Anybody else notice we've lost some forum sections?

General Discussions
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Mainly in the PlexPass section.

Regards

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Seems to be showing for me. On the right of the main page there is the “Category Filter”, perhaps this is set to “followed categories” instead of all?

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No category filter, just found some of them in the Archive section.

Regards

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This is intentional.
The goal is to reduce the number of subforums.

Some of the forums were not noticed by a lot of users, some lost their purpose recently.
Some were treated by many users as a dumping grounds for all kinds of issues. So if the issues are distrubuted across several subfourms, why not merge these forums?
That is what was just done.

Some work is yet to be done, like changing forum ‘labels’ and tidying things up here and there.
But ultimately, we will end up with a better forum.

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Beat me to it! Yes, there’s been some Spring cleaning over the past month or two. Mobile Sync and Cloud Sync were closed to new discussions for over a month, with a message at the top providing an explanation. PHT Preview and Win/WP Preview were merged into their regular app forums with nothing lost. Also, Ask a Ninja was merged with General Discussions (Plex Pass).

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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 It should be zero surprise that they’ve finally been archived because we warned they would be.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.)