TDN, Forums, and You

As many have heard, TDN is now in semi-closed beta (you have to own a Torque licensed product, such as one of the engines), and it's time to slowly nag people over to the new documentation area!

One thing I would like to make extremely clear: Currently, we have a skeleton--and it's not a skeleton of an elephant, it's roughly a mouse and a half! What that means however is that we need the community---you---to start using it, and to most importantly start fleshing it out so that it becomes more and more useful.

Many of us are extremely used to looking here on the forums, posting our questions, etc. What we now want you to become used to is to looking over at TDN when you have a question, and looking there first. Of course, since we are barely beginning in content in comparison to the information here in the forums, you probably won't find what you are looking for--but that's OK! You, and the community as a whole, will have a couple of benefits by getting into this habit:

1) You will get used to looking at TDN as a habit, and since over time the documentation will be moving there, it will be second nature to you by the time TDN reaches efficient research functionality.

2) If you don't find what you are looking for there, but you do here, hopefully you will take just a few minutes, go back to TDN, and at a minimum create a wikiword or mini-article that describes what you found here (even if you just link back to it for now, that's ok, although we hope that you will take a few minutes and post the actual solution there as well).

3) You may just start looking at similar topics (or even unrelated ones!) and learn a thing or two you didn't even know you didn't know.

4) Finally, you may just get motivated to post something completely unrelated to what your original question was, because just about everyone has something that they've learned, and can pass back to the rest of the community.

Wiki's survive, grow, and become incredibly useful when they are used--and since it's so new to all of us, it can be difficult to get used to using ours, so please spend just a little time every chance you get and add to it slowly but surely. Before we know it, TDN will be an incredibly powerful and benefical community resource if we each take just a little bit of time to make it grow.

Thanks!