Microsoft Tech Community Release Notes – 11/15/24

Jeetmx
Copper Contributor
Dec 05, 2024
New Microsoft Tech community site is full **bleep** of and garbage, some component takes too long to load and new design is also confusing, and random not personalized. Please make it modern looking, add dark mode, more fast, otherwise i'm done with this.
- Allen
  Community Manager
  Dec 05, 2024
  Jeetmx Thank you for your feedback, I have to say the feedback we have thus far is mostly positive. Of course, there are problems which we will seek to address in the next few releases.
  
  The experience can be personalized by following the content you're most interested in, then when you visit the community homepage and sign in the discussions you see in the discussion list are from those boards. This is just the start though, we have some roadmap items, that I hope we can share some more on shortly, to add additional personalization options to help you find the content most relevant to you and stay engaged with it.
  
  Dark mode, we have heard this loud and clear, it's not currently supported by underlying libraries but it too is on the roadmap for 2025.
  
  I hope you will come with us on this Journey as we seek to build out a modern, responsive community experience which delivers a simpler experience for everyone through 2025 and beyond.
wroot
Silver Contributor
Dec 03, 2024
I have enabled email notifications for now. When new comment is posted on a blog post i follow, it doesn't have comment text in email notification. In such form email notifications are not useful for me. Example:
Hi wroot,

SergeiBaklan posted a new comment on 2024-12-03 03:31 PM

Re: Microsoft Tech Community Release Notes – 11/15/24

View the comment: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/WeeklyRoundupBlog/microsoft-tech-community-release-notes-–-111524/4298588/replies/4351789
Your Microsoft Community Hub Team
mande1191
Steel Contributor
Dec 03, 2024
Email notifications and link

If you are logged in and choose the link in the email notification, this link will not lead to the corresponding post.
If you are logged out and select the link in the email notification, this link will lead to the corresponding post.
mande1191
Steel Contributor
Dec 03, 2024
Inbox visibility
It takes approx. 48 seconds after opening the Inbox for the messages to appear.
mande1191
Steel Contributor
Nov 22, 2024
If you want to share something on LinkedIn with the share button, (only) the Tech Community main page is shared.
- Allen
  Community Manager
  Dec 02, 2024
  mande1191 Thank you, we have identified the cause of this and will shortly be deploying a fix
wroot
Silver Contributor
Nov 21, 2024
Comment form should be above comments. So don't have to scroll past comments to leave one.

As email notifications don't have message content, had to disable them. Trying to use notifications pane instead. It should scroll to comments automatically so you don't have to scroll past article every time.
Also, it should mark notification read when you click on it. Now it marks all as read after opening pane and it is hard to keep track of what you already read. You may add Mark all as read probably.
All above wouldn't matter if emails contained messages.
- Allen
  Community Manager
  Dec 02, 2024
  wroot
  
  Thanks for the feedback about the location of the comment box, we will capture this and consider it for a future update.
  
  We have heard the feedback about notifications from community classic, at this time it's not supported but will also capture it.
  
  The emails I get do have the body of the message contained in them, can you expand a bit more on this item?
  - SergeiBaklan
    MVP
    Dec 02, 2024
    Allen , my $0.02 regarding emails. My view is compact
    
    but even if expand on 3 lines (max allowed)
    
    it's hard to understand what's that about without viewing the body. Having about hundred notifications it's hard to follow such notifications. Even if to check the body, it could be subject like "Help" and I need to read entire text to understand from which space that could be and what about.
    
    If I have time to check everything in browser notifications are not important. If it's not enough time I prefer to check notifications without reading their body.
    
    It will be great if email notifications will be returned to old style, graphical design is not so important.
JReekes
Copper Contributor
Nov 19, 2024
The RSS feed has problems. I've been using my RSS reader for many years with the many MSFT blogs I follow. This update has broken things.
One is how images no longer work. Looks like they've all been turned into buttons, which should work in a RSS reader but something is broken in how it's been done at your sites.
The feeds have several compatibility issues. Check at the W3C validator results.
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcommunity.microsoft.com%2Ft5%2Fs%2Fgxcuf89792%2Frss%2Fboard%3Fboard.id%3DAzure-AI-Services-blog
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcommunity.microsoft.com%2Ft5%2Fs%2Fgxcuf89792%2Frss%2Fboard%3Fboard.id%3DDefenderThreatIntelligence
- Allen
  Community Manager
  Dec 02, 2024
  Thanks, most RSS Readers will still read the URLs correctly though. We are currently evaluating our roadmap for 25/26 and I am sure improvements to RSS will feature on it. Stay tuned for updates!
SergeiBaklan
MVP
Nov 17, 2024
Thank you for sharing. Hope that's very beginning of fixes deployment.
peiyezhu
Bronze Contributor
Nov 17, 2024
Thank you for the release note.
It is very good to see all thread sorted by newest as default.
As to 'Show more' endlessly in mobile phone,I guess the scroll can trigger the load more.
e.g.
https://club.excelhome.net/forum.php?mod=guide&view=newthread&mobile=2
And another problem of mobile endpoint: after press show more and then click the item to see detail,when I press back, I always back to the first page instead of the page I see before.
The Excelhome forum also exits this behavior.

3,Can not paste html tag table th to pubish a table in text.

Thanks
HansVogelaar
MVP
Nov 16, 2024
I do appreciate that you're working on it, but it is now 99.98% horrible instead of 99.99% horrible. For example: why do we still have to click 'Show more' endlessly to view a discussion? Why are we logged out many, many times per day? Why is there no language drop-down in the Insert Code window? Etc. etc. etc.
- Allen
  Community Manager
  Dec 02, 2024
  HansVogelaar
  Thank you for your feedback - here and elsewhere - I am not sure I would agree that its 99.99 or 99.98% horrible, the feedback we are getting from other users just doesn't support that.
  
  That said, I know you have been having issues and I hope to work to resolve some of them as quickly as possible.
  
  The show more pagination style is one of the things that helps the page load quicker, now maybe we have not got the balance quite right yet and that would be fair for sure.
  
  Being logged out many many times per day, I hear you and agree that logging out does seem a little more aggressive with Aurora than with Classic, its something we are exploring with the engineering team. I will of course be happy to share updates on this as soon as I have some.
  
  Why is there no language drop down in the insert code dialogue? Well the code syntax highlighter is prismJS, it supports 297 languages so that would be one really extensive list of languages to have in a dropdown. Open to suggestions here but I don't think 297 languages in a big never ending dropdown list is a good solution either.
  - HansVogelaar
    MVP
    Dec 02, 2024
    Hi Allen,
    
    It is now almost 4 weeks since the downgrade.
    
    In a long discussion, I have to click Show More tens of times.
    
    Whatever the sort order of a discussion, it is very confusing to me.
    
    I have to login again more or less every hour.
    
    Logging in is slow and involves lots of elements being loaded and unloaded visibly, causing the screen flashing, which I find unpleasant, but it might be dangerous to some people.
    
    We lost most of the options to customize our experience.
    
    Private messages take tens of seconds to load.
    
    The notification bell sometimes updates instantaneously, sometimes slowly, and sometimes not at all.
    
    Notifications are very often incorrect: it says that I replied to a discussion, but in reality I replied hours or days ago and someone else has now responded.
    
    I'm almost exclusively active in ExcelGeneral. This used to be a very busy and lively discussion space. It has become much quieter, I assume because users are discouraged by the new format.
    
    Sorry if I sound harsh, but I find it very disappointing, and I frequently consider ending or at least suspending participating.

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