Feedback on the new forums site:
1- Searching - doesn't show results when there are clearly matching posts. eg look at
this forum you'll see posts with BHO in the title, but they're not found if you search on 'bho'. Similarly taking a few words I find in some posts (eg synchronize) and searching on them brings back no posts. Kinda important!
2- Searching - when you search
within a forum your search string gets changed to something unreadable
like "
bho meta:Search.MSForums.ForumID(46f63ce5-4a0c-4354-9ca8-82ea8d765775)". Would be much better to read "
bho forum:Internet-Explorer-Extension-Development" or similar.
3- When I Submit a reply to an existing thread the section of the window with my reply disappears (correctly), but my reply doesn't show up on the thread. I have to refresh the page manually to see it, otherwise it appears as if my reply has just disappeared.
4- Format Code Block doesn't have an option for C++
5- If I type some code, select it, then click Format Code Block it puts "<br>" in place of newlines. Very annoying!
6- The 'hyperlink manager' takes a while to load. Long enough I'm put off using it, even though it's just a matter of about 1s. I like that you can open it with CTRL-K, perhaps it would be good to put that in the tooltip text of the button.
7- When I click on the Hyperlink Manager I can't immediately paste my link using CTRL-V. I don't know where focus is but it should be put into the url box, and then ENTER should perform the OK action.
8- The
Internet Explorer Extension Development forum still shows a sticky 'Forum Lockdown Notice' which incorrectly says posts are disabled.
9- Forums are currently showing an alert at the top relating to scheduled maintenance for yesterday.
10- I'm not receiving email alerts to a new post I just created and have had a reply from.
11- The forums don't say which email will be used for email alerts. I'm guessing it's the same as the windows live email address as there's no way I can see to edit it in the Forums profile.
12- I just changed my Display Name and while threads I created show up in my profile, when I look at the thread it shows my old display name as the Thread Starter, and clicking through on that profile name doesn't take me to a profile. Perhaps this is just caching or desired behaviour, which I guess is fine.
13- The thread-listing for a forum doesn't correctly show the latest post, perhaps it's caching a little bit too much. eg Last reply on top thread
here is wrong as a more recent post was added over an hour ago. I've tried force-refreshing my browser and using a different browser, to no avail.
(I'm using Firefox 3 on XP)
thanks,
- Rory
