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As previously written in a thread that I don't seem to find anymore (I thought it was located in the CC's section, but it's not there), I believe to be time to retire the FreeNAS section of the forum since users (not necessarily new) continue to mistakenly create new threads about CORE or SCALE, which hampers their own visibility and possibly creates confusion for the users actually searching about a FreeNAS-related issue. I don't see much users anymore running a FreeNAS version and actively posting about it, so maybe archiving the section would help: doing so would however require a mass moving of the resources threads to the new CC section; there are plenty of non-resource (as in the forum's resource cathegory) useful threads, but those are more difficult to find and move (and would therefore impose a greater workload to mods/admins).
At least weekly I'm also amazed by how new users can get creative and post in the wrong section despite thing being quite clear to me, but that's a dangerous slope I don't want to bring up in this thread.
And since it's not constructive to just complain about things, I am also proposing a different reorganization of the forum's structure in order to hopefully help the less experienced users to navigate the sections and correctly identify the best place to look into things and post their help requests.
News and Announcements can remain as it is (maybe give users the ability to react to TrueNAS News' posts).
Then I would create a new section containing Developer's Corner (which honestly could be removed and a few important threads located there moved since discord seems to be the privileged channel for this topc?) and Community Contributions: I'll call that Knowledge Forge (placeholder name).
Then we would have the actual TrueNAS section (that could as well be renamed with something like Troubleshoting Lair), the Community Discussion section and finally the Archive Section.
I also propose to set the required post count in order to open a new thread in the Community Contribution's to 5 in order to prevent "accidental" pollution of the section with troubleshooting discussions.
Finally, a shoutout to all the mods who bear my constant reports of mislocated threads. I know I am a bit fussy.
At least weekly I'm also amazed by how new users can get creative and post in the wrong section despite thing being quite clear to me, but that's a dangerous slope I don't want to bring up in this thread.
And since it's not constructive to just complain about things, I am also proposing a different reorganization of the forum's structure in order to hopefully help the less experienced users to navigate the sections and correctly identify the best place to look into things and post their help requests.
News and Announcements can remain as it is (maybe give users the ability to react to TrueNAS News' posts).
Then I would create a new section containing Developer's Corner (which honestly could be removed and a few important threads located there moved since discord seems to be the privileged channel for this topc?) and Community Contributions: I'll call that Knowledge Forge (placeholder name).
Then we would have the actual TrueNAS section (that could as well be renamed with something like Troubleshoting Lair), the Community Discussion section and finally the Archive Section.
I also propose to set the required post count in order to open a new thread in the Community Contribution's to 5 in order to prevent "accidental" pollution of the section with troubleshooting discussions.
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News and Announcements Announcements TrueNAS News Knowledge Forge Developer's Corner Community Contributions TrueNAS Troubleshooting Lair Applications and Jails International Discussion TrueCommand TrueNAS CORE TrueNAS SCALE Virtualized TrueNAS Community Discussion Community Forum Great Deals Archives General Help (Read-Only) FreeNAS (Legacy Software Releases) FreeNAS Archive (This is ancient, no idea if it makes sense to put in under the Legacy Software Releases)
Finally, a shoutout to all the mods who bear my constant reports of mislocated threads. I know I am a bit fussy.
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