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 community button 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.
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I was also thinking this the other day after clicking on the question mark and being directed to Discord not Discourse!
Will dig deeper and find out more. Thanks Ethan!
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The support team @bardia and myself are working on integrating this forum into the platform more organically, so it’s definitely on our to-do list! We’re just getting started!
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Update The Ask the community button now sends users here instead of the discord.
What I think will be particularly effective will be to add a new item in the sidebar menu that points to this forum.
Or possibly in the “foot section” of it where the link to the discord is located
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I think it’s working since more people are joining.
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Hey, @LenaAtReplit as I mentioned bore that the Ask the community button points towards here. I also just noticed that the pages that have a footer has a link that points to here.¹
I feel like with all the new users those 2 things would not get as many people to join. Has anything else been changed to help people find this forum?
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In the replit 404 page, there’s a link to the ask forum
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Also on the report form for bugs, billing and things like that it links here also.
You could put an ask link in the community tab.
@SILVERSTOCK I already mentioned this.
Sorry. I was seeing this at midnight.
Cant blame you. That happens to me all the time (except the midnight part).
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Hi
It is in the community hub.
and
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Locking this since there are a lot of things linked here now.
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Ask the community button
- 404 page
- Footer
- Community hub
- 100 days of code
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