Community Forum Preview
👋 Hey all!
We’re launching a preview of our Community Forums. You can check it out at https://community.railway.app/. You can ask questions and get help on the forums at https://community.railway.app/discuss/topic/questions.
Our ultimate goal is to give you a cohesive Railway experience across the board, and we believe that should extend to every facet of the product, especially community. We aim to build and foster something that's more than "just a regular forum" with y’all, and this is the early days of it.
We can't build this without you, so please roam around and feel free to drop any feedback, thoughts, feature requests, and questions. We love feedback so we'll take anything you have!
Check it out and let us know what you think in https://community.railway.app/discuss/thread/community-forum-preview-fe921684 <a:party_railway:812486353853218816>
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Is the plan to close/replace Discord with this new forum at some point?
Well, the plan as I understand it is to replace the #✋｜help and #🤗｜feedback channels. The community channels aren't going anywhere to my knowledge.
^ yep, that is correct. In the long run, this will replace #✋｜help, #🤗｜feedback, and https://feedback.railway.app
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#🚅｜priority-boarding + #🖲｜api as well
Other Discord channels will remain
Yes,that's the plan
Or just have discord still handle forums, and then mirror everything that's on discord, into your forum for seo juice :p
seo juice 💀
thank the lord
💀
there's only like 2,500 help threads...
Enough for SEO juice ngl. Also might be easier to make the discord server more active as well.
Mirror posts with a correct answer only. You can end each post with "Continue the conversation on discord" and that way all conversation will be in place too 👀
Essentially have the forum be a backup for success answers from Discord xD
What do you think the experience is going to be like, talking on the railway forum
its explicitly non-realtime, whereas discord's forum is explicitly realtime
brody doesn't get to actually have conversations with people
but will people potentially actually use their brains when asking questions then?
like when you send an email you don't send it in 55 parts like a text message, you say a whole bunch of things in one message and then wait for a response
You mean exactly like you did here? 🤣
correcr
soon ™️
I cannot set a username, it gives me an error:
The username "Georgy" is not valid.
Can you guys please help me with this? 😦
try setting it lowercase as "gregory"
Georgy, not Gregory 😉
Yes, I’ve tried it, but got the same error.
Sorry, my bad.
I can't read sometimes! 😅
It's possible that someone else already has it?
No worries, people from the US often make this mistake for some reason 😅
I just confirmed my point.
@Georgy saw your automodded message, you'd probably get a popup about that
I really dislike these inappropriate words detection systems.
yeah, they're sometimes a bit odd, but they have caught stuff, so
Yeah, I get the appeal, but they often make mistakes. Also what is wrong with the word “огgy”? We are all adults here.
I just notified the eng responsible for the usernames, so just sit tight, and he will get back to you as soon as he is able
wait How'd you bypass that just now lmao
We are going into the end of the holiday weekend here in the US.
the end???
The start... Shut up Brody, I'm tired! 🤣
They are very US-centric, I believe — at least most of them. People often get errors by using their real names lol. Do you know that many Thai names have “t1ttу” in them?
yeah, that is kind of unfortunate
but I don't think it blocked your name
Thanks, but keep on mine I reserved my name lmao 😂
I bet it did 99%. I can't check it, because I don’t know the URL for community profiles.
It would have given you a popup error message.
I’ve used Cyrillic letters 😅
can you do that in the username field?
It did.
Hi
I think the error message should specifically say "NSFW", so that's weird.
Even if I could, I won’t because, well, that is bad UX lol
Aha, Faraz has arrived
Will manually add it when at my desk again.
Wanna set it to something else for now so it’s easy for me to find?
Thanks a ton!
Do you have friends at Facebook by any chance? I cannot use my name in the username there either 😂
Like farazchangethis or something
allow conductors to approve usernames!!
Yeah, will do.
It's “fzisdabest” 💀
Thanks FP! You rock!
FZ like Faraz, get it? I know I have a really good see of humor 👌🏻
Done.
and gn.
Thank you! Enjoy your night!
Hey FP, thanks for setting the username. However I cannot enable my community profile and set the “Bio” and “Website” because it gives me an NSFW error (as I’ve said, this was the issue, heh).
Oh, your website now, lmao.
gm
Save it without the website and I'll add the website manually!
I fixed it in the codebase so it should just work.
PR will be live in a bit.
gm!
Thanks a ton!
Still not working (if it’s supposed to work right now). I’ve saved without the website right now — will try it one more time later.
Update: it works, thanks one more time! ❤️