Quicken Mac v6.9 has been released!

Ps56k2 said:

This is really counter productive to the rest of the entire forum structure.

Each and every QMac Release should be posted as a single topic entry in the - Product Release and Announcements -
and then CLOSED for comments - only Admin/Mod should be able to post to these "announcements" - 

@Ps56k2 I'll respectfully disagree. Yes, we do get off-topic posts in these threads, BUT the comments about the latest release are valuable to both fellow users and, hopefully, the Quicken Mac product manager and/or team. When Marcus was product manager, he would often engage with users to agree, disagree, offer explanations, or seek more information about what users posted; I think it was extremely valuable to hear from him, and for him to see issues he might not otherwise have been aware of via Quicken's internal customer care channels. The current product manager, Victoria, hasn't been as active on these posts since taking over, but I suspect she's still getting fully immersed in all aspects and details of Quicken Mac. So while there are posts on these threads which aren't germane to the latest release, I think the benefits outweigh any annoyance of off-topic posts.

In the case of this thread about the 6.9 release, there wasn't any customer feedback because it was an unusually light and cosmetic release, visible-feature-wise. 

I have two suggestions to offer, though. (1) Moderators should move off-topic comments into their own threads. I think they actually do this sometimes, but perhaps they could do so more to keep these new release threads a little more tightly focused. (2) These threads could be closed by the moderators after a reasonable period of time follow a release, and if traffic in the thread has slowed to nearly nothing. I think the moderators could close the thread after a few weeks, or a little longer if there active discussion is taking place about the features/functionality of the release. 

@Ps56k2 My point is that the product manager and development team are NOT reading the entire forum. So if you push 100% of comments about a new release to various other sections and sub-sections of the forum, you'd be pretty much insuring they will NOT be seen by the development team. How would that be that an improvement?

On the flip side, if the product manager or members of the development team monitor the post about a new release in the days after it goes live, it's a way for them to get direct and immediate feedback from users who find something not working correctly, not optimal, or lacking in a newly-implemented feature. Under the stewardship of Marcus, I think this small window of interactivity proved to be extremely useful both to him and to us users. I know I and others were able to make him aware of issues over the years which went directly to the team and were often fixed within days or in the next release. And he sometimes took the time to explain the back story or complication with the implementation, or lack thereof, of particular functionality. I'm hoping that Victoria will follow his lead and engage with the user community here, even if it's only in a small percentage of her time following each new release.

Yes, this is different than the rest of the announcement sections of the forum. Who cares?! I say viva la difference! If there's a small window to call something to the attention of the development team, that is pure gold in my option. And they and we can easily skip over the off-topic posts when they come.