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Scott Beeson · Mar 17, 2016 go to post

Also there is already a Find > Articles/Whitepapers menu option.  What is the difference between those articles and post articles?  Just another related aspect that should be considered.

Scott Beeson · Mar 17, 2016 go to post

Somehow while navigating I just ended up on another comment page with no discernable way back to the entire post.  It's annoying.

Scott Beeson · Mar 17, 2016 go to post

It's about more than function.  Question and Article are pretty specific and I feel like many things won't fall into those categories.  Here are a couple examples:

What is your favorite public cloud provider and why? (Discussion)

Development teams and namespaces (Discussion)

Getting my head around a class model (Discussion)

2015.1.4 maintenance release now available (Announcement)

Alert: Incorrect SQL Results (Announcement)

And honestly I'm generally not interested in articles, nor do I have time to read them.  It would be cool to just view all questions or all discussions.  So that's one functional reason.

Scott Beeson · Mar 17, 2016 go to post

Confirmed same behavior for a question I posted.  I agree that we should be able to answer our own questions.

Scott Beeson · Mar 17, 2016 go to post

Oh I see, top level replies are "answers" and then you can comment on them.

Scott Beeson · Mar 17, 2016 go to post

How do you choose if something is a comment or an answer?  I just have a WYSIWYG form labeled "Your Answer".

Scott Beeson · Mar 17, 2016 go to post

Love a lot of the aesthetic changes, especially the simplicity of "add comment" and "edit".  Much better than the backwards arrow :)

Scott Beeson · Mar 16, 2016 go to post

Can you add the weird issue of CKEdit not wrapping words properly to the bug list? It seems to just wrap lines right in the middle of words now.  I had never noticed this until today, but it's possible it was happening before or maybe it was just something wrong with the two posts I looked at before this one.  I guess we'll find out with this post because it is way longer than necessary just so I could test the issue myself.

:)

p.s. "Join the Conversation" is back? Aggghhhhh! :)

Scott Beeson · Mar 7, 2016 go to post
The overwhelming consensus a few weeks back was to have the home page ordered by the latest posts, then posts with the latest comments, DESC. The filters are just doing filtering, not altering the sorting. The "Highest Rated" filter is those postings that are at least 4/5 stars. We might revisit this to make the filtering options sort differently.

I see.  I think revisiting sorting would be a good idea.

The next build has a new filter for "Unanswered" which shows all questions that haven't been answered. Each posting in the list will show the rating plus the number of comments and if it's a question, how many answers have been provided.

How are you going to filter "answered" questions when there is no answer mechanic?  A reply does not an answer make...

Scott Beeson · Mar 7, 2016 go to post

/ragequit

Just kidding (barely)

Paul, any hope of changelogs for upcoming releases (as they are released, I mean)?

Scott Beeson · Mar 4, 2016 go to post

Yeah It's not even readable now.  Could you update the OP with a link to the full size image?

Scott Beeson · Mar 4, 2016 go to post
upcoming release (next day or two)

If the breadcrumbs don't come back in this release I might ragequit!  :)

Scott Beeson · Mar 4, 2016 go to post

As a user this is not useful at all, sorry.

All I care about is seeing active, relevant content and other people seeing mine.

If I reply to a post from 3 weeks ago, unless someone is subscribed to that post or specifically searches for it nobody will ever see my reply.  This is a problem.

Edit: If the main goal here is a question & answer site and not a forum, then ignore everything I just said.  But so far, this is definitely giving more of a forum/discussion vibe.  Personally, I think they should be separate.  Paul mentioned having "Questions" and "Articles".  How about a third type; "discussion"?  Each type/category should and could have its own default sort behavior.

Scott Beeson · Mar 4, 2016 go to post
"MAX(PostDate, LastCommentDate) DESC"

I think this might be the problem, or the source of my confusion/misunderstanding in the other topic.  I did a quick example in Excel.  As you can see, the post with the most recent comment is still at the bottom.  I think the expectation of most users is that the posts with the most recent activity would be at the top of the list.

Feel free to correct me if I'm missing something.

Scott Beeson · Mar 4, 2016 go to post

That's the thing, the goal isn't to extract information.  I guess technically I am extracting information to make a determination, but I'm either sending the entire document or nothing.