My first usage confirms what the sneak previews suggested.
Mostly mediocre management pleasing nonsense.
WAY too much whitespace, WAY too little meat on on any given page.
Folks, It is about the CONTENT not about the window dressing.
Way too much scrolling down and back over to get to the meat.
Can we PLEASE start with getting rid of the 645x136 pixel 'Join the Conversation' nonsense?
With the trimming that seems to take half the page on a (nowadays sadly common) 1366x768 laptop screen.
How is that helping anyone?
The only button I need is the 'View All' in the "RECENT TOPICS", but that's at the very bottom.
And once you pick a topic the 'next' will stay in the category for the topic, not in the 'view all' list :-(.
Maybe it is just me, but I am category agnostic, even OS agnostics to some extent.
Once I am in 'HPUX' I want to see all new HPUX no matter what flavor.
Once I put my OpenVMS hat back on, I want to see all its topics.
The 'view all' comes close to that, but it does not 'stick'. :-(.
Also to be removed, the the near-empty repeat category line.
The final category is on the navigation line already. We can read.
Solved posted are very interesting... but only at the end of a specific search IMHO.
In general the 'Solved' post should be WAY down at the bottom, if it has value at all.
It is utterly useless on the 'Community Home' and next level down.
At those levels thinks are way to wide/broad to expect any entry in 'solved' to be of interested to a random passer by. But I'm sure it pleases the managers that paid the designers.
Cheers,
Hein
