#DC Feedback

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DC Feedback relates to discussions on Developer Community UI, UX and performance problems and enhancements.

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Article John Murray · Mar 18, 2016 1m read

Here's something I find a bit awkward. Suppose I'm reading the posts in a group, e.g from https://community.intersystems.com/group/developer-community-feedback

I see an interesting post, so I click into it.

I add a comment to the post.

Now I want to go back to the list of posts in the group, i.e. to https://community.intersystems.com/group/developer-community-feedback but I don't see a link that takes me there. I have to resort to several clicks on the browser back button.

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Article Scott Beeson · Mar 17, 2016 1m read
Option 1:
Groups are renamed "Forums".  They are segregated and have their own sets of tags.  If I'm viewing "Ensemble" and I click "Create a Post", it is posted in that forum.  I must tag the post with one or more tags from that forum, "Business Service", "Production", "DTD", etc.  Tags can be assigned to multiple forums.  I am never prompted to choose a "group"/forum.  It's based on the context I was viewing.
Option 2:
Groups and tags are completely removed and replaced with "Topics" and subtopics.  These work just like tags except that the first one chosen is the topic.  
Option 3:
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Article Paul Gomez · Mar 17, 2016 1m read

We can change to this mode of UI in the Create New Post that I think makes the tag usage easier. There's help text under the window in this screen shot and it will contain instructions on the use of tagging, the benefits and also a link to a standing post to request new tags. I think this method of operation will allow us to add many more tags without making them burdensome to navigate.

Thoughts?

Not quite sure how to connect groups to tags in this UI but that might be the next step.

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Article Scott Beeson · Mar 17, 2016 1m read

I received an email notification and the only link was directly to the comment: https://community.intersystems.com/question406316/answer406331

From that page you can see that there is no way to get to the full question itself (unless I'm missing it).  

Looking through my subscriptions it looks like I'm literally subscribed to the answer and not the main topic. 

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Article John Murray · Mar 18, 2016 1m read

Here's the scenario. I write a post, click the Publish button to post it,  but overlook the fact that because I didn't add a tag I'm still on the same page. The pink area highlighting what I forgot to fill in is out of sight at the bottom of the page. I carelessly navigate away (e.g. back button, or DC app tabs). There's no warning, and I've lost what I wrote.

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Article Evgeny Shvarov · Mar 18, 2016 1m read

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John Murray has won the prize and showed very impressive contribution activity with the result:

  • he did 20 posts with 40 votes on them,
  • these posts were commented 96 times by other members
  • made 53 comments with 39 positive votes.
  • All this happened in 2 weeks.

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Article Scott Beeson · Mar 17, 2016 1m read

This latest update was a huge stride in making the community usable.  I think you fixed almost all of the major usage gripes I had and it's looking great!

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Question Jon Jensen · Mar 15, 2016

In the recent march 15 update, there are multiple references to "groups". However in the menus, it still references "Communities" (Connect->Communities)

Shouldn't we update the menus to standardize on the word group(since that seems to be the popular/de facto term)?

Also I was forced to choose a related topic.  There is no  topic like: "misc", "other", "feedback", "site ui", etc. so I choose online learning

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Question Paul Gomez · Mar 16, 2016

When you click on the My Content icon in the navigation bar you see a page with tabs, two of which are "My Content" and the other is "My Collaborations". The formatting of this content is not very good and is inconsistent between the two.

Questions:

1. How many of you are using these pages?

2. What are you using them for?

3. What information do you expect to see here?

4. How can we improve this?

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Question Jon Jensen · Mar 15, 2016

Should we have a tag cloud on the homepage in place of  partial list of tag shown in the Browse by Tag? 

or at least a better formatted page than the current tagcloud at:
https://community.intersystems.com/tagclouds/chunk/1

This is a very very hard listing of tags to interact with.  It is one giant block of unformatted text.  

Maybe turn this in to a full page tagcloud?  Or a multi-column bulleted list?  

Once again I choose the online learning topic for this post as no appropriate tag is available.

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Announcement Paul Gomez · Mar 14, 2016

With this release we've done a few things with subscriptions

1. Exposed personalization settings so you can control how and when you receive the email subscription notifications. See the image below

2. The ability to selectively subscribe to email notification for content by Tag. At the top of the "Browse by Tag" page there is a new link to Subscribe with Email.

3. Made RSS feeds available for content based on Tag and based on Group. At the top of the "Browse by Tag" and "Browse by Group" pages you will see the RSS link.

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Question Mark Hanson · Mar 9, 2016

I noticed a lot of sites these days support use of Gravatar user profile pictures so your profile picture can follow you around from site to site, could we support this here?

 http://en.gravatar.com/

Also there appears to be some HTML bug in the user profile edit page, when I click on the 'edit' tab I see options to edit the profile for a fraction of a second before this closes and I am unable to edit anything.

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