Forum Discussion
Hello,
Personally, I think bringing workshops back to Discord is a lot more user friendly. Having them in discord felt more welcoming to me. I don't find zoom to be as "warm". At least with the discord, i can mute the hearing/headphones in the case I have to answer a call and can't listen in at the moment. I also liked that when the workshops were done, if people had more questions and wanted to talk more, they would just stay there or move to one of the other talk channels. With zoom, once you log out, you lose that momentum and many people disappear. There's a disconnect there.
With that said, i feel that there may be an educational gap in the lack of accessibility to workshops for more creators, partners and members alike. There are some workshops (if not all) that would benefit creators in general. It would help elevate those who truly want to learn and grow their skills. Finding that happy medium and finding a place for that is important.
As for program benefits, I love the challenges, however, it would be really great in some cases to have short video tutorials to follow along to. Maybe having a "build this like this" video shared with the challenge. A great example was SpaceGlitter's Axe video for that challenge. It was nice to be able to watch and pause her video and rewind when i needed to as I built my axe. That video alone helped me tremendously in my 3D journey. I would love to see the same thing with TypeScript challenges. It would be a great way to learn TS as well.
For greater support, it would be amazing to have clearer guidelines for optimization when building a world. Besides aesthetics and mechanics, performance is crucial for player experience. It's so difficult to go into worlds and crash right away because they're not optimized. I don't want that for my world or any other world. Makes me not want to go back. I want to know, best ways to optimize and streamline so that my visitors have memorable experiences.
In all, anything that helps creators excel is a win.