Addon threads gone?

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Is this on purpose? No matter the game, threads for addons are just straight up gone.

It's all been restored. Moderators can feel free to lock this.

[Matt]

What is an "addon thread?"

[Cpt. Hazama]

Publicado originalmente por Matt:

What is an "addon thread?"

He's referring to the Discussions tab of workshop items.

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Publicado originalmente por Matt:

What is an "addon thread?"

On an addon, such as my gmod maps, it had a discussions tab. It's gone now, and so is the "required addons" tab on the side.

[Matt]

You're saying every workshop item had a dedicated discussion forum just for that one item?

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Publicado originalmente por Matt:

You're saying every workshop item had a dedicated discussion forum just for that one item?

Uh... yeah? They've had this for years.

Here's an example of one map https://i.imgur.com/GL8e1tU.png https://i.imgur.com/txDcmqP.png

[Wizardhermit]

Never realized that was a thing.

What the hell?

That's such a backwards thing, I hope this isn't changed permanently, so many discussions would be lost, and the ability to communicate with the addon creator for features and bug hunting.

[wibblywobblywonder]

I made another thread about this without knowing of this one. Anyway, here's copy paste of what I said:

Until very recently there was a separate tabbed 'Discussions' section on mod pages where distinct topics could be discussed at greater length, away from the usual comments section.

However, it is now gone.

I absolutely need this separate Discussions section for my mod pages. I have perhaps 11,000+ subscribers across multiple mods. These are relatively complex mods that completely overhaul strategy games and have multiple moving parts so to speak. As you can imagine a tabbed discussion page helps enormously in keeping track of bugs, posting FAQs, explaining in more depth certain design decisions or gameplay mechanics, and so on.

The loss of what I consider a quite basic, yet absolutely essential, feature from my Steam mod pages makes hosting and maintaining my mods that much more of a burden that I am now increasingly reconsidering.

I'd like to know if this is a temporary bug or a new permanent feature.

[Arsenal[26]]

yeah... what he said.... come on Steam... can we get it back please ?

[Azure Fang]

What. The. ♥♥♥♥.

Many authors have used the discussions tab for bug reporting/report corralling, extended feature documentation, extended FAQs, and more. I personally used it to discuss how to mitigate damage to existing saves when uninstalling mods, to trigger mod effects for pre-existing saves, or to openly coach certain coding/writing methods when comment character limits were not sufficient and to prevent visibility loss due to comment push. They were also immensely useful as containment to prevent official forums from being flooded with dedicated mod discussion.

This is a huge blow to existing modding communities and I pray it's a mistake.

[UltimateTobi]

I noticed this as well.
But seriously, even a moderator didn't know this existed? Was it that niche? LOL.

It was quite frequented, given how many discussions have been had in various mods' Discussion tabs I've visited.

OP: You might wanna change the topic title to something more accurate, for example "Workshop Discussions & Comments Pages/Tabs Missing"

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Publicado originalmente por UltimateTobi:

I noticed this as well.
But seriously, even a moderator didn't know this existed? Was it that niche? LOL.

It was quite frequented, given how many discussions have been had in various mods' Discussion tabs I've visited.

Yeah I was surprised too, especially since said moderator has been around here since 2003.

[UltimateTobi]

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Publicado originalmente por UltimateTobi:

I noticed this as well.
But seriously, even a moderator didn't know this existed? Was it that niche? LOL.

It was quite frequented, given how many discussions have been had in various mods' Discussion tabs I've visited.

Yeah I was surprised too, especially since said moderator has been around here since 2003.

I edited my post for a suggestion for a better matching thread title.

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Publicado originalmente por UltimateTobi:

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Yeah I was surprised too, especially since said moderator has been around here since 2003.

I edited my post for a suggestion for a better matching thread title.

Eh, most people got what I meant with the original title.

[Atlas]

Publicado originalmente por Lily McFluffy Butt:

Is this on purpose? No matter the game, threads for addons are just straight up gone.

As a secondary note. Many mod authors have been left blindsided by this change. And while im assuming it's a bug, it's a wildly silly bug. 200k subscribers across mods and im struggling to direct traffic anywhere.