Forum behavior of auto close in Help section yields unsolved help requests

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Use case or problem

The auto close after X days forum feature causes requests for help go permanently unanswered and yields new users, such as myself, to assume the Help section is an unreliable resource.

When this happens on feature requests, it excludes new users from adding their +1 to unimplemented features and conveys a feeling that if the devs ignore a requested feature long enough, it will get auto closed and brushed into the Feature Archive.

Examples:

Include full path in linked mentions?

I use meaningful folders and I’d like to see the full path in linked mentions—both folders and filenames, not just filenames. For example, two folders: AcmeCorp/ProjectA/index.md AcmeCorp/ProjectB/index.md I don’t want to just see “index.md” in linked mentions—I want to see the full pathname, because ProjectA and ProjectB are two separate folders, and their seprate index.md documents are very different. Is that possible? Thanks!

Ignore a folder of temporary notes

+1 to a need for an .obsidianignore

Config to ignore/hide select files and folders

Does this mean that obsidian will no longer index these files or just that it will index them and then push down the priority? For users who use their obsidian vault interspersed within an existing file system with many files, ignoring to not index is quite valuable since obsidian has an issue with the number of files in my vault and will only load if I hide the file-heavy folder. I really want Obsidian to just pretend that folder doesn’t exist rather than push down the priority but I don’t thin…

Proposed solution

Allow (remind) the poster to mark the request as resolved.
If it is a feature request, include in the auto close if the feature was accepted/denied.
or
Don’t use forum auto close.

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Relevant discussion: Why do Forum topics close after 30 days? - #5 by Silver

Feature Requests don’t auto close. The one you linked to as an example was reportedly implemented, and marked as closed manually.

One of the help examples you linked was closed, but has a link to the relevant feature request, which is still open.

Help requests do close after 3 months. We made it that way because Obsidian is evolving at a fast pace.