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[09-23-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

Tarek_K — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:40:29 GMT

Hi all,

as discussed in the previous topic here we wanted to start a new thread to keep everything sorted and clean, so it is easier to follow and helps transparency.

Overall, you will find in this topic community identified issues or improvements asks listed, which can be provided either as a post through this topic, or through the feedback form (or both if you want, but then please be so kind as to indicate in the post that you also submitted the feedback form). If you are reporting things here in the thread please make sure to provide a clear description of the behavior or issue, with screenshots (full browser screen, please, as this is always better) or video to help understand what you see and why to be able to reproduce.

EDIT: Adding here that as we work through some of these issues, and suggestions and post that they have been resolved or added, through the monthly Blog Posts from our Product Team (listed below), keep in mind that it is always a good practice to clear your cache / cookies from time to time, as not doing so may prevent things from working even after they have been "Fixed". PSA. Thank you! (8/15/25 - CGBenner)

In addition to that, you will find here the consecutive list of all blog posts linked when it comes to platform updates around the community! We also will keep editing this topic with new blog posts released for convenience having it all in one place 🙂

Navigable list of community issues or improvements mentioned including status:

Listing of all the blog-post regarding updates to the community and modernization in order oldest to newest:

Additional Notes:

Also, people you will see engaging with you in this thread will be @CGBenner and myself @Tarek_K. So please feel free to add us if there is something super urgent or elements you want to highlight. We are also highly proficient community users, but don't have the ability to fix things on the fly (where we can we will. :D) but we make sure that internally all goes into the right venue, will be looked at and discussed so you will see elements mentioned in the update blog-posts and also in the updated list above.

So, let´s keep this new thread a single source of truth for the discussion moving forward - all from the old topic you should see reflected in the list, which we regularly update.

If you have questions, or you think I should add something to this post let me know! 🙂 Thanks a lot for your support, patience, understanding and working together!

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

kerry_w_brown — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 22:00:01 GMT

@Tarek_K ,
Regarding The List Item 3: You have completely missed the point of the post discussion.
My reference to 'fat finger room' was simply a warning about placing icons or artifacts that act as buttons too close together, and only applied to mobile and tablet users.
That discussion was related to a possible design layout changes to perhaps make the forum topic listing more readable.
From memory the issue only applied to the replies icon, which does not need to be a link anyway as the topic name serves as the link to to the replies.

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For interests sake, which of the 134 items listed are still valid and which 7 do you think are the most important for the everyday users of the forums ?

Regards,

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

CGBenner — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:36:38 GMT

@kerry_w_brown wrote:

@Tarek_K ,
Regarding The List Item 3: You have completely missed the point of the post discussion.
My reference to 'fat finger room' was simply a warning about placing icons or artifacts that act as buttons too close together, and only applied to mobile and tablet users.

@kerry_w_brown Thank you for clarifying what you meant on this item. I think most people in the US would understand the term "fat finger", but several members of the team who are not US based may not quite get it. As I have abnormally large thumbs (or it feels like it sometimes) I totally get your frustration on mobile devices.

I'll work with Tarek to get that specific feedback added to the list for the Product team so they have it when they look at this item.

I'll let @Tarek_K answer part 2 of your question if he has any thoughts on that part.
Have a great day!

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

Cadguru42 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:14:36 GMT

#34 about the excessive scrolling required to even see posts is marked as "Improved", but it's actually worse.

This is the ACC forum as I see it on my standard monitor.

It takes 8 scrolls of the mouse wheel (3 lines for each scroll) just to see the first two posts because now there's not just one huge unrelated banner, now there's two giant ones.

As a side note, just to get to the ACC forums was confusing. I was coming from the C3D forum and clicked on the Architecture, Engineering & Construction link thinking it'd show up there. Couldn't find it.

So I had to click on Home, scroll down and look at what forums were listed, which ACC wasn't listed. So then I clicked on the Show More button then scrolled yet again to finally find the ACC forum.

Navigation of the forums is more difficult with this "upgrade" that's still buggy. Is no one working on the forum updates actually using the forums? How does this increase productivity or help the users get to the info they want better than the previous iteration?

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

Tarek_K — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:14:20 GMT

Hi @Cadguru42 ,

I wanted to follow up on your feedback and provide some further details on your points to start with, but I definitely hear you. Overall, the ACC Community is unique in that we have both the Autodesk Community forums and the Big Room as platforms, with the Big Room providing more industry-specific opportunities for AEC professionals, whereas the forums focus on the question, answer, help, and feedback aspect.

The intent originally was to connect AEC professionals on the Community to the Big Room and vice versa, which was implemented, I think over a year ago, to provide more opportunities to network and engage. When you are signed in to the Big Room and the Autodesk Community, the 'banner' updates and displays content from the Big Room on the ACC Community.

I admit that having two banners now in this forum is suboptimal when it comes to scrolling down to be fair. I raised this internally for the UX teams to be aware of and to address this, which is reflected in the line item #130. Also, I can see why the improvements mentioned in #34 have not become apparent, due to showing two banners in this very specific place only.

Also to address your second point, the navigation in the header through the breadcrumb structure should bring you to this page where under this point you can see all forums, including ACC / Civil 3D, every AEC specific one. So, you are saying it was easier for you to navigate back to the home and navigate form there vs using the possibility on the AEC page? Just checking, as this might be an interesting point to bring internally.

@kerry_w_brown - sorry for missing the point to be fair, but as not being English native speaker this was definitely some cultural slip as Chris explained I guess.

So actually I brought in all functional impairments which I could reproduce to the internal teams to consider first, which are elements like text editor, the coding issues, but also usability elements like floated topics, jumping to the latest post, etc. and basically everything that prevents someone from using some function in the community fully. What I am doing is trying to bring all your voices internally in way that makes common sense from a long term community user perspective, that elements are improved or fixed like that.

Hope that answers the questions here! 🙂

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

Cadguru42 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:41:44 GMT

@Tarek_K it's not just the ACC forum with the excessive scrolling issue. That one's worse because of two banners, but the others have not been improved either. Autodesk added the giant "Let there be anything" banner that has nothing related to Civil 3D on it's forum page as well. I'm assuming all of the forums have this. The spacing issue that was slightly improved was completely wiped out and made worse when this banner was added.

If I go to a forum I expect to see posts. You don't even see posts when you go to a forum anymore.

As for the navigation issue, this is what I see when I click on the way-to-long name of Architecture, Engineering & Construction.

The first time I did this I scroll down and still didn't see anything about ACC. I scrolled back up and noticed a tiny arrow above the images and clicked it.

Still no ACC forum listed. If I click the tiny See all button it ends up being the first one listed.

Either doing it this way or the way I did it before is still a lot of user interactions required to get to a forum compared to how it was before the changes. This is not an improvement and turns off many people from using the site.

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

a.laasW8M6T — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:50:01 GMT

So 6 + months in and the forums are still a nightmare to navigate.

Really the only actual improvement to the forums was the addition of the breadcrumbs.(Breadcrumbs are useless on mobile now with the addition of Industry hubs as the last one is cut off)

Still some major issues need fixing:

Every time you go back in the browser the page is right at the bottom and you must scroll back up to find where you left off from
No page numbering at the top of the page means you must scroll right to the bottom to navigate multipage threads
Cannot go directly to the latest post from the Topic listing(add page numbering to the topic listings?)
Still cannot upload .f3z files to the Fusion forums
Pinned posts are low visibility
Massive space wasting banner above the Activity Feed

Any updates on these items?

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

CGBenner — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:51:14 GMT

@a.laasW8M6T

Hello Andrew. I have checked these items against the list that Tarek posted in his opening to this thread, and the only item that I did not see is the request to add .f3z files as attachments. I will add that request to the list. The rest of the list is something that we continue to work on with the product team. The list is being kept as up to date as possible, and the status of each item is on the table. I know that a new update is coming soon, and I will be posting in this thread when that happens.

Thank you all for working with us on this.

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

CGBenner — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:13:51 GMT

The July blog post from our Product team is now live and has been added to the list in the top post on this thread. Also sharing it HERE so you don't have to scroll up. As you can see, they are starting to chip away at the list that @Tarek_K shared in the opening post. Lots of work still to do, and suggestions to consider, so stay tuned as future updates come through here.

Thanks all!

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

a.laasW8M6T — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:56:09 GMT

@CGBenner

The latest update has some good improvements. certainly getting better.

I see that issue number 80 in the table is marked as solved but going back in the browser still jumps to the bottom of the page.

The .f3z file are on the approved attachments list, but will only upload if you drag and drop them into a reply, if you select browse to pick the file it fails.

This makes helping users very difficult as they have trouble uploading files for diagnosis(most people will click browse to upload files)

The header of the page is soo large that you can't see any actual posts as @Cadguru42 mentioned above.

This needs to be made more compact, removing the "Let there be anything" banner would help a lot here here.

Moving the product logo beside the title would help condense things too

The "Related Tags" box on the right side of the page should just be removed altogether, I don't see it actually adding any value at all.

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

CGBenner — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:54:15 GMT

@a.laasW8M6T

Thank you for this feedback! I hadn't had the chance to test all of this yet myself. Let me push some of your comments back to the team to look into. 👍

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

CGBenner — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:59:24 GMT

@a.laasW8M6T

I'd love to get more information on this one: "I see that issue number 80 in the table is marked as solved but going back in the browser still jumps to the bottom of the page."

Would you be able to walk me through a workflow where this fails for you, maybe even a recording of the steps, so that I can share with the team to try to reproduce?

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

a.laasW8M6T — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:10:07 GMT

The behavior is still the same as its been since it broke.

Going back from threads near the top of the feed is fine but once you get further down it jumps back to the page bottom.

see recording

(view in My Videos)

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

CGBenner — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:29:05 GMT

@a.laasW8M6T

Thank you so much for the video! Tarek & I looked at it yesterday and it will be shared with the team working on these fixes for us.

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

CodeDing — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:57:09 GMT

Hi @Tarek_K and @CGBenner ,

First,

The Airtable embedding on this post is very fancy and useful. Thank you for adding it.

Second,

I browsed the bugs and suggestions, and would like to suggest that we once-again remove the word-wrap from code blocks. It's harder to read the code and makes the Mobile experience worse.

This was discussed once before (i can't find the page), and subsequently fixed, but has now become a problem once again.

Best,

~DD

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

CGBenner — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:46:57 GMT

@CodeDing

Hello! I grabbed a screenshot from a random post containing code.... is the below what you are referring to, just so we have a visual to show the product team?

Thanks in advance!

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

CodeDing — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:56:53 GMT

@CGBenner ,

Yes that's it

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

CGBenner — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:16:08 GMT

@CodeDing

Thank you for verifying. I'll share this with the team, and see if we can get it changed.

Re: [01-07-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

CGBenner — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:00:46 GMT

The August blog post from our Product team is now live and has been added to the list in the top post on this thread. Also sharing it here so you don't have to scroll up.

Re: [08-08-2025] Community Modernization - Communications, Updates & Discussions

a.laasW8M6T — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 08:17:48 GMT

@CGBenner There's some good stuff in that update.

I have noticed a few New issues with the Mobile site now though.

So here, the Notifications etc now appear down below the Autodesk Logo instead of to the right like they used to(This takes up more vertical space than before)

Having the Icons at the top now back to white is great though, I'm loving that, much more visible

Also the Breadcrumbs on mobile are now even worse than before.

In the above example I'm browsing the Fusion Manufacture Forum, and If I want to go back to all Fusion forums You cannot directly click on the "Fusion Forums" part of the breadcrumbs as its not visible, you need to go all the way back to the PD&M list and then back into Fusion Forums.

If anything the PD&M part should be collapsed and you should be able to see the current and next level back.

and/Or there should be a way of expanding the breadcrumbs on mobile, or they could just wrap to a new line.

They are a very hand navigation feature and are now unusable(On mobile, desktop is fine)