Modern web UI is nice, but at the end of the day when it comes to mobile, apps are still king.
If the purpose of this is to replace the interaction we had on Yammer, a mobile app is a necessity...
Ivan54 Thanks for pushing us, we really do appreciate it! We have every intention of working on a mobile app but we are under pressure to deliver a large number of improvements to the existing site and a focus on a mobile app will divert resources away from those improvements. These are our urgent community-wide priorities:
- Blog prominence so big product announcements aren't buried
- Private inbox & notifications alerts so you can better discern between the two (they are combined at the moment)
- Profile pages that you can use to showcase all of your latest conversations, replies, RSS blog feed, events you plan to attend
- Updated community experience to support major events like Microsoft Ignite and Microsoft Tech Summits
- Private communities to support invite-only NDA groups
- Styling for floated posts (right now you can't tell a post is floated)
- Sharing on social (so you can easily share on Twitter, LinkedIn etc)
- Registration experience (needs improvement in helping new members join multiple communities)
- Ideas styling needs improvement to support products who are considering opting out of UserVoice
We know the lack of a mobile app makes it difficult to be responsive in the community and it's because of this have this item committed to our roadmap. It would be unfair for me to give you an ETA when we are still trying to deliver on the above.