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ShawnMaiberger
Oct 09, 2021Brass Contributor
Multiple bugs and usability issues with Tech Community forums
I'm dealing with multiple bugs with the Tech Community site that are making it a total chore to use. I'd love to contribute to multiple spaces, but the site is really painful to use with these bugs ...
wroot
Oct 10, 2021Silver Contributor
They are "rebuilding" it since i joined here. Which was 5 years ago or more. It always had bad performance (at some point even worse than currently) and i don't believe it will improve unless they switch to completely different platform. Like they use for new Microsoft Q&A site. After using Discourse or even Reddit i just want to run away after i try to browse for anything here. 5 posts per view is laughable, but it seems they somehow like that design and don't want to change. At some point they even did automatic lazy loading when you scroll to the bottom, but then went back to manual Load More button. Density, yeah, not very useful. Everything here seems dated and clunky. But i am more afraid when they actually change something, like notifications on mobile. Instead of clicking on a bell and glancing on them i now have wait for menu to load and then click again on Notifications to load them and i am taken from the current page. Or how they added Author panel to every blog making content view squeezed on the left. Fixed this a bit later, but i still don't get why it has to be at the side of content. It can be at the bottom of the post and not take so much space. It is not that important who posted what and when.