PSA concerning pinned topics on the new forum layout

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You can click on the pin yourself to unpin it. While it’ll still show up, you won’t see the paragraph preview.

At least, that’s what it’s doing for me.

Figured I’d test it out, as I’ve seen people say that the pins take up a lot of room at the top, due to that paragraph.

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I unpinned it and it’s still the same.

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The paragraph preview under the title didn’t go away? Because it did for me.

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nvm i had to ctrl+f5 then it did. thanks!

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Thank you!! The paragraph preview was too chonky for me. Unpinning was exactly what I needed to get back to the ‘normal’ forum feel.

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Useful information. Thank you.

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So much better. Thanks!

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Thank you so much.

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All these changes and they still can’t post a “hotfixes” that starts at the top of the page?

Makes me wonder, behind the scenes, what motivates these kinds of changes…

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I’m not sure I follow. Hotfixes is pinned at the top of the page.

Also: forum changes are not done by Blizzard. This system is owned by Discourse and they do the updates.

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Worked perfectly!

Thank you!

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Ah, that worked for me. Thanks!

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I should have been more clear. When they publish a new “hotfixes” and you click it, it doesn’t go to the top of the page where the new hotfixes are, instead it goes to the first hotfix since the thread was created (until very recently, that was a hotfixes post from last October), and you have to scroll to the top of the page to see the new info. Easy fix, they just need to make a minor change to how they post those threads. I just find it ironic that the simplest of changes won’t happen, but things like this come along.

I understand Discourse makes the forum software. Blizzard, as the owner/user, can configure it differently if they choose. Their web team seems barely able to use it, so I don’t expect much.

Discourse isn’t a static monolith. The end user has to control most of the features.

Check these out, they are ALL Discourse forums:

https://forum.gitlab.com/

https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/

https://community.openai.com/

https://discuss.elastic.co/

https://forums.docker.com/

https://forums.unrealengine.com/categories?tag=unreal-engine

Notice how these look nothing like the Warcraft forums.

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Well, that would have to be a change to how topics work, which is on Discourse’s end.

From what we’ve been told, Discourse maintains the forum software and the updates.

I’m not sure what that has to do with this forum and Discourse maintaining it for Blizz.

While there are some tweaks that can be done, base code is maintained by Discourse itself, as far as we’ve been told. Including the banner, iirc. As I vaguely remember a response once being that it’s a change submitted to Discourse.

But I’m not here to argue about this. I just wanted to give people a way to help out with pinned posts.

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All I’m saying is the forum is far more configurable than you are giving it credit for.

Do you feel like we are arguing? I guess it is starting to feel that way on my end now lol

Did you look at my links? Those are also Discourse forums, that work and behave very very differently than this one, so it’s not like we can just throw our hands up and go “whelp, thats how Discourse is, and it’s their software, so nothing Blizz can do!”. It is extremely configurable. And simply changing how the person responsible for “hotfixes” could make a simple change to HOW they post, and it wouldn’t even be a problem in the first place.