Posting failure?

Rob · February 9, 2019, 5:28pm

That post is appearing correctly. You posted it under the Show sub-category as opposed to Ask.

Jayy_Ron · February 9, 2019, 5:30pm

Oh it had to be Asked to show up in the community discussion? kinda counter intuitive but how to i switch it so ask and have it appear on the community discussion for people to try?

Rob · February 9, 2019, 5:49pm

I’m sorry Jayy I don’t understand.

The Ask sub-category isn’t where you ask if your post can go somewhere, it’s just where you post your questions.

If you don’t have a question and your topic is just a general conversation, then you’d post under Talk.

If you are showcasing something you have worked on, and again it isn’t a question, you’d post it under Show.

Make sense?

Jayy_Ron · February 9, 2019, 5:50pm

My question is why isnt this shown in the discussion for people to see when i made it a new topic?

Rob · February 9, 2019, 5:52pm

It is/was, it needs moving back out of Ask to Show now though.

I suspect you are referring to the summary view of Latest posts aren’t you, e.g. you can’t see it there, if however you click on the Show sub-category link you will see a list of all topics in that area, you topic will be there (once moved back).

Jayy_Ron · February 9, 2019, 5:53pm

See how the discussion we are having has a place where it was published on at the top right of this section

and then the one i published isnt marked to anywhere

Rob · February 9, 2019, 5:54pm

I have just moved it back to Show.

Rob · February 9, 2019, 5:55pm

Do you mean top-left?

Jayy_Ron · February 9, 2019, 5:55pm

yeah sorry top left. 32_pb_cu2.

Jayy_Ron · February 9, 2019, 5:56pm

the only reason i found it was because i went on my profile and looked in my activity

Rob · February 9, 2019, 6:28pm

Ok, so looking at those details, it goes like this;

Category / Sub- Category / Optional Tag

The first two are more important.

If you want to add a tag, for a specific lecture that you’re posting your work about you can, by adding a tag, although be aware that tags are currently in a state of flux as the forum changes are taking place. Whether Ben has completed this process yet I do not know.

People will see your post under Show from the left hand navigation, e.g the sub-category under the main category Unity.

Jayy_Ron · February 9, 2019, 6:01pm

Ah that worked. And for the tags ill just post in different places like discord and stuff for more feedback. Thanks Rob

Rob · February 9, 2019, 6:13pm

Please don’t duplicate your post (on the forum), there is no need to. I delete duplications and I don’t need the extra work

Jayy_Ron · February 9, 2019, 6:13pm

Not on here. Discord or other pages is wt i meant.

Rob · February 9, 2019, 6:16pm

Ah I see yes, that’s cool, ideally use the URL from your post here in the forum and link people back to it.

Consider engaging and topic titles with a high level of readability also. Avoid suffixes/prefixes and keep the main description in the body of the post.

Images and video need to be placed on new lines without any preceding characters in order to embed. Files over 10MB will not be successfully uploaded so in those cases consider using services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and YouTube etc.

Jayy_Ron · February 9, 2019, 6:19pm

so if i have large clips like 20 seconds or more then uploading them on youtube will work?

Rob · February 9, 2019, 6:28pm

Sure, record them, upload them to your YouTube channel (be wary of the names/text in descriptions), then just copy/paste the URL of the video from YouTube into your topic here and the video will be embedded, users can just click play to watch it without leaving the forum.