Discussions Closed Early?

Steve_Webtron

I am new to dataTables, and as I search for issues I come across I find many of the discussions are closed, even with no solution posted.

I guess I am pretty used to Stack Overflow, where even if you find something 4 years, old, there may be a new way to do it, and perhaps a new answer, solution or work-around can be posted. Sometimes what was not possible then, is now possible due to new browsers etc...

I found two or three things that worked, in cases where I found the same question in the forums, no solution, but the discussion was closed, so I could not provide any feedback for possibly the next generation of dataTable adopters to come through and find.

Could we have a button to re-open a discussion if we have a new answer?

allan

Discussions older than a certain date (usually around 6 months) are close automatically, regardless of their state. This is to stop old discussions bubbling up to the top which was frequently happening, with outdated information.

Some discussions don't have an answer because I never managed to create time to read and answer them. Its simply impossible for me to keep up with the 40+ posts on this forum every day, and still develop code to make a living :-).

This is why posting test cases in posts is so important. In fact, I'm utterly sick of writing "please link to a test case"... Also priority support ( http://datatables.net/support ) gives me the ability to prioritise responses and for DataTables to be fully supported.

Long story short, yes its a pain having the old discussions closed, but it was more of a pain having them open... imho of course. I might reconsider this stance :-)

Allan