Thread Locking

[DGSketcher]

I appreciate the intent of thread locking and I do support it in principle, but I think the 12 month inactive locking rule is a bit quick in the big scheme of AC development. Comments made on AC27's release could be locked when AC28 turns up, but I note from past comments some users actually delay deployment of AC by a year to avoid bugs. Those users may then connect with the old problem and not be able to discuss the related issue. Personally I would have thought a minimum two year lock window was more realistic.

I also think it is perhaps inappropriate to be locking the wishes threads. There are ideas in those threads that are still being requested and commented on after MANY years. Allowing further comments allows users to highlight how long the missing idea has been requested or how it could be adapted in more recent versions of AC. If a wish is solved (or implemented in an update) then lock them, but until then I feel we should be allowed to continue commenting. 

[Noemi Balogh]

Thank you for your feedback. The current 1-year period is something we agreed together with the Moderator team, but of course, we can revisit any time. Please note that the 1 year is counted from the last activity - if people keep posting on a thread - in your example, about Archicad 27 - then this thread won't be locked. In case you experience different behaviour, please let me know.

About the Wishes board, I understand your point, but in my personal opinion when a thread is abandoned for years, it is better to start a fresh one, so the topic gets its visibility. Previous threads will be available in the system and it can be tracked down anytime later.

What I would like to ask is that we give it a try - if in a couple of months we see this leads nowhere good, I can adjust the system.

Thank you again and I hope you can find some good improvements too in the recent changes.

[Lingwisyer]

Given the entire Developer Forum has been locked, where are GDL questions supposed to be asked? And I guess API questions get pushed over to the archicadAPI site, though I do not recall there being a place there either...

[Noemi Balogh]

@Lingwisyer good catch, I forgot to unlock it. Now you can use it again.