What do you think?

Hi Erich,

The users will definitely need some time to settle for the new UI. but I assume the migration went successfully! Congratulations

Though i am still exploring the Best features about the changed UI the first few things really liked:

1) the spell checker

2) the feature to post replies via e-mail (which i am yet to use ).

Stuff that can be improved (these were few things that I had noticed on the communities site some time back):

1) The EMC2 logo in top left points to the emc website. if you click on the "support forum" text mentioned just next to the logo it does take the user to the communities home page. but intuitively one would expect the navigation to go to ECN home page if the top left url is clicked and not the emc home.

2) Too many extra feature buttons & links tends to take the user focus away from the core page content/ information and makes site navigation a bit slow.

Over i feel the UI is secondary, I would be happy if I am able to find all the helpful posts and replies made by forum experts like Johnny, Jorg, Fabian, Cristian and others in an easier and efficient way!!

Cheers

Deepak Apte

I should have guessed from the funny "o" - I just thought it was the new forum acting up :-)

it also looks strange in the From of the EMail watches (at least in OWA)

Personally I also like hierarchical forums with lots of sub-categories

But to make them work you need users that know where to post something and moderators that delete or move posts that arent in the right category.

the downside typically is that casual users dont want to click through lots of categories and you tend to get less replies this way

of course it also depends on the volume of posts per category

In the end forum posts arent really permanent storage thats easy to search - for that a couple of FAQs and maybe a Wiki usually work better

FYI -

The Reply-by-Email functionality seems to be broken post migration. We are working on restoring this functionality.

The Email notifications functionality was initially broken and has since been restored.

Thanks,

Aashish

EMC Community Network

I guess this is evolving as we speak.  I'm seeing more categories on the left side under Support Forums, ones that are familar from Powerlink.  That was my primary concern.  The site appears to be a bit under contruction, and I'm sure in the end it's going to be the best of both worlds...

Hi Deepak,

>>I would be happy if I am able to find all the helpful posts and replies made by forum experts like Johnny, Jorg, Fabian, Cristian and others in an easier and efficient way!!

You should be able to follow the activity of users - visit a users profile by clicking on their name and then see the 'Actions' section in the right hand side.

Also, you should be able to see a users activity and content from the tabs on the profile.

Thanks,

Aashish

Well, I think there a few nice changes like email replys, but overall the site is too cluttered with bells and whistles that are not needed. Not trying to undermine the asthetic effort, but honstly it feels more like a Documentum enthusiasts FaceBook site.

It would be nice to see 2 enhancement

- The correct/helpful answers more visible rather than barely visible small tick/bang.

- The Recent Content page shows "Subject" in the first column and "Author" in the 2nd column, it would be better to be consistent with that approach and have the same layout for the sub-catagories rather than having "Author" first and than "Subject".

It would be interesting to see a poll for how many users would like a rollback.

Cheers!

Mine was initially set to Mountain time, I reset it to Pacific and it's been fine ever since.