Feedback Request: Potential MSDN Forums RSS Improvements

re: Feedback Request: Potential MSDN Forums RSS Improvements

Todd Richardson — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:18:35 GMT

It looks well thought out and really useful. I like how the answer has "(answer)" ammended to it, but maybe this could go at the front of the subject, since on longer posts this will be truncated. Otherwise it looks great... any timeframe? :-)

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Nektar — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:25:01 GMT

Microsoft should think the concept of user community interaction and how users will provide feedback on products, as well as how they will receive support.
Currently, the community is not unitedQ Newsgroups are supporting users, forums on MSDn do the same, Channel9 help with the feedback and give a place for general discussions.
However: We need a unified community and a clear plan which will be accepted and used by the community. It should provide a fast and simple way for providing feedback, for getting community support and for discussing Microsoft in general. Gotdotnet, Channel9, MSND Forums, the thousands of Newsgroups are good but we need to unify them.
A single community, not so many different ones, even communities that noone knows about.

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Björn Graf — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:13:55 GMT

Just a consitency comment: settle with either XML or RSS in the subscribtion links - I would use RSS :]

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Stephane Rodriguez — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 23:45:24 GMT

+1 for the RSS in search results.

-1 for the web-based newsgroup : the idea that viewing a post means a complete page refresh is bad, really bad.

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jledgard — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:42:15 GMT

Todd: I was thinking the end to maintain the ability to effectivly sort by subject if you wanted. Not sure on the timeframe. We're looking to have another upgrade to the forum system in the fall.

Nektar: Different strokes for different folks. For developers however we are pushing MSDN forums (you've seen consolidation of the windowsform.net site allready) and the Product Feedback center (over channel9 for feedback). Newsgroups have been there for discussions and will always be there as an option for people that preffer them.

Bjorn: Yes, we'll likely use RSS. That's why I had the "Bad PM Art" warning.

Stephane: This is one reason we're adding RSS support to the forums. We'll also be doing some other things that make it clear we understand this feedback. :-)

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Stephane Rodriguez — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:53:26 GMT

"We'll also be doing some other things that make it clear we understand this feedback"

One of the best implementations available out there is Codeproject forums. I am sure you could contract one of the guys.
Of course, you might also do some Ajax weirdos, but definitely this is not what Codeproject does, and that's GOOD.

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Minh — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:36:59 GMT

These are all great goals. The feature I'm most looking forward to is the thread-level RSS feed. This will let me monitor my own question in my RSS reader. Yes, I know "Alert Me" is there, but with the feed, I can have info coming at me in one app & I can visibly see what I'm subcribing to.

Keep up the great work. Still hoping all the gurus hanging out NNTP move over to the web (RSS) site. I still have to monitor both places right now. But, really, it's no biggie.

re: Feedback Request: Potential MSDN Forums RSS Improvements

kevin — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:20:36 GMT

Channel category/categories.

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re: Feedback Request: Potential MSDN Forums RSS Improvements

Michael Herman — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:07:51 GMT

It is very arrogant for Microsoft to assert that it owns the copyright on all community members' postings and replies to these discussion forums.

Is this one of the reasons Microsoft is using its own proprietary web application instead of supporting open standards like NNTP? ...as virtually all of the WinFX components have been doing for 2+ years.

re: Feedback Request: Potential MSDN Forums RSS Improvements

Michael Herman — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:48:26 GMT

Re: The RSS sample feed

This feed doesn't include replies ...just what appears to be references to 2 origial postings.

An RSS need is primarily a notification and publiciation mechanism. It is not useful to just include the original posting in a forum-level RSS feed. The feed to needs to advertise each reply in addition to the original posting. This is obvious.

re: Feedback Request: Potential MSDN Forums RSS Improvements

Michael Herman — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:50:28 GMT

It's October 2005. Does this spec refer to the current October 2005 implementation of RSS on the MS technical forums? ...or does it refer to a future implementation?

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jledgard — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:00:43 GMT

Michael: What reader are you using where you don't see the replies? I'm using RSSBandit and I see the replies in my sample feed. If you read the spec you'll see that I do call for each item to define reply count and implement the CommentRSS spec implementation that several blog sites have been supporting for a long time.

This reffers to our planned future implementation.

NNTP: Essentially we are opening up another venue/channel for community support. Several customers actually prefer this alternative to the standard NNTP implementations.

The Forums support a private NNTP feed for experts, but there is a lot of functionality (edits/answer marking/moderation, faq views, etc) that are only possible in web forum implementation. For a deeper explination of this please read this (http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=690) and this (http://blogs.msdn.com/jledgard/archive/2005/04/17/409057.aspx) .

re: Feedback Request: Potential MSDN Forums RSS Improvements

majula — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:54:36 GMT

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