Not a bad idea @wsoteros
Perhaps one subforum "Experiences" for each major version.. eg SCALE ,13.0
It can be both positive and negative experiences?
Maybe not subforums but a label for versions in one new forum somewhere? This may need a little more thought, but if such an area is created it likely will also need some policing to avoid extreme negatives or other abuses.
Thank you for your encouragement, both of you. It is regrettably another place for those with inner hostilities to vent in the wrong direction.
When I read this all I can think about is we have all the other TrueNAS forums filled with experiences, problems, and most of the times even solutions. So I personally do not this we need another sub-forum for people to voice their feelings, I feel that we do that already in the normal forums. And as previously noted, policing another set of threads is just more work.
There's nothing keeping anyone from posting their experience in the off topic forum. Isn't that what it's for, off topic questions and chat?
I have complete respect for your points.
Here's just an example that I posted on Level1Tech, of course I would add a text searchable version of the errors if I were doing it properly and had a suitable place for it. I'd love to put it on this forum, as it's the right place.
As I don't need help, it seems superfluous to place the post in the 'help' section. It's not particularly off-topic, it's about the focal point of this forum. It's not, for instance about new job offers, new hard drive releases, hilarious jokes or networking (yes, I viewed the first page of the Off-Topic area) - it's about the actual product that this forum exists for.
As you know, sometimes errors can send one down a wild goose chase, this can frustrate and discourage anyone new to anything. I understand the fundamental principles of this forum, to me it's a place I go if I've completely lost hope and tried every other avenue. I object to anyone going to any forum with a question that is answered on page 1 of "how to do that thing".
I do appreciate and respect that this may lead to a flurry of surplus posts, blind leading the blind. However as it's a place to add problems WITH solutions, it could help trigger someone else's lightbulb moment, thus providing a confidence boost for using what is an excellent product.
Except that it's really on topic...
Perhaps it could be titled "Broken and Mended", or "I broke and I fixed". Sub-forums could be Core, Scale and Migrating. The more experienced could, if they were inclined, to suggest how the issue could have been resolved better/quicker - but the pressure wouldn't be on as the matter was self-resolved (unless it was a ticking time bomb situation of course).
I personally have nothing to gain from the improvement of this forum, I have simply found a product that is excellent and in a pinch, there are kind volunteers that tolerantly assist those dipping their toe in the TrueNAS waters. One day many years from now I hope to be a useful member of this forum, right now I'm mostly a quiet backseat driver...probably in a booster seat.
I confess this verbiage doesn't come off the back of decades dealing with ZFS / FreeNAS / TrueNAS, I'm very wet behind the ears and don't possess 1% of the knowledge most of you have. My profession isn't IT, but I do use IT(ha). It has taken nearly 2 years of familiarisation with TrueNAS before I felt competent enough to use it, see my first post and
@jgreco 's civil and encouraging response.
I was and still am excited to see just how stable and "does what it says on the tin" TrueNAS is. It gives me warm sense of satisfaction when I see that a replication task worked, or when I receive an email confirming helpful information. I can understand how perhaps after a decade or so, these emotional reactions may decline. But as I'm not seeing it day in and day out (home and work), I doubt it happening quickly and if anything, I wish to promote TrueNAS to those with some technical background that wish to better preserve their data.
Apologies for this response being a little excessive, I welcome mod's to redact as necessary.