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If the year is missing, it means that it is the current year. The year gets added for posts from previous years
The flagging system is indeed the way to go here.
There is a @Forum_Moderators_2024 group. We are planning to extend it with new moderators. This will be most likely based on the monthly Forum rewards winners who had additionally shown moderator-like activity (i.e. flagging topics, renaming unclear topics titles, moving topics to proper categories).
There is a share button on each post. When you click it, it will automatically open a composer for you with a pre-filled reference to the particular post
There is a partial workaround to access only new topics without an answer with some URL magic See below:
https://forum.uipath.com/new?solved=no
This will most likely still cause the Dismiss New button to dismiss all topics rather than just the ones displayed, but should help out when looking for new topics.
We can also create a custom view as part of the Forum reports if you’d like.
This is certainly something that we feel more confident having as part of the Forum reports. Check them out
This sounds awesome. I would say that a lot of it could be prepared by our Community themselves. We have the Random and other categories category where you could create all kinds of topics and engage other users with fun ideas!