Unity Answers
| Unity Answers | |
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| URL | https://answers.unity.com/index.html |
| Status | Online! |
| Archiving status | Not saved yet |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Unity Answers is a question-and-answer site for people to ask questions and get answers about working with the Unity game engine and developer platform, similar to the concept of Stack Exchange and its network of Q&A sites including Stack Overflow. Its companion is the Unity Forums for official announcements and long-form discussions.
Shutdown
On June 10, 2022 it was announced on the Unity Forums that Unity Answers was going to be shut down on June 23rd in favor of the Forums as well as its Discord instance for those looking for fast help. Answers was set to be made read-only on June 13th.
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On June 23rd, Unity Answers will be shut down permanently and will be redirected to the Unity Forums. Before shutting down, Unity Answers will enter read-only mode on Monday the 13th.
The content that was hosted on Unity Answers will no longer be publicly available after the shutdown on the 23rd of June. This includes discussions and user profile information. We will evaluate migration options after the shutdown but can’t currently commit to any migration work at this stage.
The Forums are the primary community platform for asynchronous support, insightful discussions, and information about Unity. For those looking for realtime conversations and fast responses, you can also find help from the community in our Official Discord.
Activity on Unity Answers has been declining for a long time, and while the Forums do not currently offer Unity Answers’ functionality of highlighting accepted answers, they already serve the same purpose of finding answers to questions more effectively due to their increased response rate. Closing Answers will allow us to focus our resources and improve the user experience of our community platforms in the long run.
We are working on adjustments in the Forums to help with this transition and will share our plans in the following weeks to open them up to your feedback.
We recognize that Unity Answers didn’t receive the support from our side that would have been required to help it scale with Unity’s growth, and we apologize for taking so long to act in this matter, especially to the community members and moderators who supported Answers until now. Thank you for your engagement and effort.[1]
However in response to widespread opposition to this move, the shutdown was waved off on June 15th.
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We have canceled the plan to sunset Unity Answers by June 23 and will keep it operational.
Your feedback made it clear that many of you find Unity Answers helpful. We will continue to work on improving our tools for our community and knowledge-sharing experience and make sure that we preserve and maintain existing relevant knowledge and its discoverability.
We are sorry for the disturbance that our messaging has caused. We will ensure to communicate future plans in this matter well in advance and work closely with the community to validate that we are taking the right steps to strengthen the Unity community experience. Once we have more information to share, we will start a new discussion here in the forum to invite your feedback.[2]
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