Where are the olden days when Karthik would answer a couple dozens of questions in the morning and the forums would buzz with excitement for the rest of the day?
We understand that the new system must be much more convenient for Refs and EPs, who may need to quickly search through the official answers and save or print them as a PDF with one click.
Also, among the stated reasons for restricting asking permissions to team’s registered contacts and later extended to EPs and refs, was to reduce repeats, improve question quality, and
I find it that by having an isolated Q&A system, that not everyone is aware of and not everyone is going to periodically check, actually increases repeated questions asked here on the forum. It is great for sparking conversation as stated in the goals, but the new system doesn’t make it easier for people to follow the latest developments in the official Q&A, thus less awareness and more confusion, and repeated questions.
If it is too hard to integrate Q&A search into the vexforum search interface, could there be, at least, quick links added to the forum hamburger menu that lead to the current game manuals and Q&A portals for both VRC and IQ games?