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Microsoft Tech Community: Upgrade complete

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alliethompson
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Nov 06, 2024

We are pleased to report that our Microsoft Tech Community platform upgrade is complete!

The Microsoft Tech Community platform upgrade is complete! This significant enhancement brings you a modernized user experience, powerful tools for seamless content creation and discovery, and a more accessible and inclusive community environment. With this upgrade, we have laid the groundwork for ongoing innovation, growth, and engagement.

We invite you to explore the new features and share your feedback in the Community Lounge. We will continue to monitor performance and address any issues promptly to ensure a smooth experience for all users.

Thank you for your continued support and active participation in the Microsoft Tech Community. We are excited about the future enhancements this upgrade will bring and look forward to your valuable feedback.

Updated Nov 06, 2024
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  • Jedi's avatar
    Jedi
    Brass Contributor
    Nov 06, 2024

    Previous "Custom Blog RSS" seems to stop working after this upgrade. Will this functionality be back or already available somewhere else?

      • alvinium's avatar
        alvinium
        Brass Contributor
        Nov 06, 2024

        Agreed. I can't share any info from these blogs without RSS. This is very disappointing.

    • AlexLGer's avatar
      AlexLGer
      Brass Contributor
      Nov 06, 2024

      Same for me. I would appreciate it if this functionality will come back.

    • alliethompson's avatar
      alliethompson
      Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
      Nov 06, 2024

      RSS is not available at the moment, but it is on the future roadmap.

      • tseppala's avatar
        tseppala
        Brass Contributor
        Nov 07, 2024

        Great to hear. 💖 Any tentative release window yet?

  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    SergeiBaklan
    MVP
    Nov 06, 2024

    I'm very sorry to say, but first impression is negative.

    • Lot of empty spaces,
    • majority of settings disappeared,
    • not read threads are not marked,
    • not possible to sort posts in the thread in chronological order only,
    • now paging (with long thread can't go on last page, only press Show more),
    • search disappeared,
    • blogs with extremely large widgets hard to browse and find something in past,
    • in editor code snippet no drop down list of languages (have to type one),
    • no possibility to copy/paste image (only upload from the computer).
    • in email notifications subject is always "Subscription Update on Microsoft Community Hub" instead of the thread name, makes such notifications useless

    It looks like we are back in 2016 with bit more advanced design, I remember similar comments at that time.

    • m_tarler's avatar
      m_tarler
      Steel Contributor
      Nov 06, 2024

      I agree with much of these issues.

      I am especially concerned with the lack of a search so EVERY question will be asked again.

      I also don't like that notifications no longer have a pop-up menu with link to quickly go to the notification item but have to go to the notification page iteself

      And what about PMs?  I found no way to send or reply there.  

      • SergeiBaklan's avatar
        SergeiBaklan
        MVP
        Nov 07, 2024

        Perhaps I'll stop for a while here waiting for the improvements. It's practically impossible to work with this resource, wasting of time.

    • GeertVanTeylingen's avatar
      GeertVanTeylingen
      Icon for Microsoft rankMicrosoft
      Nov 13, 2024

      For sure the "no possibility to copy/paste image (only upload from the computer)" is a huge miss. 
      I am currently authoring a blog with 10's of images which in the current way is a nightmare.

    • Deleted's avatar
      Deleted
      Nov 06, 2024

      Hi, now I installed ( MTC extension application ) will I see how it works?

        https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/microsoft365/discussions/excelgeneral

       https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/microsoft365/discussions/excelgeneral

      • SergeiBaklan's avatar
        SergeiBaklan
        MVP
        Nov 06, 2024

        Sorry, I didn't catch. Let assume I'm totally new here and try find Excel space

        (which worked before). If search Excel from Home page it gives threads with Excel but from all spaces where they are.

  • tseppaelae's avatar
    tseppaelae
    Brass Contributor
    Nov 06, 2024

    The sudden removal of RSS feeds is a massive downgrade. As a partner, the ability to effectively track all of the myriad product-specific blogs through RSS feeds has been crucial for staying informed and helping Microsoft customers adopt of new features and products. The blog-specific RSS feeds need to come back ASAP.

    For example, the ability to serve easy Teams-integrated blog tracking solutions like the one in the image above is 100% predicated in feeds being programmatically accessible.

    • alvinium's avatar
      alvinium
      Brass Contributor
      Nov 06, 2024

      It's another step back for the open web. Sites are abandoning RSS everywhere to force you to engage on their pages. I use RSS to aggregate and share links on my blog every day. I've had to stop sharing information from so many great resources because they removed their RSS/Atom feeds.

  • HansVogelaar's avatar
    HansVogelaar
    MVP
    Nov 06, 2024

    Can you please reinstall the previous version? The new one is an absolute disaster. In the future, please test a new version before imposing it on users.

    • SergeiBaklan's avatar
      SergeiBaklan
      MVP
      Nov 06, 2024

      Oh, yes. Perhaps Khoros Aurora is much better compare to Khoros Classic. But for developers, from technology point of view. For end users situation is the opposite, at least for MTC implementation.

  • JT_Kukkonen's avatar
    JT_Kukkonen
    Brass Contributor
    Nov 06, 2024

    How do I sort released blog articles by date? When I go to AllBlogs.Page | Microsoft Community Hub it shows under "recent blogs" first article it shows is from October 2021, second article is from may 2020. I used to check new blog articles daily but now it is impossible if there is no way to sort released articles by date. I really, really hope that would be possible in near future.

  • Jonathan_'s avatar
    Jonathan_
    Brass Contributor
    Nov 06, 2024

    Removing RSS feeds is an absolutely terrible decision and has subsequently broken not only automation but reporting for me.  Please put these back immediately. Thanks.

  • JamesvandenBerg's avatar
    JamesvandenBerg
    MVP
    Nov 06, 2024

    Hello Techcommunity Team,
    I'm reading every day the Microsoft newest blogposts, when I hit blogs in the navigation panel  I like to see the newest blogposts first and not everything mixed and older blogposts.
    Hope you can fix this.

    And a Search Engine on the platform would be fine.
    Best Regards,
    James van den Berg

      • PS's avatar
        PS
        Copper Contributor
        Nov 08, 2024

        wht was it released inn this state ?  I'm now seeing blogs from 2023 and old , rather than the latest posts.  I've know got no idea what the latest posts are and if any of them have any actions that are relevant to me

  • JourneymanMC's avatar
    JourneymanMC
    Iron Contributor
    Nov 07, 2024

    Oh, and another thing is - it won't keep me signed in, I'll have to sign in every time I visit Tech Community. It wasn't like that before. Thanks

  • Metaloader's avatar
    Metaloader
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 06, 2024

    I like the old style where I could view multiple blogs on 1 page, currently only 2 blogs fit my screen which I have to scroll alot to view new blogs and seems not so well organized. I liked how I could see new blogs in a bird eye view.