From the sounds of it over at AUGI there is little or no chance that the Forum history is coming back prior to 2013. And there is some small validity to the fact that the history was a mix of great and still pertinent information, no longer valid information, and down right bad information, and not much to help separate the wheat from the chafe other than the rep and post count of the person posting.
But the need for the good info is still there, and getting greater every day. I suspect the total number of new users will remain greater than the total number of all users just a few years prior. Those users will need info, and will hopefully be looking here. Rather than us spending the next 5 years slowly accreting that info, I wonder if we might accelerate the process? If we could identify some number of topics that every new user/office needs to know about, then divy up those topics between us, we could get a good start. We all add to any topics we are interested in, but we make a list and each one has a champion. And the posts would be curated/edited, so that the information remains appropriate for the current version of Revit, or at least mentions when it is information that was superseded at some point.
What do you all think? I know much has been said at the other place of those with knowledge not wanting to bother rebuilding that history and that is why they have to get the history back. But I think we all really still want to support each other and new users. Maybe this is a chance to actually improve how that happens? Iru69 has a start already with the North stuff, I am thinking we could just be even more intentional about getting things started. I am going to put together a "gotchas" list to get the ball rolling. And I would be happy to take on a graphics hardware thread, with input from everyone so we get good representation as far as GPUs, manufacturers, etc.
Gordon
But the need for the good info is still there, and getting greater every day. I suspect the total number of new users will remain greater than the total number of all users just a few years prior. Those users will need info, and will hopefully be looking here. Rather than us spending the next 5 years slowly accreting that info, I wonder if we might accelerate the process? If we could identify some number of topics that every new user/office needs to know about, then divy up those topics between us, we could get a good start. We all add to any topics we are interested in, but we make a list and each one has a champion. And the posts would be curated/edited, so that the information remains appropriate for the current version of Revit, or at least mentions when it is information that was superseded at some point.
What do you all think? I know much has been said at the other place of those with knowledge not wanting to bother rebuilding that history and that is why they have to get the history back. But I think we all really still want to support each other and new users. Maybe this is a chance to actually improve how that happens? Iru69 has a start already with the North stuff, I am thinking we could just be even more intentional about getting things started. I am going to put together a "gotchas" list to get the ball rolling. And I would be happy to take on a graphics hardware thread, with input from everyone so we get good representation as far as GPUs, manufacturers, etc.
Gordon
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