Updates to Autodesk Discussion Groups

[wrighte]

On June 4, Autodesk is upgrading the technology behind our discussion groups. The result is a significant improvement to posting & replying, navigation, search and other features. While we launch this upgrade, the discussion groups will be unavailable from 3pm (PDT) Thursday, June 3 and Friday June 4.

As part of the upgrade, Autodesk has taken the decision to discontinue the time-honored use of the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). This was a difficult and bittersweet decision, given the company’s past investments to maintain NNTP, but one necessary to continue providing the state-of-art web experience Autodesk customers have come to expect. For active NNTP users, we know this will change your workflow when using the forums. To help transition to the web-based forums, the new updates include a simpler, more intuitive interface to post and reply, bookmarking and e-mail notification features to track favorite posts, and more powerful search tools. While not a substitute for the NNTP experience, the streamlined capabilities of our RSS feeds also provide an enhanced and alternative offline forum reading experience.

Autodesk is excited about this change, and is confident that all the valued users of our discussion groups will quickly appreciate and benefit from the improvements to this web experience.


Eric Wright
Product Manager – Support & Learning
Web & eBusiness
Autodesk, Inc.

[andrewpuller3811]

A very positive, nicely worded post.

I wonder if the replys will be the same? 🙂

[wrighte]

I expect mixed results. I hope you like the changes.

[Anonymous]

BIG mistake (My side, anyway)

Arad


wrote in message news:6398106@discussion.autodesk.com...
I expect mixed results. I hope you like the changes.

[Anonymous]

OK Eric, obviously most of us will give it a shot. I can only think that
"Autodesk is excited . . ." because of the money they will save. I wonder
what the cost saving per SEAT is worth. I just can't help myself here.

Bill

wrote in message news:6398106@discussion.autodesk.com...
I expect mixed results. I hope you like the changes.

[Anonymous]

As I stated in the other thread talking about this, I think it's a poor
decision on Autodesk's part to not use NNTP. Searching in an online
forum will never be as easy as it is with a newsgroup reader. These
forums will have less participation than they currently do from just
this one decision.

With Thunderbird I can put a star next to a thread and / or individual
posts to quickly look at something I find interesting. If there's a
reply to it, all I have to do is scroll down and I see the star quickly.
The web forum most likely will not a feature similar to that.

Also, our Information Control Department (sometimes referred to as IT)
has been blocking almost everything lately, including Design Review's
download. I just hope our IC department doesn't block the forums.

Tanzillo in the 2011 NG started an online poll about this.

Poll:
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AQ42RHP34

Results:
http://www.zoomerang.com/Shared/SharedResultsPasswordPage.aspx?ID=L24DGKT3NECS


EB
-----------------------
Win7 Pro 64-bit
Civil 3D 2011 64-bit
6GB RAM

On 5/26/2010 9:15 PM, wrighte wrote:
> On June 4, Autodesk is upgrading the technology behind our discussion groups. The result is a significant improvement to posting& replying, navigation, search and other features. While we launch this upgrade, the discussion groups will be unavailable from 3pm (PDT) Thursday, June 3 and Friday June 4.
>
> As part of the upgrade, Autodesk has taken the decision to discontinue the time-honored use of the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). This was a difficult and bittersweet decision, given the company’s past investments to maintain NNTP, but one necessary to continue providing the state-of-art web experience Autodesk customers have come to expect. For active NNTP users, we know this will change your workflow when using the forums. To help transition to the web-based forums, the new updates include a simpler, more intuitive interface to post and reply, bookmarking and e-mail notification features to track favorite posts, and more powerful search tools. While not a substitute for the NNTP experience, the streamlined capabilities of our RSS feeds also provide an enhanced and alternative offline forum reading experience.
>
> Autodesk is excited about this change, and is confident that all the valued users of our discussion groups will quickly appreciate and benefit from the improvements to this web experience.
>
>
> Eric Wright
> Product Manager – Support& Learning
> Web& eBusiness
> Autodesk, Inc.

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[Anonymous]

Srayos, I am in the same boat. I believe participation will suffer, which
in turn hurts the people that use the software. This is a wonderful place
to find information. Eliminating the newsgroup components and access is not
a good idea.

"Srayos Endbringer" wrote in message
news:6399324@discussion.autodesk.com...
As I stated in the other thread talking about this, I think it's a poor
decision on Autodesk's part to not use NNTP. Searching in an online
forum will never be as easy as it is with a newsgroup reader. These
forums will have less participation than they currently do from just
this one decision.

With Thunderbird I can put a star next to a thread and / or individual
posts to quickly look at something I find interesting. If there's a
reply to it, all I have to do is scroll down and I see the star quickly.
The web forum most likely will not a feature similar to that.

Also, our Information Control Department (sometimes referred to as IT)
has been blocking almost everything lately, including Design Review's
download. I just hope our IC department doesn't block the forums.

Tanzillo in the 2011 NG started an online poll about this.

Poll:
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AQ42RHP34

Results:
http://www.zoomerang.com/Shared/SharedResultsPasswordPage.aspx?ID=L24DGKT3NECS


EB
-----------------------
Win7 Pro 64-bit
Civil 3D 2011 64-bit
6GB RAM

On 5/26/2010 9:15 PM, wrighte wrote:
> On June 4, Autodesk is upgrading the technology behind our discussion
> groups. The result is a significant improvement to posting& replying,
> navigation, search and other features. While we launch this upgrade, the
> discussion groups will be unavailable from 3pm (PDT) Thursday, June 3 and
> Friday June 4.
>
> As part of the upgrade, Autodesk has taken the decision to discontinue the
> time-honored use of the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). This was a
> difficult and bittersweet decision, given the company's past investments
> to maintain NNTP, but one necessary to continue providing the state-of-art
> web experience Autodesk customers have come to expect. For active NNTP
> users, we know this will change your workflow when using the forums. To
> help transition to the web-based forums, the new updates include a
> simpler, more intuitive interface to post and reply, bookmarking and
> e-mail notification features to track favorite posts, and more powerful
> search tools. While not a substitute for the NNTP experience, the
> streamlined capabilities of our RSS feeds also provide an enhanced and
> alternative offline forum reading experience.
>
> Autodesk is excited about this change, and is confident that all the
> valued users of our discussion groups will quickly appreciate and benefit
> from the improvements to this web experience.
>
>
> Eric Wright
> Product Manager - Support& Learning
> Web& eBusiness
> Autodesk, Inc.

--

[Anonymous]

Hi,

The only hope of overcoming this madness is to go to the top. Write to
Carl Bass ad tell him how horrified you are.


Regards

Laurie Comerford

On 29/05/2010 4:31 AM, mike hathaway wrote:
> Srayos, I am in the same boat. I believe participation will suffer, which
> in turn hurts the people that use the software. This is a wonderful place
> to find information. Eliminating the newsgroup components and access is not
> a good idea.
>
> "Srayos Endbringer" wrote in message
> news:6399324@discussion.autodesk.com...
> As I stated in the other thread talking about this, I think it's a poor
> decision on Autodesk's part to not use NNTP. Searching in an online
> forum will never be as easy as it is with a newsgroup reader. These
> forums will have less participation than they currently do from just
> this one decision.
>
> With Thunderbird I can put a star next to a thread and / or individual
> posts to quickly look at something I find interesting. If there's a
> reply to it, all I have to do is scroll down and I see the star quickly.
> The web forum most likely will not a feature similar to that.
>
> Also, our Information Control Department (sometimes referred to as IT)
> has been blocking almost everything lately, including Design Review's
> download. I just hope our IC department doesn't block the forums.
>
> Tanzillo in the 2011 NG started an online poll about this.
>
> Poll:
> http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AQ42RHP34
>
> Results:
> http://www.zoomerang.com/Shared/SharedResultsPasswordPage.aspx?ID=L24DGKT3NECS
>
>
> EB
> -----------------------
> Win7 Pro 64-bit
> Civil 3D 2011 64-bit
> 6GB RAM
>
> On 5/26/2010 9:15 PM, wrighte wrote:
>> On June 4, Autodesk is upgrading the technology behind our discussion
>> groups. The result is a significant improvement to posting& replying,
>> navigation, search and other features. While we launch this upgrade, the
>> discussion groups will be unavailable from 3pm (PDT) Thursday, June 3 and
>> Friday June 4.
>>
>> As part of the upgrade, Autodesk has taken the decision to discontinue the
>> time-honored use of the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). This was a
>> difficult and bittersweet decision, given the company's past investments
>> to maintain NNTP, but one necessary to continue providing the state-of-art
>> web experience Autodesk customers have come to expect. For active NNTP
>> users, we know this will change your workflow when using the forums. To
>> help transition to the web-based forums, the new updates include a
>> simpler, more intuitive interface to post and reply, bookmarking and
>> e-mail notification features to track favorite posts, and more powerful
>> search tools. While not a substitute for the NNTP experience, the
>> streamlined capabilities of our RSS feeds also provide an enhanced and
>> alternative offline forum reading experience.
>>
>> Autodesk is excited about this change, and is confident that all the
>> valued users of our discussion groups will quickly appreciate and benefit
>> from the improvements to this web experience.
>>
>>
>> Eric Wright
>> Product Manager - Support& Learning
>> Web& eBusiness
>> Autodesk, Inc.
>
> --