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suyog_gadgil
Microsoft
MicrosoftThanks for your question Roger! We would love to understand more here. A lot of our customers still use classic pages for a number of reasons so we have to be super careful about deprecation. Are there clear usability or other issues that you are facing because classic pages exist
We have an on-premises SharePoint for over 15 years in our environment migrating from 2007 to 2016. Now we are migrating to M365 SPO. However, some users still request to use the classic pages in SPO for mostly nostalgic reasons. Most of our users dislike the classic pages because they look ugly and are not modern and progressive. I fully understand that some of your clients use classic pages but why are they not using on-premises SharePoint. Super careful is not always ok. You phase out other stuff too. I just think classic pages have nothing lost in the cloud.
- suyog_gadgilThanks again for explaining. I would like to understand the feedback a little better so let me know if I understood this right. "You would like people to move to modern since it is much easier to use and beautiful by default. If microsoft stops supporting classic it will be easier to convince users to move to modern. Since we keep supporting classic the users want to keep using it and are not motivated to move to modern". My question is "Are you looking for us to stop supporting it officially or you want us to help people move off actively?"
- The new button on site home page and new button on site contents page create modern pages. I believe it's only the site pages library where the new button lets you select a classic wiki page or web part page as an option. Roger - Would an option for a site collection administrator to hide classic pages as an option in the dropdown work?
- I don't have the ability to create classic pages in my SPO sites. I hate that the New > Site page button in Site Pages doesn't allow me to select a template nor defaults to my default (modern) page template.
