I wanted to answer a topic that was closed just yesterday. I think that topics can be still relevant after just 30 days. This can lead to more unanswered and duplicate topics.
Just my 2 cents.
Unanswered how? Topics aren’t closed unless they have a solution
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Ah, it’s because it’s marked as solved. I thought it was always being closed. Sorry, I don’t use the forum that much. Sometimes the selected answer isn’t very complete, but that’s another story.
Thanks for answering!
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Even if they have a solution I feel like they shouldn’t be closed. Sometimes it’s valuable to add information over time or to ask a specific about a solution someone had. All this closing does is scatter information over multiple posts making it much harder to find information. Topics often naturally die over time.
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Why would the topic be relevant over 30 days after everyone stopped discussing? That’s “naturally dying” to me
Cause there are many factors that can change over time.
I’d say that if a topic has been completely inactive for over 30 days it’s unlikely that new people will join the conversation, they’ll instead start new discussions as going down that far to find a topic that’s far over a month old is difficult
I would say locking a thread is fine, since it only happens when a “solution” has been found. If someone opens a new thread, they can reference the previous, older one, in case something has changed in the engine and that old answer no longer applies.
On that note, I would definitely support the idea of making the “referenced in posts” section more obvious / visible, so others who find a really old topic that has been locked for a while can see “oh here’s a more recent post about the same topic, I should check that one out”
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Maybe Godot intentionally does that to either prevent off-topic discussions, or to preserve storage (probably irrelevant)