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Microsoft Tech Community Release Notes – 11/15/24

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JoshLeporati
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Nov 15, 2024
We appreciate your continued engagement and invaluable feedback. Your insights and suggestions are instrumental in shaping our updates and enhancing your experience. Continue to report any problems v...
Published Nov 15, 2024
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Allen
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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.

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HansVogelaar
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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.