Lately, I often notice two behaviors that risk undermining the spirit of this forum:
Users who have already decided to leave Bubble but keep jumping in just to fuel arguments and discredit.
Posts opened without any preliminary research, without reading the documentation or checking if the question has already been asked and answered.
Both situations add no real value: the first poisons the community’s atmosphere, the second clutters the forum, making it harder to find truly useful and interesting content.
Let’s remember what a forum is (or should be):
A space for constructive discussion, where experiences, solutions, and best practices are shared.
A place where we support each other, especially in difficult moments (like outages or technical issues).
A community that learns from one another’s mistakes and successes, not a container for venting or repeating the same unanswered questions without research.
Proposal
Introduce clearer and firmer guidelines that:
discourage those who participate only to stir up controversy;
encourage those asking for help to first do some research and read the documentation, so that the forum’s content stays high-quality and easier to navigate.
If we all commit to this, the forum can truly become a place of growth and collaboration for those who have chosen to build with Bubble.
At the moment it’s stay respectful, I don’t have any issue. However, this should, exactly like for #2… search first the forum and add their voice to existing topics instead of creating a new one.
As for #2… it’s been a long time that I’m doing this (not always)… but it’s a problem on all forum and there’s different reasons but one of them is often, people asking for help doesn’t know how to search and WHAT to search. They often stick to their own case instead of searching for “general” function and they don’t know what is the function they are looking for (And this also lead to create specific answers). For example, people often search for specific API issue (cannot connect to X api) instead of looking for I have 401 error in API connector. So even if the solution could be found into another topic, they won’t find it. And even if they found it, they may not be able to transfer this to their own case.
I agree with you on the second part. But it’s not just that unfortunately. Look at the mobile section. Things were discussed in February that were already resolved and I still see the same questions being asked today. In addition, we have a fantastic tool that few people know. The bubble bot. It prevented me from writing to support at least 10 times this year because it took away some of my doubts. And it’s an instrument built with flakes.. If they are you would use the one in the first line.. Also the support of the bubble itself would be much more free from things that are irrelevant to them (although I noticed that now the support responds to all hours, and I am 6 hours ahead in New York City).
Let’s remember what a forum is (or should be):
Proposal
If we all commit to this, the forum can truly become a place of growth and collaboration for those who have chosen to build with Bubble.