Has The New SAP Community Killed The Community?

Well that no just your impression but mine too. Just try to go straight from top menu to Community-> Q&A you land in huge infohub with thousands of questions from all components I'm not interested and you? Who need such feature? And from Community -> Browse community you just land in a Browser try to pick up Abap Development and you see "featured content" and then below blogs and later... questions but last 5 that take whole screen..

I think the notification not being sent to the mail is the biggest disaster

who really has the time to keep logging in to check the reply to the question which was posted I use to do that once a day and then go back based on what reply im getting

but now its just once... and rather than answering questions its more fun reading these sort of posts where everyone shares similar feeling now since around a month and It doesnt feel like things are going to be any better...

sigh .. I too miss the old community

It didn't kill the community but it has been severely wounded though.

Community participation is obstructed by atrocious design and hideous pain inducing colour scheme.
We were able to glance many questions at once and decide then which were interesting to answer. Now you can see about a dozen updates at a time, so if a question has been answered 12 times in a short span your entire notification is about 1 question before you have to physically click the more button.

I still participate but at least two thirds less than I used to.

Kind regards, Rob Dielemans

Apart the questions&answers that somehow still works (i prefer do not say a word about the quality and fruibility), yes, the community is dead.

I open a discussion under coffee corner space and the feeling is the same among most members.

Shai,

I cannot tell if it has completely killed the community. There are 4,500 + questions now which means people still participate. But how many of this questions are actually being answered beats me. But I can tell you for sure they lost one participant: me. My contributions has stopped since the go live of the new site. It's too painful to use and too time consuming. I'll come back next month to see if the next scrum sprint has been implemented hoping the many design flaws and bugs have been fixed.

Regards,

Ricardo

The LE (warehouse management) community has gone from about 10 questions a day to 21 questions in total since the switch over. The ABAP tag seems to be picking back up - I guess programmers are used to wading through interfaces that are less than ideal.

While the system is not very useable now, how about we put together priorities so that we can help SAP will have the biggest pain points they need to fix. Now I wish we had a place to put a poll!

My big 3 are -

1. Filter the questions on tags
2. Central place to manage followed activity.
3. Separate (at least visually) questions versus responses in the lists (activity and questions)
4. Yeah, I said big 3, but this is a biggie too - Followed activity is littered with stuff that I didn't follow - This may be something that can be mitigated with a fix to #2 above.

Yes. It's hard to find anything now, or to zero in on a subject area. The BW question & answer forum: I can't tell if it even exists anymore.

Hello Shai,

I think that badly wounded would be more precise. Pain is natural when we talk about changes but the pain level on this new SCN is higher than they expected.

Anyway, I think all we, as users, can do is keep trying, giving feedback, answering questions, writing blogs and move on. We are the moving parts of this community. Hopefully, in the near future, the UX will reach a maturity level that we all expect.

Remember: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger (or wish you were dead).

Regards,
JN

I do agree, it has killed the enticement of getting online on forum site to answer or read Q&As.

Hi Shai,..

I do agree with you,...

its much complicated and I can't even make myself to participant on it anymore,...