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And now the differentiation between Topics in which I have seen all posts and those in which I have not has disappeared. [Microsoft Edge browser, Windows 10].
@shaan.hurley wrote:
- Meshmixer forum is accessible in-product only.
Thanks! I brought that one forward. What/how has it been resolved though? I see no changes either in MM (link is still dead) nor in the forum location (still not listed: https://forums.autodesk.com/)
Shaan Hurley
Technologist
Between the Lines Blog
@ShaanHurley on Twitter
Right, and my original post was stating that:
Its just under Netfabb instead of on its own, or at least under Fusion360, which makes more sense since Fusion360 is slowly integrating it. Many can't find it because of that placement effecting community involvement. So I often see Meshmixer related posts under the wrong forum. Just feels like the wrong place for it.
Also the the in-product link is wrong, its a 404 error dead link. It links to: http://www.meshmixerforum.com/
10/27/2021: I can't discern a visual difference between visited and unvisited links. If that is your standard, then I forsee a lot less interaction.
So, I made a chrome extension for your forums. This is what it should look like IMO:
On further inspection, I reduced my css overwrite to
div h2 span.lia-message-unread a {
font-family: "Gill Sans", "Gill Sans MT", "Myriad Pro", "DejaVu Sans Condensed", Helvetica, Arial, "sans-serif" !important;
}
This means that whatever font you're using for links doesn't support bold or any font weight that would distinguish it from normal weight. So even though the forum says links are bold, they aren't.
This alone made the links bold without additional underlining or changing the font weight.
Within the Ideas board of any product community, there's a tab to show "Latest Ideas" which sorts ideas according to when the topic was created. However, I'd like to see this changed to the way the product forums are set up. There, under options, you can sort posts based on "Topic Start Date" or by "Latest Post Date". The "Latest Post Date" allows the user to see which posts have been commented on most recently which is a feature that is lacking on the Ideas board. There are times when I want to comment on an idea from years ago, but no one will ever see it unless they specifically search for that idea, because the activity of commenting does not move it to the top of the board.
When I click on the Search bar in this community, a new tab is opened. I can't actually search for anything because every time I click in the Search bar, it opens a new tab ![]()
@gherrmanRQ549 wrote:When I click on the Search bar in this community, a new tab is opened. I can't actually search for anything because every time I click in the Search bar, it opens a new tab
Does the same thing in Chrome.
Give users the option to delete their own comments. I can edit a post/reply that I made, but I can't delete it.
Organize comments with a tree hierarchy. Failing that, at least point the response to the actual reply number instead of the OP's username. The quote function is too much in most instances.
When the topic is sorted "Newest to Oldest" and I post a reply, I am taken to the last page with oldest comments instead of the first page with the newest comments. Obviously, I want to see my how my comment posted, so the default behavior with this sorting criteria should take me to the first page with the newest comments.
Unify/simplify the terminology for components of the forum. The following grouped terms are used with quite a bit of ambiguity.
1. Message, reply, comment.
2. Thread, topic, post.
3. Forum, board, community.
Include a link to this community hub in the "Forum Links". When I'm looking for "support" on the forums, it's almost never product help, it's help with an issue on the forum itself. This community hub is so hidden as it is and this would significantly help with generating user feedback and provide users with a more direct way of accessing the resource they actually need.
Why does Fusion 360 have this bar at the top of its community pages? Seems out of place and redundant and is different from every other product community.
These pages should be combined into one. There's a lot of overlapping information, but when you're trying to find certain information it's frustrating to have to look in two places. Combining them would simplify and streamline that data.
Having the "My community" button point to https://www.autodesk.com/community doesn't make any sense. There's nothing personalized about this page as the "My" in "My community" would imply. Something along the lines of a more detailed "Active Areas" would make more sense.
When going to a new page in the thread the opening post is shown at the top of page. Would it be possible to have the page auto scroll below that post? Having to scroll past really long opening posts every time I go to a new page is annoying. An option to not show the opening post on all pages would be the better option. I do not need to be reminded what the opening post is on every new page.
On the "Inventor iLogic, API & VBA Forum", an extremely common situation in most posts, is that there will be normal text & images, then a special area within the post just for pasting code (iLogic, VBA, VB.NET, etc.) into. This is because that is one of the main focuses of that forum. A problem I am seeing, is that sometimes the 'code area' text is being either converted into emoji's or just being completely deleted/omitted after you click the [POST] button to make it official. I am all for being able to use/include emoji's in the regular areas our posts. However, these special areas of the posts which are specifically for code, should be left out of whatever automated system is in place that tries to convert certain common keyboard character combinations into emoji's. These code areas need to be treated differently than the rest of the post, and nothing within should be automatically deleted, omitted, or converted into emoji's.
Here is a link to a thread in that forum, where this behavior is evident and a big annoyance.
Within the block of code posted, there happens to be the numeric digit 8 with the special character ) next to it. This is getting automatically converted to the 'face with sunglasses'
emoji just before clicking the [POST] button, then it gets deleted/omitted after clicking the [POST] button. Please make this behavior stop...just for these code areas of our posts.
PS: You can also momentarily see that 'smiley face with sunglasses' emoji visibly when refreshing the page (only for maybe a second or less), then it disappears again (within the code area).
Wesley Crihfield
(Not an Autodesk Employee)
There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to search either an idea or a forum post by category. When we create these post this information is gathered but it is not given back to the user in a structured manner. If I want to search an addin category of say tube and pipe or a basic thing like drawing you are presented with nothing but a flat list with no category /sub category. The search criteria seems to be inconsistent and very manual in operation. I find you are better off using an internet search than using the built in tools so not a good user experience.
Idea creation the idea is categorized but good luck in retrieving it later.
This kind of a structure would be be nice.
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