Remove individual youtube channel links from tutorials page #10023
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I agree. This was more useful when Godot was smaller and Godot-specific content harder to find, now it just is a small and always quickly outdated selection.
The whole community resources section needs to be overhauled, and this is a good first step. Socials and especially the website are a better place to highlight creators and useful, up to date tutorials.
Signs of Godot growth :)
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Well, let's do this then. Thanks! |
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Cherry-picked to 4.3 in #10038. |
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Does what the title says.
Currently on the community tutorial page we link to individual youtube channels that provide Godot tutorials. I believe we should stop doing things this way for several reasons.
One, the foundation has to review any PR that adds a channel to this page. I'm not against that but the foundation doesn't seem to be actually reviewing anything. The oldest open video PR is from April this year which is almost 5 months old. I'm not saying this to criticize the foundation for not doing this, merely pointing out that the process has created a backlog. I also think their time is better spent elsewhere for this next reason.
Two, going to our tutorials page is less efficient than just going to YouTube and searching for videos. On the tutorials page we only break down creators into broad categories, "2D" covers a wide array of topics. If someone was trying to find a creator going over, for example, tilemaps, it's not easy to find out who is doing that without going through every channel. And in comparison if someone goes straight to YouTube they just have to search for "Godot TileMapLayer" tutorial to immediately find several relevant results.
There's currently only one video tutorial on the page that links somewhere other than YouTube that I've also removed. It just feels odd to keep that linked when there's no other sites we also link to. Though I'm not against re-adding it to this PR.
I welcome all discussion on if these channel links should be removed or not.
Lastly, I've also edited the sentence before the video section to sound better.