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MikeCL

KanataEXE I agree. It has been removed. I'd like to reset on an upbeat note. Keep the culture and vibes here positive and optimistic.

Tomcat

KanataEXE Hey, can you delete the thread that started this whole mess?

MikeCL It has been removed.

Nothing on the internet can be deleted definitively "The internet remembers everything" ©️ If this topic is deleted, it gives conspiracy theorists a chance to talk about silencing the problems with Godot.

Only conspiracists will post the first and possibly last posts from this thread to support their theory. Skipping the entire discussion with counter arguments. Which will do far more damage to the community than keeping the entire thread with objections.

Keeping the topic is not good either, but it's a classic choice between bad and very bad — there is no good solution.

Xrayez

Tomcat Which will do far more damage to the community than keeping the entire thread with objections.

I wholeheartedly agree with you here.

synthnostate

Tomcat KanataEXE Hey, can you delete the thread that started this whole mess?

MikeCL It has been removed.

Nothing on the internet can be deleted definitively "The internet remembers everything" ©️ If this topic is deleted, it gives conspiracy theorists a chance to talk about silencing the problems with Godot.

Indeed, a few of the controversial threads were partially archived on a site that absolutely will not delete them. IMHO those threads should be locked with a note like "locked because it escalated into a flamewar", not removed. There's nothing there that blatantly violated the forum rules, nothing illegal or NSFW. They were frank discussions about forum management which needed to be had.

Xrayez

Tomcat Which will do far more damage to the community than keeping the entire thread with objections.

It seems like a video has already been made on the topic. I don't think censorship is the best solution. If it's possible, it would be better to restore the thread. Otherwise, this could lead to more videos being created, which could be used as evidence of dissenters being censored within the Godot community. This wouldn't create a positive image of Godot in the public eye.

ucmRich

You sound like a great guy pal, Many thanks for setting this up! 😃

As I am new to GoDot, i'll shortly intro myself. I haven't developed a game in over a decade and my previous engine of choice was DXStudio. I have here and there been keeping my eye open for another engine I could use and thus far GoDot is #1 from the ones i've tried off and on.

I may eventually work on a production game but for now, i'm having a lot of fun with GDScript and some of the great new features in GoDot.

Having this forum is something I hope helps me get better and i will also provide help to others as i get a bit more experience.

again, thank you for hosting these forums!

MikeCL

ucmRich Hey, welcome! Great to hear you are getting into game dev again. The great thing about a forum like this is that you will be surrounded by people sharing the same passion!

Zini

The forum is currently not linked on the Godot community page (https://godotengine.org/community/). Pretty sure it was listed there before, because that is how I found the forum in the first place. Has there been any attempts yet at contacting the Godot community team to have the forum listed again? Or are we putting that off until all the kinks have been worked out?

MikeCL

Zini Hey Zini, not yet I'm afraid. But I plan to reach out as soon as things calm down on my end. Then take it from there and see what happens. I would love to form a deeper relationship with the people there. That's all I can say at this point.

MariuszKlimek

I'm so glad the forum is back again! It went down like a few days after I registered. Not the most pleasant experience xD

fire7side

Little suggestion, I think this forum should have a chat and people not get so worked up if the conversation strays a little as long as it doesn't personally offend anyone. Yeah, it's all right only talking about game development, but I don't see where it hurts to talk about something else once in a while.

samuraidan

fire7side I think technically there already is? tags > community > general chat
it's a bit hidden so I don't blame you at all for not knowing about it
the bigger issue I see is that people come here for the specific purpose of game development, so if a more prominent general chat showed up I have a feeling it would be ignored by most.

edit: or did I misread you and what you meant was that everyone should have a chat with each other about being too stick-up-your-behind about staying on topic?

Megalomaniak

fire7side Little suggestion, I think this forum should have a chat and people not get so worked up if the conversation strays a little as long as it doesn't personally offend anyone. Yeah, it's all right only talking about game development, but I don't see where it hurts to talk about something else once in a while.

samuraidan fire7side I think technically there already is? tags > community > general chat
it's a bit hidden so I don't blame you at all for not knowing about it

Rules were the issue not the tag/category for it. And Cybereality changed and simplified the rules precisely to enabled that, to have some more off topic community discussions. And predictably that did lead to problems.

I do not disagree tho, there is some room for such looser off topic discussions, but they are also more draining of moderation resources. So step one is to on-board enough moderators that can be trusted to handle it. I expect that will take some time tho.

fire7side

samuraidan OK, well, I guess I didn't see it. I'm used to chat just being the topic and anyone can post whatever is on their minds. Maybe I'll try it, I don't know. Anyway, it's good the forum is up again. I don't mind if it is only game development or whatever. It's a nice group of people and hopefully nothing else will mess it up. It's just, game development, when you are talking about story or game play, could basically be about anything, but we should probably stay away from current events, since it gets some people taking sides and whatever.

IceBergyn

Any chances to have public access ( read only maybe ) to the site database for backup and community sharing ?

ucmRich

umm why does it say my post was deleted? mistake or did i do something wrong?

MikeCL

ucmRich Hey, hmm. there must be a mistake. let me check in to it.

fatalox

Hello, i have a question, maybe someone already asked so sorry about this.
What happen to Q&A (https://ask.godotengine.org/)? I was an user there and i liked it.
It says "This site is currently in read-only mode during migration to a new platform".
But where, who, what exactly?
Thanks.

retroshark

fatalox Yo yo! We are not associated with the official Godot engine website. I am unaware of the timeline of the 'migration'.

Did a quick search around and I don't see anything posted on the social channels either. Hopefully we will see it go live again soon, although I don't have any further knowledge

MariuszKlimek

fatalox
I'm wondering: Why not create a community on Stack Overflow?

synthnostate

MariuszKlimek fatalox
I'm wondering: Why not create a community on Stack Overflow?

Why not just use Unity? Why not trust Google, Microsoft (now including Github), Reddit, and Wikipedia to organize all the world's information? StackOverflow is certainly useful at times, but it's rightfully criticized for monopolizing and gamifying technical discussions.

I dabbled in it when it was new but deleted my account like 10 years ago and I have no interest in going back.

Zini

You mean like this?

MariuszKlimek

I had to check - they call it a collective

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