Forum Discussion
Can you please stop changing the layout/navigation?
Hi VasilMichev,
Favourited spaces are being phased out, simply put only a small handful of users were using them and got how they were used.
We are instead going to surface another community feature in their place called subscriptions. This will allow you to get email digest of areas you subscribe to. You can control how often you get these digests here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-subscriptions:notification-settings.
The problem with favourites was that they are not native to the community platform we are using and so it was very hard to do anything useful with them. We could only pull 25 of your favourited communities in one go and that is becoming troublesome now the community is getting much larger.
Hence why we deprecated 'My Home' because it was nearing its maximum capacity for the number of favourited spaces you could have.
Moving to the concept of subscribed spaces will help us get the latest and greatest information into your inbox so you can deal with it at a time that suits you, as well as meaning you do not have to be actually logged into the community to get it. You will also be able to see your subscribed boards and threads here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-subscriptions:email-subscriptions.
I get from what you are saying that your looking for a quick way to get to the conversations you have favourited, but I am not 100% sure why it would take 10 times as many clicks to get to that content, I agree it may take a couple of extra clicks.
We do surface content from the spaces your a member of on the home page as well, maybe you could share with me a little more what it is you got from My Home that you do not think you will be able to get via either Subscriptions or using these feeds?
I truly appreciate the time your taking to share your feedback because its always valuable to listen to what our MVPs tell us.
Allen If I wanted to use email notifications, I would. I'm already part of a dozen forums/communities (TechNet/MSDN, Answers, MTC, EE, Spiceworks to name a few), if I subscribe for new posts on each of those my mailbox will simply explode. I prefer to browse the MTC instead, and the Dashboard was fine for this purpose.
Again, it's about getting to the Spaces I follow, not Communities, not Conversations. Home tab lists 4 per page, how many times do I need to press the "more" button to get all the results? Perhaps you can move that page someplace else and have it load a more suitable number of results?
- AllenDec 04, 2018
Community Manager
Lets see if we can come up with another way to meet your use case because, as I mentioned in my original reply, the feed used for My Home was going to become broken in the next month anyway so it had to go.
I take it that using the 'Conversations I started' or the 'Conversations I have replied' to on your profile page does not meet your needs?
So, the ask here is to have a list of all conversations that you have expressed some sort of interest in listed in perpetuity somewhere right?
This list must:
- Know which spaces / discussions or individual posts you want to be able to review
- List them in chronological order
- Expand indefinitely without a need for you to click see more or next?
Did I miss anything?