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Lessons Learned from Microsoft Tech Community Usage
Most of the people I've spoken with have the same concerns, and we left similar feedback to our lovely community team. The reality is that those are two different platform and we need to adapt. The team has been doing some improvements based on the feedback and more are coming in the future, take for example the inactivity window.
As for actual tips, what I do now is use the dashboad page. It allows me to quickly check for ne threads (although pagination would certainly help in this regard), and then I just go over each of the communities/spaces I follow in a new tab. Definitely not perfect, and it takes quite a lot of clicking, but it's the best I've found so far.
VasilMichev wrote:The reality is that those are two different platform and we need to adapt.
The reality is that communities must be designed to foster engagement, and this one is not. Only the most dedicated people will expend the mental energy required to use a system that is not intuitive. The rest will drift away.
it takes quite a lot of clicking
That neatly summarizes pretty much any activity here at the moment.