Seems like a community in the tech arena that does not refresh itself frequently is pretty much useless. Just entered a query and the answers were over three years old...
MacBook Neo 13″, macOS 26.5
Understandable. Writing an effective Apple Support Communities question - Apple Community offers some suggestions on how to best exploit this resource, such as this one regarding Search.
Caveat: Beware that this support site does not sort answers chronologically by default. Check the date of the particular answer you find. If it's anything more than a few weeks old, its shelf life should be considered expired. If your initial search results reveal Discussions that have been inactive for ages, it's almost certain to be totally irrelevant. Keep searching. Available search options include sorting by date or relevance. Try both.
You posted in the forum titled "Earlier Operating Systems", so a suggestion from a post 3 years ago may actually be too recent for your query. If you have a technical support question, all you need to do is ask it and provide the OS version you are referring to. It really is that simple.
When I am thinking about an Earlier Operating System, I would expect to see posts about Mojave, Big Sur, Monterey, etc, not one that was released just last year as indicated by your tag line.
You may also need to be more precise in your phrasing of a question. If you ask something such as, "Why won't my Mac start?" that could be about any computer made since Apple began. In general though, if I need to ask a question here I start by carefully selecting which community I think may be appropriate and then just almost always ignore the suggested threads. Things change a lot and unless you provide information that specifies model and system versions then you may end up with outdated answers. We (and the automated systems here) only know what you tell us and we sometimes have to make assumptions or wild guesses if we are not really provided with much information.
Samuel-F wrote:
It's pretty useful in fact, we helped thousands of users right here and learned a lot ! Sometimes we can't help but that doesn’t mean that we are "useless" !
Hello~ Agreed…well done.
~Katana-San~
Hello~ Do you have a technical question for us now? If you don’t find this community helpful as I do… simply stop using it.
~Katana-San~
It's pretty useful in fact, we helped thousands of users right here and learned a lot ! Sometimes we can't help but that doesn’t mean that we are "useless" !
FYI I asked that it be relocated to https://discussions.apple.com/community/using_apple_support_communities/
Usefulnes of the "community" approach to tech help.
