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Jon Levesque
Microsoft
Jan 19, 2018Please Use The Official Microsoft Flow Community
Hi Everyone!
I'm Jon Levesque, a Senior PM on the Microsoft Flow Team. I'm here because i noticed a fair amount of activity in this tech community area and I wanted to be sure to invite you al...
Jon Levesque
Microsoft
Jan 20, 2018Hi Loryan,
Although that may be the vision of the tech community to have all communities in one place, we on the Flow team want to make sure you have the very best experience in community and learning so we have made significant investments on our own to ensure that you receive just that.
Jan 20, 2018
I expected that answer, and unfortunately that's the exact problem: "we think we can do it better, so we're going to do it this way".
I don't purport to understand the internal workings of Microsoft community managers and product groups around decisions like this, but from my perspective when others are coming together its disappointing that Flow & PowerApps have the view of "we're different, so we're going to be over here thank you very much".
To be clear: I don't expect a conversation or to change anyone's mind, just as a MVP that points people to the Tech Community for their answers, it's already frustrating that I have point people on here to UserVoice for one function and now PowerApps and Flow somewhere else because they want to do things their way.
I don't purport to understand the internal workings of Microsoft community managers and product groups around decisions like this, but from my perspective when others are coming together its disappointing that Flow & PowerApps have the view of "we're different, so we're going to be over here thank you very much".
To be clear: I don't expect a conversation or to change anyone's mind, just as a MVP that points people to the Tech Community for their answers, it's already frustrating that I have point people on here to UserVoice for one function and now PowerApps and Flow somewhere else because they want to do things their way.
- Jon LevesqueJan 21, 2018
Microsoft
Hi Loryan, I can understand that perspective entirely. It makes sense why you would see it that way. Lets get it all under one roof to save the user a few clicks! it makes sense.
I will also share my perspective and clarify a few things, if i may.
First, I'm not just a community manager. I'm a Senior Program Manager. Its my job to think of engagement, community, content and evangelistic activity all up. Its my charter to ENSURE that customers not only have a community to ask questions but to be thinking through how those questions get answered and how i can help make sure that the person answering that question really knows what they're talking about.
I want to make sure that YOUR Customers, who are going to interact with Microsoft flow have all of the materials they need to be successful, whether that's forums, blogs, videos, documentation, guided learning or a live webinar... And so we, at the Flow team decided that "unification" into a platform, for the purpose of unification wasn't good enough... We wanted to ensure that we created an ecosystem around our product that breathed success - and so we chose to do it differently.Not because "we think we can do better" but because after we investigated all of our options.. we decided that the best thing for your customers and ours, was to build our own system... and if activity and quality of content are any indications to success, i would invite you to go and see for yourself how the Flow community works
Happy to chat more anytime about this and i would love for you to come be part of the official community. I really appreciate your passion in speaking up about this and making your opinion knownThanks so much!
- Jon
- Dean_GrossJan 23, 2018Silver Contributor
Jon, since that is the case, please get this community space closed down and redirects implemented so that we only have one place to visit.
In my opinion, Having this space under the SharePoint community was never a good location.