Thread:Manic The Hedgehog/@comment-5275700-20170314171301/@comment-5275700-20170315225653

We are always looking for suggestions! Thank you.

Can you point me to the community's request to hide the discussions post count? I would like to understand more about the reasons. Thank you for restoring it, though.

Be sure to check out the staff blog post that will be published on Community Central tomorrow. It's an update on our work to design a new local navigation area, and the intent is that (when it's released) it will be on Discussions pages as well. That will create a much greater feeling of unity and connection across both parts of the community.

Later this month we'll be adding on-site notifications (showing on the white navigation/header) for Discussions, which should also help bridge the gap.

Additional categories: We don't have any plans to increase the limit beyond 10, at least right now. I see you have 9 at the moment. Can you tell me more about the ideal category list you would have? How many would seem like enough?

Wikitext and markup: We moving slowly in this area as we are looking at the options for editor technologies, to make the best "future-proof" choice. There are several different editors on Fandom already and we don't want to just add one more.

Admin-only categories for announcements, etc: Definitely a request we've had. It's something we could potentially add, but the tool we're working on to fill the role of Forum highlights might do much of the job.

Forum highlight replacement: We're working on something which is going to be a little more versatile than Forum highlights. Not many details to talk about at the moment but I'm quite excited about it.

Topics/tags connecting discussions posts and articles, and the module at the bottom of article pages: The ability to establish those specific connections (like topics do in Forum now) is on the roadmap.

We have a footer module that works like the Forum one at the bottom of every article page. It features the top 5 "trending" Discussions posts (so the content is not based on the specific article page). Activating it here would mean that the Forum "related discussions" module would stop showing. Let me know if you think that would help build connections as well. We can talk about enabling it.

Thanks again!