As time passes, game discussion threads and guides/tutorial threads become obsolete and need to be updated. At the moment, the only person that can update one of these threads is the OP, which might not be active on the forums anymore or might not know an update is required. The solution we currently have is to recreate the threads when they become obsolete. That's obviously not an ideal solution as the problem will reappear again when the new OP will become inactive.
However, Dolphin also has another way to publish guides and informations about games: the wiki. It already contains a lot of things about games that are not mentioned in game threads. But some of it is also obsolete and needs updating. It could do with a lot more contributors taking time to review articles and creating new content.
My idea to fix these two issues, as well as the problem of the duplicated content (some things are both in the wiki and in forum threads, which is again not ideal), would be to "embed" a wiki page as the first post of a forum thread. Basically, instead of having the content of the game thread/guide on the forums, it would be hosted on the wiki and the forum would display the wiki page in the first post (styled to look good on the forums).
This will require a bit of work on our side to work properly (I haven't seen any plugin for mybb that does that, so I'll have to implement it myself, which shouldn't be that hard) but will be a fix for the 3 issues I mentioned earlier.
I'd like to get your feedback about that idea to know of potential problems I might not have thought about. If everyone is ok with that I'll start implementing it as soon as possible
However, Dolphin also has another way to publish guides and informations about games: the wiki. It already contains a lot of things about games that are not mentioned in game threads. But some of it is also obsolete and needs updating. It could do with a lot more contributors taking time to review articles and creating new content.
My idea to fix these two issues, as well as the problem of the duplicated content (some things are both in the wiki and in forum threads, which is again not ideal), would be to "embed" a wiki page as the first post of a forum thread. Basically, instead of having the content of the game thread/guide on the forums, it would be hosted on the wiki and the forum would display the wiki page in the first post (styled to look good on the forums).
This will require a bit of work on our side to work properly (I haven't seen any plugin for mybb that does that, so I'll have to implement it myself, which shouldn't be that hard) but will be a fix for the 3 issues I mentioned earlier.
I'd like to get your feedback about that idea to know of potential problems I might not have thought about. If everyone is ok with that I'll start implementing it as soon as possible
