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.
Whatever the current login cookie expiration is set at is too short. I consistently have to log back seemingly every time I visit, even if I visit daily.
Contrast this with, say, my Gmail login, which lasts for weeks or months at least.
Worse, when I go to a topic but am not logged in and want to comment, logging in takes me to community.intersystems.com, not back to the topic.
Since the March 15 update, Related Topic is now a mandatory field. My first post since the update was to this Developer Community Feedback group, and I found it hard to choose an appropriate Related Topic. I ended up picking "Online Learning" for that post, and will use the same for this one too.
When I am looking at a certain article and then decide to comment, but realized I'm not logged in, I hit the login button. However, it then redirects me back to the front page and not back to the article I was looking at. This should be fixed.
From time to time someone adds the "Developer Community" tag to a post that's actually about something else. I wonder if by renaming the tag to "Developer Community Feedback" this wouldn't happen so much. After all, the group is called "Developer Community Feedback". If folk feel the proposed new name for the tag is too long, how about "DC Feedback"?
I've already pointed out that I believe the reply icon should be changed, but this would be (mostly) irrelevant if all icons had text. Here is a simple mockup:
can I suggest a tweak to the functionality when browsing the list of articals,
when you click on a new page number / next page, the content change, but the position within the page remains at the bottom. It would make much more sense to display the next page of articles, and immediately jump back to the top of the page to continue reading.
If you are reading any post as a guest (not logged in or a search crawler), please do not show
"SHARE WITH A FRIEND" in the post template. This link only works when you are logged in.
If not you are not logged in and try the link, it results in an unfriendly error:
I don't feel strongly enough about it to hate it, but I prefer the typical auto-complete, free-form tagging system seen on most sites (see StackOverflow for the perfect example). The nested dropdowns are just too cumbersome in my opinion.
I noticed that some posts are being rated. Why are they stars not reflecting the current rating? It shows a numerical average inder the stars, but the stars are all just outlines. I thought if there was an average rating, that the stars would be colored yellow.
Average post rating = 2.5, show 2.5 stars as yellow
A few other people (one person who pointed it out, then everyone else I asked to confirm) noted that https://community.intersystems.com/myuserpoints shows "Points for Timothy Leavitt" in the browser/tab title. The page itself shows these users' actual names rather than mine.
This makes me worry that other parts of the site could confuse users' identities too.
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