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2016 Year in Preview: The Future of element14

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2015 has been a seriously busy year for us, and we're looking forward to an equally hectic 2016! Since Christmas, we've been investigating, with your assistance, how various tech concepts and platforms might evolve over the next 12 months., but now it's time to look inside.


To finish off our Year in Review, and our Year in Preview, let's put the spotlight on the Community itself, and open the floor for you guys to help shape its growth over the next year and beyond.


How Do We Put U into Community?


Don't pull your punches here. We really want to know what's gone wrong, what'd gone right, and where there's good cause for change, adaptation and expansion.


And we genuinely mean it when we say that this is your Community. So much like rearranging the furniture in your own home, tell us how we can make this not just a comfortable place for you to spend your precious spare time, but also what would make it more entertaining, more ergonomic, and more productive.


What aspects, programs, discussions, projects or campaigns really resonated with your this year? Which ones should we do more of, or less of, or do differently? Where do we fall short compared to the other communities, forums and websites you enjoy frequenting? What changes would make element14 a better place for you this time next year, than it is today?


Tell us all about the future of element14 Community below (and what you'd like to see, as much as what we will see), and we'll reconvene this time next year to see how close we got to the mark.

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  • This opens the floodgates and is a brave endeavour.

     

    As we said on the visit to Leeds, the search capabilities of the site are less than ideal and google seems to do better to return meaningful results.

    The end product of this is that the community holds vast great resource, but unless you can find it, you may as well write with invisible ink.

     

    For some reason new people seem to be hitting the Ben Heck area and posting every question there.

    Why??

    Is it that goggle takes them there, or is it the first thing they see and click on.?

     

    The Cadsoft is also an area that seems to attract weird and unrelated queries which have nothing to do with PCB, and needs further investigation.

     

     

    I'd like to see a decent menu for Roadtests and another for Design Challenges.

    That way you can see the previous ones, and then go to them to find the information.

     

    Otherwise I think the actual forum and the management is better than most others I have visited.

     

    Thanks

    Mark

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    mcb1 wrote:

     

    As we said on the visit to Leeds, the search capabilities of the site are less than ideal and google seems to do better to return meaningful results.

    The end product of this is that the community holds vast great resource, but unless you can find it, you may as well write with invisible ink.

    Excellent comment.  I don't use element14's search unless it's something really simple.  Sometimes I need to reference a comment I wrote a long time ago and Google is the way to do it.

     

    As with any search function, you can only search for things that you already know exist and what they're called.  Otherwise they are invisible.  It's hard to stumble on things at element14 by browsing around, so there's lots of treasure that a new user isn't going to find.  Some things are always hard to find like Cypress PSoC development boards.  I generally point people to cypress.com/psoc pages because I can't find the equivalent pages here.

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    mcb1 wrote:

     

    As we said on the visit to Leeds, the search capabilities of the site are less than ideal and google seems to do better to return meaningful results.

    The end product of this is that the community holds vast great resource, but unless you can find it, you may as well write with invisible ink.

    Excellent comment.  I don't use element14's search unless it's something really simple.  Sometimes I need to reference a comment I wrote a long time ago and Google is the way to do it.

     

    As with any search function, you can only search for things that you already know exist and what they're called.  Otherwise they are invisible.  It's hard to stumble on things at element14 by browsing around, so there's lots of treasure that a new user isn't going to find.  Some things are always hard to find like Cypress PSoC development boards.  I generally point people to cypress.com/psoc pages because I can't find the equivalent pages here.

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