Official: How’s the New Community Site Working for You?

I'm not loving it. The basic functionality seems to work o.k., but it's not as easy to navigate as the old site. I'm finding the quote function, in particular, much less flexible and intuitive.

I made the switch from the newsgroup to the old forum on day one, however many years ago that was. Therefore, I have a lot of muscle memory built up over that time. So the new forums were jarring to me at first. I really didn't like them. But I knew I should give myself time to get used to them. I am a daily visitor but I don't post all that much.

Over the last two weeks, I have started to get used to the new format and even like it a bit better. Still learning to do things but it is coming along.

I don't get tagging very well but Jason explained its use above. I appreciate being able to do "likes" and the other options.

I am still learning new things in the forums, but I will give it a "one thumbs up." Two thumbs will likely come one day.

Hi, Jason: re: quote text editor. Please keep the solution quick + simple……I have no idea what a 'quote text editor' is…..A video would show me how. Note, I am subscriptionLESS. Would that make a difference in the video?

Re: dead Amazon URL. Indeed, perhaps 2 someones forgot to press the space bar. It happens fairly often here. I thought a coding problem might have prevented the URLs' activation, or some such computer-y thing.

Re: white theme. If it has to be, it has to be……Eyes: My blink rate is up - my body is tying to eliminate the excessive white. I type looking at my keyboard; this is still too bright, pushing at my eyes.

I don't like the fact that all the old forum groups are dumped together in one bucket in the English forum. This is a problem if youre like me and only want notifications by email. I never followed most of these groups, only the desktop group and notes group, sometimes files group. Now, because there is no filter in my notification preferences for groups, not categories, by email, I'm stuck receiving emails for every post in the english forum category. Please a a filter for Groups tags in my notification preferences like you have on the top of the english forum page.

Thanks

I find that to be annoying also. You have to type the name exactly as it is spelled, spaces and all. Even then sometimes, as you say it evaporates and won't come back. when the happens I hit return and try in a different line and it starts working again. So anomalous.

Working great for me. Super easy to move from Forums to Feedback.

There are lots of advantages to the new system. Chief among them is your (Jason and team's) ability to modify the way things work, which is the whole purpose behind this current discussion. Thank you Jason and team!

I won't say I miss anything simply because of my attachment to something old. But objectively, I struggle with certain things. I echo what @Veli Voipio said above: Finding relevant discussions is not easy. Perhaps the fact that everything gets dumped into one cauldron and users don't consistently apply tags lies at the root of this issue. "Mining" for relevant discussions, or anything I'm interested in, is overly labor intensive. Frankly, most the the time, I just lose interest. I think @MJ. Smith mentioned something about getting fewer people reading her tips, and this might be why.

As others have said, getting emails based on things we're interested in is problematic. I would LOVE to get an email whenever someone mentions something about, say, the desktop app. But I can't see anyway to make that happen. I don't want to open the web site from a browser and sift for stuff. Again, that's too much work.

I desperately thirst for a way to mark, en masse, a group of posts I've read or that I'm no longer interested in. Clicking the many, many things I haven't read and will never read doesn't make sense. Again, too much work. Also, there should be a greater coordination between what has not been read and what alerts have been recognized. (I've mentioned this before.)

I'm still looking for a good explanation of what it means to "follow" something. Different social media implementations imply different things with this one term.

I find it great that we can paste graphics from the Windows clipboard. I find it odd that the default size is Large.

Thanks for asking and listening!

Hello Jason,

If I click on a link in the email. For example "A question from …." with now over 35 pages. It leads me always to to the 3. page instead of the actual post.

Hello Jason,

a annoyance. I have to scroll to the bottom until I can switch to the next page. The page turner must be above too. So if we start on the first page we can go to the next without scrolling down.

Ok. I see it, it is under the initial post.

I preferred the former layout of being able to select message forums by the subjects that used to be available instead of how they are now.

Hi @Jason Stone (Logos) ,

Thanks for the post, and I think the new forum looks much better esthetically. I just have a few thoughts.

The first thing I think might actually be a bug. When I receive an email that someone has responded to a thread and I click on it to see the post on the forum, instead of it going to that post it brings me to somewhere in the middle of the thread.

Another thing which would be helpful is having fill-in profile pics for people who haven't uploaded a pic. The reason for this would be for the sake of tagging. Earlier I was in a conversation with someone without a profile pic. I then wanted to tag him, so I did the at symbol and started typing his name, but there were four profiles with his name, and there was no way to tell which was his because none of the four had profile pictures. I can attach an example of "test" and you can see how problematic this would be with someone's name. It would thus be helpful if people without profile pictures had different colors or something, similar to the last "test" being distinct, so that you can tell them apart if you are talking to someone with a common name.

I think those are the only things I have noticed (besides being able to select parts of quotes as everyone has mentioned).