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Please bring back the Yammer community.
This site is very hard to use
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I know this site isn't perfect but admittedly it has improved since it's introduction and I know there is a lot more to go. I don't think the site will radically change though being a 3rd party system and it may never be good enough for some compared to Yammer.
I do like that it's more open than Yammer, people can see posts without registering and I can share community links knowing this. I like that Microsoft is building other communities around it like Windows Server, though I'd like to see more effort to kickstart some of those groups. None of this is to say I don't miss the Yammer network as well, in some respects.
Membership is growing as well, MS Ignite helped I am sure but now with 20K members, it's getting there. Still, a long way to go from that 80K, was it, from the Yammer based Office 365 Network but not a bad start.
- Agree, this system has become my new "bad example" demo to clients that are not sure of the benefit provided by hiring User Experience experts. This UX is horrific.
- Honestly I am struggling with all of the different sites for support MS has. Back when there were just NNTP newsgroups, you had one place to go and knew where to go to get help. Now there is Answers, Technet, TechCommunity, UserVoice... and I am sure I am missing others. I wish MS would consolidate on ONE platform for peer support.
I needed help with Flow, and guess what? A whole new community. https://powerusers.microsoft.com/
There needs to be a VP of Forums and Community Engagement at MS and these all need to be brought under one umbrella.
It would also help if the product names didn't make things more confusing. Outlook 365 was out for a long time before it became Outlook Web Access, and you still get articles on Outlook 2016/2013 client versions when searching for fixes for issues in Outlook Web Access.
All the articles that are 'how to' but have the old software is a time waster as well. The screen examples match nothing you see in your own screen. The announcement of the new App Panels says you can go to the new Admin Center, open the SharePoint Admin Center and click Site Settings to turn it on or off - only there's no menu item 'Site Settings' if you go to the SharePoint Admin Center.
Another example, it's difficult to get support if you want it on the September 2016 release of the next generation sync client for One Drive for Business, since the majority of the links take you to the 2015 next generation sync client of OneDrive for Business or personal One Drive. I see they have now started calling it the 'OneDrive for Business sync client for SharePoint13 and SharePoint Online' - ODfBSP? Simple eh?
Very frustrating.
Hi Michelle, thanks for the feedback. We're working hard to make this community a productive and easy to use place. Every week we're pushing out new updates and fixes, so please let us know if you have any constructive ideas or feedback that we can build on.
Indent reply to's under the appropriate reply instead of just tacking it at the bottom.
- Totally agree with the comments in this thread and this bad UX is not understandable knowing the underlying platform is being in the Power BI Community or Microsoft Stream Forums and there the UX is much better
- Eliminate the excessive white space on the screen. I have a 24 inch monitor and all i currently see is your response, I can't see what you responded to without scrolling.
Provide the ability to see new conversations, hide conversations that have already been read.
Provide the ability to see popular posts by time period, the current listing never changes because some posts from July got viewed many times. Being able to see what is popular this week, last week, this month would be good.
