seems like you want a forum rather than a casual chat experience.
harsh wave
Judging from all the previous posts, it really does seem like the want to transform it from a chat server to a "Answer question, next" thing
sharp shard
In theory, if it's only applied to a channel that hasn't had a question posted in, idk, 7 days, then that would somewhat make sense, but then again, the channel will show as unread then anyway.
Not sure this would actually work well.
fringe flame
I think the notifications system works great for this especially with discord's recent generalized notifications that give you a rough idea of what was talked about but even without that I don't think this would be a very useful feature imo
harsh wave
I completely forgot about those
It can be kind of useful, but not entirely accurate some times 😆
I'm still trying to think of how you would distinguish a question between a response or offtopic
low cave
discord's recent generalized notifications
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harsh wave
> discord's recent generalized notifications
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Those AI summary things, you can disable them per server
Those things
fringe flame
Literally don't have anything in that section that's newer than 20 days old...
yeah it entirely depends on how you have notifications set up
teal ledge
Doesn't discord kinda do this by default? The white marker indicating there have been new messages since I last opened the channel. So it tells me 1) there's been a new message and 2) where that message is.
Adding another channel that would essentially do the same thing, just a visual difference, means those who can answer questions are now watching some feed - which may be getting bloated with notifications for other channels - instead of being in the channel(s) they can help with.
low cave
I think the idea is that you would use it to look for questions you can answer in channels that you aren't watching.
I have over half the channels in the server hidden so I could see some random question in another channel I can help with.
teal ledge
Ah. That seems like it could get bloated fast with how many channels/questions we have 