šŸšØ Big News: Our Community Forum is Getting a Makeover (January 8th 2025)

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Fantastic!
Iā€™m looking forward to seeing new changes.

I have one recommendation about the threads, Iā€™ve seen that it seems to be hard for people to mark some replies as ā€œSolutionā€, the button is hidden in the ā€œ3 dotsā€ menu. for tracking the right answer, it would be much better if it was more like StackOverFlowā€™s system, not sure if the up/down vote system is better than the liking system, but other than that, the voting/likes and marking as a solution (by the creator of the thread) can be more accessible in the view.

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Congrats team on all of these upcoming improvements! I know this has been a long time coming and thereā€™s been a ton of work thatā€™s gone into it behind the scenes. Excited for the launch in the new year! :purple_heart:

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Thank you @Josh ! :heartbeat:

:rotating_light: Everyone, weā€™re excited to announce that the updated Community Forum will officially launch on January 8th! :rotating_light:

Hereā€™s additional information you need to know:

:spiral_calendar_pad: Downtime & Data:
From January 2nd at 5pm ET until January 8th at 10am ET, the forum will be accessible as usual, but any new posts, likes, or registrations WILL NOT carry over after a brief downtime on January 8th (8am-10am) ET.

Please also check the first post of this thread for additional information :arrow_up:

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Iā€™m really looking forward to an improved category structure! I hope itā€™s not too far-fetched to read into this as ā€œmore categories with more specificity.ā€ Eg:

  • prototyping
  • design systems
  • component architecture
  • variables & tokens
  • dev mode
  • ideation
  • auto layout
  • sharing designs
  • administration

I recognize the team has already set plans, but figured Iā€™d share a little brain dump list for the fun of checking back in post-launch and seeing how close (or far) I was on what the new categories will be.

Cheers team!

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Hi Alice,

Thanks for posting your thoughts on the category structure.
In the forum update youā€™ll get to experience in January 2025, we chose to simplify the category structure.

The specificity you are looking for can still be accomplished via the tagging system.

These are areas (category structure and tagging system) that I predict we will revisit often as our community evolves and the different audiences navigate through the forum.

Your feedback is welcome and has been noted - maybe one day your ā€œlittle brain dump listā€ gets closer to the structure implemented. :slight_smile:

I hope you are enjoying the Festive Season and enter the New Year on both feet (i.e. with double luck). :fireworks:

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Hi! Just wanted to highlight the need of pinning comments to design elements. Its a topic with over 370 votes from 2021 and I think that it needs to be adressed, because most designers restructure their frames constantly and the comments get misplaced during the process: Keep Comments pinned to design elements (including nested)

Maybe this is not the best place to re-post this but I wanted at least someone from the team to be able to notify about this feature.

Thanks in advance.