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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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)

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.

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.

The ‘content’ button on the left of the nav bar was the best feature of the old site.  Select that and ‘blogs’ and see all blog posts (not comments) in date modified order.  Then click on that button and ‘discussions’ and see all discussions (not comments) in date modified order.  And so on for all content types.

date modified was set as date created OR date modified by the author OR date of last comment.

Now we have to spot new content within the first 10 entries on the home page (or 20 on Sitemap page) before it disappears into the noise.  I wanted to post a link to a specific discussion that was active in comments.  It didn’t appear in the first 10 entries so I tried page 2, page 3, page 4 and gave up.  That was an active discussion with the latest comment a small number of hours previously (3 I think).  I did find it as entry 13 Sitemap page.

even though this discussion is reasonably active, it isn’t to be found in recent activity and hasn’t appeared there for a long time.  I’d forgotten all about it and came across it again by chance. 

The equivalent to that content button is what the new site desperately misses.  A good alternative would be to put a show/hide comments in the results filter.

I chuckled after reading your comments. I have had a similar experience when trying to hunt down content I think I have seen but maybe it was my imagination.

Even this post I am unable to find in MyContent now. Well, that is not true I can stumble across it after what seems to be a long search. I'm still grieving for the old All Content selection.

I chuckled after reading your comments. I have had a similar experience when trying to hunt down content I think I have seen but maybe it was my imagination.

Even this post I am unable to find in MyContent now. Well, that is not true I can stumble across it after what seems to be a long search. I'm still grieving for the old All Content selection.