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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 via the community lounge.

 

What's New 

  • An RSS subscribe button has been integrated with the Share button at the board & message / article level. 

Fixes 

  • Blogs on the “All Blogs” page are now listed in chronological order from newest to oldest based on the date posted, rather than by the most recent activity. 
  • Users with extended last names who were experiencing login difficulties are now able to login. 
  • Enabled a community wide default sorting of comments to Newest to Oldest
  • Users can change their default comment sorting in My Settings, under the user avatar.
  • Numerous other fixes to improve performance, stability, and user experience. 

Thank you for being a part of the Microsoft Tech Community. Your feedback is invaluable, and we look forward to bringing you more exciting features and improvements in the future. 

The Microsoft Tech Community team 

Published Nov 15, 2024
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  • HansVogelaar's avatar
    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's avatar
      Allen
      Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity 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's avatar
        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.

  • mande1191's avatar
    mande1191
    Iron Contributor
    Nov 16, 2024

    Thank you for the release notes. This is very helpful.👍

    I want RSS on the blogs (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/Blogs). The button is missing there.The RSS workaround doesn't work very well. 👍

  • wroot's avatar
    wroot
    Silver Contributor
    Nov 16, 2024

    Email notifications. Will you add back comment text to them instead just giving a link?

    • Allen's avatar
      Allen
      Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
      Dec 02, 2024

      Do your email notifications not look like this:

       

  • wroot's avatar
    wroot
    Silver Contributor
    Nov 16, 2024

    Still have to relogin every day when i open this site. In any browser.