⚗️ Testing Something New: Announcements Are Back

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The Announcements category will start being used again for important updates from the Trakt team.

Over time, that category slowly became deserted. Each announcement would turn into a megathread, which made conversations difficult to navigate and even harder to moderate. Eventually we locked it down so nobody could reply, which defeated the purpose of having a discussion space.

Starting today, I’m testing a new approach: replies in Announcements are now open to VIP only.

The goal is to keep announcements focused and readable, while still allowing thoughtful discussion and feedback from our most engaged users.

:wrench: More Forum Tweaks Coming

This is part of a broader effort to improve how the forums are organized.

Over the next few days, you may notice some categories being shuffled around, renamed, or reorganized. The goal is simply to make things easier to find and more useful for everyone.

As always, we’ll keep iterating based on how things work in practice.

Thanks for being part of the community :raising_hands:

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Why not just have an Announcement, and an Announcement megathread? Any important follow up in the megathread from Trakt mods etc could be quoted as a reply to the main announcement. That keeps things organised and readable, with the most important information always in one place, while still ensuring all users have a voice.

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Not using the announcements category is no one’s fault but your own.

It was already not possible for anyone to comment on announcements anymore.

Kinda odd to make it now vip only tbh if it concerns trakt as a whole.

If it’s vip only, use the vip only category :light_bulb: :brain:

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The cynic in me agrees, but mostly because the only changes in these announcements as of late are reductions in benefits to paying VIPs.

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