Thaudal

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Yes! I also got mine today! Thank you, YoYo Games! :D

 

Ever since the YYG Forum merged to the GMC, the community has been quite active and inactive in a way.

 

This doesn't make sense - the community has been quite active AND inactive? Which is it?

While I see your point, fundamentally, I don't really see any issue or "threat".

I think the main reason 90% of the GMC'ers come here, is solely for their connection with GameMaker. Of course you also have factors like it's a nice community with nice, helpful people, but we wouldn't have begun to hang around here if it wasn't for GameMaker. And a lot of the activity goes on in GameMaker:Studio subforum, because it relates directly to the most recent version of the software that we're all here because of. It wouldn't have the same focus in, say, a Facebook group. Nor would it be anywhere NEAR as organized.

I for one have been on the GMC since 2004 (though only since '05 registered), and even since the dawn of Facebook, which I also use every day, my usage of GMC has not decreased: on the contrary, I also visit GMC almost every day, and sometimes several times a day. 

Why is that?

Facebook is where I go to catch up on what WhatsHisFace got for breakfast.

GMC is where I go to catch up on GameMaker.

And Twitter is where I go to stalk Michael Dailly and Russell Kay.

Each tool has its purpose, as has always been, and always will be.

Set your updater to Beta, but don't update when new releases are presented.

 

 

Then keep an eye on the forums. If the update has issues, the forum will will be talking about them pretty quickly, if a few days go by and nobody's talking about major problems then consider it stable and update.

 

That right there is some golden advice. I've been doing the exact same thing since Studio was in beta, and it really works. Gives you the absolute best and most stable experience.

Hi, my status has been updated (downgraded?) to an 'updater' ... I was a 'reporter' previously.

 

May I know whether it limits the scope of bugs I'm able to report? I was a bit surprised because I always reported bugs in clear bullet points and supported them with screenshots. I also checked my grammar.

Exactly what I'm wondering as well.

I can still sign in to Mantis, and everything seems to work exactly like before, except I'm an "updater" instead of "reporter".

What's up with that? Is it just a change of title? Because to me, it doesn't seem like anything is different. I can still report as before.