🎥 What a forum thread looks like (were you to scroll it before posting)

[Crease]

This makes me think of all the people losing their because they think Wyze is forcibly violating them with the changes to Cam v3’s UI or all the ing and gnashing of that followed the Wyze app v3’s launch last year. In both instances, the changes seemed to result in a bumper crop of new topics from (often new) users and unwilling to spend the time finding the appropriate existing topic (and often accompanying solution) before posting their own angry (and frequently misinformed) rants and conspiracy theory speculations.

I completely agree that those aren’t very useful, and they’re frustrating for me to see, too.

I like that you feel free to express your own exasperation here, and I think I have a little better understanding of what you were suggesting in your initial post and title, though I wonder if a <vent> would be better categorized in Watercooler.

The other thing that occurred to me as I’m replying is the way Discourse has in the past suggested existing topics that might be a good fit when someone begins typing out a new topic. That’s what I’ve seen in the right preview pane when using the “standard Markdown editor”, and I imagine a lot of people just ignored those. Now with the “new rich text editor” (which I believe is the default, but it’s not what I prefer to use), I don’t know if those same suggestions are presented, and I wonder if that contributes to the repetitive topic overload. I haven’t tested and don’t know the answer to that.

Humans are going to be humans in any case, so we have to take the bad with the good, I reckon.