At the docs chat today, we discussed the possibility of creating a support/docs hub as the go-to-place for all WordPress support. Essentially this would be a landing page with a links to different types of documentation, and serve to filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. people to the right place.
This would live at https://wordpress.org/support At the minute that URL gets around 400,000 pageviews a month, and codex.wordpress.org gets about 150,000
It would follow the model adopted by Mozilla: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/home Their portal combines support and docs.
At the minute this in very germinal stage, so we’re interested to know what people think of it. If people like the idea of a Support/Docs hub then we can start exploring ways of creating something effective for WordPress users.