Anybody else notice we've lost some forum sections?

General Discussions
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To be a bit more specific, the following forums are “gone” from the Plex Pass area:

  • Mobile Sync and Cloud Sync. For both of these, discussions are much more appropriate either in the corresponding app forum (Android, iOS, Windows) or under Plex Media Server. We already closed those to new discussions well over a month ago and posted a message (that appeared at the top) explaining things in each forum. It should be zero surprise that they’ve finally been archived because we warned they would be.
  • The PHT Preview forum was merged into the regular PHT forum since there aren’t any new preview releases for that app.
  • Similarly, the Windows/Windows Phone Preview forum was merged into the regular Win/WP forum.

There were also some other changes elsewhere in the forum. Highlights:

  • LG Media Link forum was archived. (We’d previously closed it to new discussions and warned about the upcoming archiving.)
  • The Windows Phone and Plex for Windows app forums were merged together and renamed Windows Store app (for Windows and Windows Mobile).
  • In the ‘Third Party Developers’ area, we made several changes: Merged Services into the general forum, merged the scanners and agents forum, and moved (and renamed) the Skinning and UI forum up under the PHT Skins area.
  • Other Services was merged in the General Discussions (Public) forum.

As Otto mentioned, these are all efforts to improve the forums to make it easier for users to find the appropriate forums. We had lots of old, no-longer-relevant ones as well as forums which either didn’t have a clearly defined purpose or it was defined, but they simply weren’t used for that purpose at all. In those cases, we’ve generally merged forums together.

As he also mentioned, there will be some other changes in the coming days, too. These will mostly be around reorganizing where some are located, renaming some, and updating descriptions. (So, those shouldn’t be as “big” as the changes today were.)