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Is there a reason that the forums for specific Blog posts don't have links from the Blog post itself?
For instance, I go to the "Introducing the Spore War Player’s Guide", and there is no link to the discussion forum.
When I go to the Spore War forums, and click on "Introducing the Spore War Player’s Guide", it takes me to the Blog, but with no access to the discussion forum.
Help.
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Is there a reason that the forums for specific Blog posts don't have links from the Blog post itself?
For instance, I go to the "Introducing the Spore War Player’s Guide", and there is no link to the discussion forum.
When I go to the Spore War forums, and click on "Introducing the Spore War Player’s Guide", it takes me to the Blog, but with no access to the discussion forum.Help.
The reason is because OLD blog posts used to have comment sections built into them! We can't go through years of blog posts to re-add comment sections back onto every blog unfortunately. Those comments were lost with the switch over. But, we are making forum posts for all new blogs going forward!
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The reason is because OLD blog posts used to have comment sections built into them! We can't go through years of blog posts to re-add comment sections back onto every blog unfortunately. Those comments were lost with the switch over. But, we are making forum posts for all new blogs going forward!Is there a reason that the forums for specific Blog posts don't have links from the Blog post itself?
For instance, I go to the "Introducing the Spore War Player’s Guide", and there is no link to the discussion forum.
When I go to the Spore War forums, and click on "Introducing the Spore War Player’s Guide", it takes me to the Blog, but with no access to the discussion forum.Help.
Wait, what?!! Posts were…”lost”?!! This is kinda worrying with any future “upgrades” to the forums…
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But they’re NOT gone. You can still see them in other users accounts. You can see the posts. They’re just not accessible as a thread. Thus it would be very easy to restore the threads.The reason is because OLD blog posts used to have comment sections built into them! We can't go through years of blog posts to re-add comment sections back onto every blog unfortunately. Those comments were lost with the switch over. But, we are making forum posts for all new blogs going forward!
Same with the old product discussion threads. Both product discussion threads and blog threads actually can be accessed if you go to the correct URLs, those just aren't the URLs that are being linked to in the various places where the website links to them. As such, restoring access to the threads looks like it should be quite simple at a technical level from what I'm seeing... it's really puzzling to me to see actual Paizo staff saying that the threads are no longer accessible when I (as a customer with no special access to the website) am still able to view them, albeit in a clunky and inconvenient way.
Maya, I might suggest you have another talk with your technical team regarding this, because it seems like either you've been misinformed or else your technical team themselves are misinformed or are simply not willing to put in the small amount of effort needed to restore easy access to years of discussions, some of which (like for Society scenarios especially) include developer comments and GM feedback that are incredibly helpful for GMs running the adventures in question. The threads don't have to actively be attached to the (new) live product pages and blog posts for them to still be kept accessible as a thread in the forums here.