As a software engineer, with over twenty-five years of experience, I made an account to offer some reasoned suggestions about features I think are sorely needed in Infuse, which I’ve subscribed to for years. Before posting, to the community, I search for related topics because, like anyone else, I don’t like spam. I found nothing directly related to the posts I made. My posts have now been completely buried in unrelated historical posts. Is this normal for posts to this community?
I’m not sure it makes sense to merge topics into years old topics that have not been seen in years, if ever, that have very little to do with the topic being merged. Surely it doesn’t help to get features added when they’re instantly hidden in unrelated, dead topics. I could understand if it was a common request that’s muddying the conversations, but when they’re novel takes, it doesn’t seem to me that burying them is helpful to anyone, not the community, the devs, or the posters.
My posts as examples: (my much more specific titles have been lost due to the merge)
In this post, I offer a suite of five refinements for the Resume Playback settings. The suggestions are specific and interrelated. Apparently, over two years ago, someone mentioned their own ideas for the play button, which is mentioned as an aside while discussing my suggestions for entirely new playback settings. Now my post has been buried in the dustbin of history, on a marginally related suggestion that’s been seen 209 times in over two years. Since I couldn’t even find it in a search, I’m sure it’ll never be seen again.
https://community.firecore.com/t/aired-before-after-for-special-episodes/20110/23
Here I’ve suggested that Infuse stop treating season zero as regular seasons. It’s been merged into a dead 2020 topic about a new feature of Emby, which seems to have almost nothing to do with my topic aside from both being about season zero. The original topic mentions absolutely nothing of the issues I’ve presented in my, now buried, post.
Neither of the posts into which my comments were merged have any tags which show they’re on a roadmap, or being considered or tracked in any way. It seems a little counter productive to merge topics into long forgotten posts that are only tangentially related. It seems to be the opposite of the purpose of a suggestions category.
