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What have you discovered that has improved your user experience at the new E14 Community site?

colporteur

I have been feeling disconnected from the E14Community since the move to the new site. The majority of the feelings came from actually not being able to communicate after the move. I could receive but not transmit. Making or responding to posts wasn’t possible. Rather frustrating to read stuff and no be able to respond. After being shown a work around that enabled my transmit, the communication part has been solved.

The disconnect feeling remains because things have moved and I can't find what was once familiar to me. I will continue to struggle until I can reconnect with the sources of information I had on the old site. Here are some touch points I have been using to help recover from my disconnect. 

In the past I ignored the the landing page and clicked on CONTENT All. From that site pulse point, I got a reasonable picture of changes in the environment. The CONTENT All doesn’t exist on the new site.

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My lesson 101 to reconnect is to invest in the Landing page. I turn over the tabs of Recent Content section in the lower part of the Landing Page. The posts under these tabs are suppose to reflect some of the site content as it is updated. There are some issues with this being updated but tech support is aware and working on it. Since RoadTest are important to me, I also explore what is under the RoadTests button from the landing page.

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My third location for content culling is the Member Area. From the landing page it is easy to navigate to the location.

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I pursue the Recent Discussions section for details.

That is three touch points I am investing in to re-establish my connection. If you have discovered something on the new site that has helped reconnect, I encourage you to share. The faster we can discover what works, the faster our community returns.

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  • Keeping with the theme of discovery, I received and error message and then discovered the cause and how to fix it. Here is the knowledge.

    I made a forum post, unknown to me it wasn't in the most appropriate group.  The moderator moved it and I lost the ability to reply and received an error message, indicated by the two eclipses.

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    Wait! This worked before and doesn't work now? I know what has changed because I was told. Let's see if I can figure it out.

    I clikced on the Arduino group from the above message.

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    I was taken to this group screen. One eclipse indicates the group. By selecting the join option I was rewarded with the joined group message.

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    Now I get a reply button. This group thing still has be befuddled. I ask the moderators endulgence untill I get it figured out. For now I resolved the issue myself! Does E14 community have a badge for that?

  • in reply to colporteur

    The intervention by the moderator to move the post to a more appropriate forum highlighted how disconnected I am from the new site. I'm not familiar with the technology but I get the impression Groups has some significance. I have asked questions about establishing a group's list before being called to join. I'm trying a preemptive strike of joining some Groups to see if I get more feedback on the activity in the community.

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    Using the blue bar listing Member, Learn, Technologies, Challenges & Projects and Products, I joined some groups. In the example I went to the Challenges & Projects list and selected Raspberry Pi Projects, the screen to join (notice at the bottom) appeared. I completed the join request.

    I've gone from having a listing of two groups to about ten now. Subjects I had a past interest in I now selected that Group. I'm hoping this will generate some more activity under my lighting bolt. 

    I've been manually scraping pages to discover the content I would have typically viewed on the old site. I'm hoping this eliminates the manual exercise.

  • in reply to colporteur

    I'm also working with the development team and top members on a 'recent activity view' and where that should live on the site.

  • in reply to cstanton

    Maybe the forum software already has a good location for it.
    If not, here is where this type of info was available before (orange annotations in right upper corner)

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    The envelope was what the two icons left of the avator are now.
    The Activity link is what used to show all activity on the forum, sorted by age, newest first.

  • in reply to cstanton

    Great news. I happen to stumble across David Edwards, The Electronics Inside 50: Apple Macintosh SE/30 Teardown when an image appeared on the main page. I had to join the group to view. I then thought about how much more content have I missed. I'm not confident joining the ten or so groups I located will indicate new content but I will keep trying ideas to see what works.

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