Unity Blogs - Clarification

We have changed the way Blogs are displayed at Unity. Blogs are no longer displayed at Unity Homepage and even Blogs Homepage (unless you browse by tag). Explanation:

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With this change we are trying to move all discussions to where they belong - Forums. It's an experiment and may be retracted, but we want to observe how it goes for a few days.

Rationale behind this move is simple - too often Blogs are used to engage other members into a discussion via comments, but they are not designed for this. New comments don't "bump up" the post and due to "replies" they may be not chronologically ordered. As a result, many insightful comments are overlooked.

We still need blogs, however, to let people post content that doesn't, per se, require a discussion (opinion, advice, tutorials, critique, etc). We would suggest linking to your Blog posts from forums if you would like to discuss them. By making Blogs more "personal" to every member, we would also be able to loosen some Blogs moderation rules (hopefully).

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This article gives a good description of differences between Blogs and Forums.

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Again, recent update is for the most part experimental, both in terms of Blogs and Staff Picks. We welcome your input as we search for the best ways to a perfect balance and harmony here at Unity.