Why can't I open a thread on the housing sub-forum here?

AnduinTryggva

See my question. I can open threads here, I can do it in Tales of Tribute sub-forum but not on housing sub-forum...

valenwood_vegan

I think it's because housing got merged into the "Game Systems" category a while back.

See https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/668568/game-systems-category-explainer#latest

But yeah it's sorta confusing and I'm not sure what's working as intended and what isn't... I can also still post in the ToT sub-forum, but not in housing.

valenwood_vegan

Also there are some recent posts and replies in housing, so it looks like some are still able to post there? Now I'm even more confused.

AnduinTryggva

I did not check if I could post on an existing thread. I just wonder why I cannot open a new one.

metheglyn

There was this thread about this issue a few days ago. Seems like it's an inconsistent issue.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/681658/can-you-access-and-post-in-the-categories-game-systems-housing-category/p1

freespirit

I posted the thread linked above and Kevin answered with this.......

"Hi all. Thank you for highlighting this. This seems like unintended behavior. The idea was to give access to still view the older housing threads, but have posting happening in the main game systems category. We got user feedback that we had too many categories, so we tried to consolidate some. But Vanilla has some odd things happening on the backend that makes interacting with the category funky.

We will look into this, but I guess the follow up question I have is, would you rather just having the housing thread back? We were trying to accommodate feedback, but if the consensus is that you would rather the housing channel back, we can do that."

So some people can make discussions and post replies but it is unintended behaviour, the way to go is to post your discussion in "Game Systems" and add the prefix [Housing] at the beginning of your thread title.

If you would like the original Housing Category back please let Kevin know, either here or in my thread!