When will Mac Guides Return?

Good news. Who will do that? And once they are finished we can create our own guides again instead of using posts to have guides in like some basterds use to do?

 

I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Some people in the iOS 8 forum are already doing this. Example.

 

Sorry, meant the original guides, that were separate from the forums in some way. But maybe I am also just mistaken.

As I have many posts being guides I always wanted to create guides in the Guide section of, but was a bit thrown off by its editing tools.
But if Wiki guides always have to be new threads, then that is an option too.

Did I make myself clearer?

 

Existing threads can be turned into Wiki threads, but they remain in the regular forums and not in the Guides section.

If you're not the OP of a thread that you want to make a Wiki, report it too us and we'll review it and make a decision to turn it into a Wiki thread for you. If you're the OP of said thread, you can turn it into a Wiki right now if you like.

 

Ahhhhhh, Thanks.

And just to make sure, the Wiki Guides will stay in the sub-forums as discussed in that other thread with arn? Or will there ever be a Wiki Guide section like the old Guides section?

 

From what Arn was saying, we, or someone, could make a Wiki thread of Wiki threads in each sub-forum and we'd make it sticky. This thread would list all the Wiki threads in that forum for quick reference. That's because there, currently, isn't a good way to keep all the Wiki threads available near the top of a forum.

 

Is there a plan to change former guides to wikis?

Not sure if this is being addressed but as an "older" user I used to love the guides that were at the top of the forum pages. I can't find them anymore except for at guides.macrumors.com. Are there plans to systematically change all the 132 guides that members worked on into a wiki (ie: http://guides.macrumors.com/Category:Guides)?

There is still some good info in those guides even if some of them are a bit outdated. Case in point: a guide that I spent a lot of time on, "Booting Windows on the Mac", while outdated, does have some very fundamental information in it that I think is helpful to users. Most of the guides are similar and I think it would be sad to just completely remove them from the site.

Thoughts?

 

They do. They say Wiki in bold before the thread title and a disclaimer at the top of the first post.

 

It could be a system error thing. You aren't the first person I've seen say this - you're the second one.

I turned the thread you linked to above into a Wiki now.

 

I have every reason to believe that this is correct - the software powering the old Guides hasn't been updated since "the dark ages" and is thus unsafe. Arn would know for sure.