As of the past year or so, development media and teasers are almost never posted on this site anymore, usually being exclusive to social media, namely YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Many of these sites can be annoying to navigate on desktop or get links to specific posts, (especially Instagram) if you don't have an account. This is a very simple request, but could all future teasers please also be posted on this site alongside the other social media channels currently being used, ideally in the Development Media thread or another similar developer thread. It doesn't make much sense that teasers and information regarding the game aren't even put on the website for the game itself anymore. I doubt doing this would take much effort at all, and it would make things a lot easier for those of us who rarely if ever use social media, or don't have accounts on some of these sites at all.
I'd presume the move to social media has been done to be more inclusive of the people who don't spend all of their time on the update speculation thread, but I certainly agree that the decentralisation is a bit abnormal.
It's definitely to appeal to the broader audience, but at the same time it feels like they're neglecting the site that's (at least in theory) the central location for their community. Ideally, development media and teasers should be in both locations.
Completely missed this thread, sorry. Fair point, ngl. On the new forum (sadly, I still can't say when that will happen) I'll make a dedicated thread for our teasers for those users who are not on Discord or socials, but for now I'll keep dropping them either in Update speculation or Development media. Here is a complete list of channels where we usually post them: - Official Discord server: https://go.beamng.com/discord - Twitter: https://twitter.com/beamng - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeamNGPhysics/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beamng.official/ - YouTube (as community posts): https://www.youtube.com/c/beamng/community - VK (for the Russian-speaking community): https://vk.com/beamng
Thank you for the clarification. For now, could you also put future teasers in Development Media even if you put them in Update Speculation? This is because, knowing the nature of the latter thread, it'll get buried quickly and be hard to find in the future for quoting purposes.
