[maxess]

So that the author of the addon (and other interested supporting parties) can keep track of everything and know when there's a question to answer.

Many of them have the threads set up so that they get notifications of new posts. If all sorts of random threads get opened up then it's easy to miss when attention and action is needed.

Equally it makes the place tidier, and it's easier to find questions and answers for a given topic, to save the same question getting asked multiple times.

But can you not see he's not active here? I find it less uniform because if someone from the outside wants to find a solution you'll notice the same question being asked multiple times and most of these questions are being asked by brand new members which tells you they've had to ask the question because they've missed the solution is a sea of comments. surely if it were tidier then every addon would have their own separate thread but thats not the case as you can see..