Thank you for your post, you are certainly not alone with that experience, and it shows the trouble experienced SCNers might have with the new platform, or even from a point of real freshers who may see it the first time.

#1 I am also not a fan of this "yesterday. 2 days ago, last week"-anonymization, the data is present in the post, so just show instead of translating it.

and I tested your findings and you are right. I entered "SRM" as search term, picked the "Issue with SRM Track Shopping Cart" http://archive.sap.com/discussions/thread/3744234  discussion which shows "2 days ago"

and when I open it I see the creation date of May 20, 2015 at 08:30 AM and the  last post to the discussion on September 29, 2015 at 13:21 PM.

Only thing that I can imagine is that someone added a new reply which is currently under moderation and cannot be seen by anybody. Anyway the date is confusing. Sorry that was nonsense, one cannot add a reply to a archived discussion, so it seems it is eventually the day of migration. Need to be analyzed

#2 You are right, it can't be seen in the search and would be a real nice feature.

It can already be seen if you just browse https://answers.sap.com/questions/index.html

# 3 http://go.sap.com/community/topic.html Browse the Community is compareable with Browse places today: http://scn.sap.com/places  So I think sorting by alphabeth is kind of okay, make use of the filters on the left.

# 4 There are no more points in the new SCN, it gets replaced by Karma

see http://scn.sap.com/community/scn-beta/blog/2016/08/31/community-beta-feedback-survey-starts-tomorrow

Pictures are not migrated. see answer in http://scn.sap.com/thread/3944673

The flag is also confusing me, as it is uncertain if it referes to the language or to your nation.

#5 you can see your own content in  https://people.sap.com/

you can see the content you are following by clicking your avatar and then Followed Activities in the context menu

Ranking will not be availabe like it is, missions will come in future, see http://scn.sap.com/community/about/blog/2016/05/10/reputation-program-reloaded

For the rest mentioned by you I have also not found a convenient way so far.

#6 is not repeatable, if I click your link then I find 202 blogs

Q1: It is a clear NO for the current platform and a YES for getting used to the new version. But such feedback like yours is helping to make the new platform better, by knowing what features  the people really miss, where they have issues in navigation and what they like.

Q2: No, the versions are not in sync. Blogs were migrated over to Beta around August 22. Discussions will be migrated into an archive. Nothing what you post in Beta will survive the GoLive, nothing will flow from Beta to the current SCN.

Q3: I haven't yet heard nor seen "archived blogs", I know about discussions which will be migrated into an archive. Archive means you can search content of the archive, you can read, but you cannot reopen or add further question to those discussions.

Q4: you can post your question in https://answers.sap.com/questions/index.html

In general you can start by clicking your avatar and then you select "Ask a Question" from the context menu.  However, based on the feedback that many people did not find that a new Actions menu is available for a few days, directly below the avatar.

Q5: Documents will be migrated into blogs, tests are ongoing.