Currently there is nothing obvious on the main site (replit.com) pointing people towards this forum. There is only 1 place that is points users to this forum. When you first make a team this UI will come up.
And only 1 link comes to here. So if a teacher just wants to make a team they wont see it.
And all of this doesn’t even mention non teaches. With the recent edition of #help and #code-help the forum is expanding to a more general audience. So only people that were in the forums before this transition and teachers that click the link will be getting help.
Here are some ideas:
- Make the community tab direct to the forums*
- If somebody gets an error in their code 2+ times in the console it would say somethign like
It looks like you are having trouble. Thats OK. There are many people willing to help over on our forums.
- In the question mark UI thing the
Ask the communitybutton directs to the forums instead of the discord.
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Off topic
I think we should bring back the site feedback category so topics like these have their own space instead of going into #uncategorized.