Hmm, it's a lot less confusing now with the collapsed comments, but I wonder why they choose to do the "Comment on this question/answer" as a link when there is no other comment and as button when there are already comments present. Why not stick to one kind of UI thingy?

IMO the tag needs to get to another place, too. At the moment it's at the end of the question, but IMO it needs to be at the top. Maybe above the title? Or next to the timestamp and view counter. Maybe go "tagged with:" and then just put them there in a list.

I don't think taking the Actions menu of the question to another place makes a lot of sense. The space under the avatar is now really wasted. Why not use it more instead of less? oO

Putting the timestamp and view count under the title, that I like.

The up/down voting of a question is now at the top, too. So finding that takes some getting used, too.

And my last thought about this: with so many changes, why not publish a dedicated blog about this? I'd love to mention Jerry here...

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Some good ideas going on here, some others I really don't understand. Bit of a hit & miss again.

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Regards,

Steffi.

Aah, there you are, guys, and I'm discussing it all by myself in the Coffee Corner. :)

Did some answering/commenting today and I'm quite a bit confused by the new changes. An option to roll-up comments is very helpful but the rest is just - oy... Actions/views were on the right-hand side on SCN before (and still are in Discussions). Was it changed to make the question page more like the blog page? But the avatar is still on the right, so it didn't free up any space.

The addition of the "Comment on this answer" as a link looks very odd and is mildly confusing (there is also Reply that seems to appear haphazardly now). Not sure this is very helpful.

To be honest, UI just looks more messy now. Why can't someone with UI skills at SAP review such changes before they are implemented?

Have you noticed that avatars are missing in comments?

On the positive side - it looks like they applied some restriction for minimum width for nested comments:

https://answers.sap.com/questions/106239/index.html

Too bad that they did not fix the missing comment option in IE11 and Firefox (which is one of the many reasons why I misuse the comment/answer option).

@Steffi: there is just one tiny problem with chronological sorting of answers - the accepted answer is always shown at the top, no matter how you sort (reported 2 months ago).

"The comments button is not anymore a button and just became a link" - not only for question comments but for the first comment to the answer.

And the comments tree is collapsed by default - ABSOLUTELY unacceptable!!!!

Also location of the "Comment on this answer" button is strange - after all comments to the specific answer. Easy to press this button insted of "Reply" to the last comment.

Also, without filling any details click on "Submit your answer". Next, you will never get other person comments collapsing tree.