Although the amount of people posting help requests on WordPress has not reduced, the amount of people answering seems to have diminished. Not just on my posts, but on others’ as well. For those who observe and notice patterns, is there any causative event that you can point to like “This world event happened \[fill in the blank\] which ultimately led to less people being able to help in the sub”?
For instance, would the war in Israel have any significant effect?
Also, for reference – it’s not just on my posts, but I looked at others and most of the posts posted in the last 24 hours don’t have any response, or 1 at most, and in most cases not a good one (an unhelpful one-liner usually).
Yes, in one sense I’m saying “Where has all the free help gone?”, but I pay for the pro version of many popular / expensive plugins and their support isn’t always that great. So, often the advice and insight I’ve gained here has been a lifesaver when I was metaphorically drowning and neither Google nor the plugin publisher were of any useful assistance.
Perhaps this week is a holiday in one of the countries that contributes the most answers to this forum.
I’m just trying to understand what is going on.
Would love to hear if anyone else has had similar observations.
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Blame it to reddit algorithm + timezone differences + highly repeated questions + people not willing to put enough effort at searching simple solutions.
I am very new here, but I’ve seen a lot of questions that could have found there answer on the 1st google search result.
Ramadan started on the 10th of March. You might consider that.
Also, a lot of us are full time developers, in my case, I also own an agency. I don’t have quite as much time during busy weeks to hop on and give in depth answers, particularly to so many that haven’t taken the time to google it. Seems rude to post [Let Me Google That For You](https://letmegooglethat.com/). Additionally many people seeking support move to DMs and they get very involved, this also impacts the time available to hop in the sub and post lengthy in depth responses.
Personally I have 4 site launches this week, and over the next two weeks have to wrap and launch a handful of others, once they get through QA, provided no delays come up due to issues – client side or dev.
>but I pay for the pro version of many popular / expensive plugins and their support isn’t always that great.
Then the obvious question is, why did you pay for them? If their support sucks, don’t buy them.
You might try the support forum on [wordpress.org](https://wordpress.org). I think you’ll find more wordpress helpers there.
[https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
A common feature of help requests that I’ve noticed is that no url is given. Helpers are not psychic, they need to see the relevant page so they can examine the styles and markup. An image won’t do.
I see a lot of posts with a subject of “Help!” And then some extraordinarily vague request that would require so much context to even understand. I always scroll past these bc I just don’t have the time for the back and forth.
Maybe the mods can implement something that bans short subject lines and encourages the user to submit specific details? Reddit moderation is not something I’m familiar with so I’m not sure how that works.
Personally I’m much more willing to help if I can immediately grasp what’s being asked.
Ramadan, is only for about 20% of the world’s population.
So I doubt anything to do with that.
Also. The war on Gaza has nothing and I mean absolutely nothing to do with this. That doesn’t impact event .10% of the worlds population and I mean not 10% but ZERO.TEN Percent if that even
Also NEVER EVER BUY A PLUGIN FROM A COMPANY THAT DOES NOT have SUPPORT PREMIUM.