On the editor and the dropdown editor selection, we found that to be necessary to support Markdown. The HTML editor can process Markdown itself but we found in testing that the parser gets interrupted by things like page validation in the case of the user not inputting a required field, plus in other scenarios such as editing the page the Markdown processor wasn't being invoked as expected and the raw Markdown was being saved unprocessed. We may revisit this in the future but the Plain Text option in the dropdown was the most reliable thing to offer now.

Hi Mike,

As Ben pointed out, the Developer Community is new but improving each week. We hope that the content that's being posted here is interesting and useful, which will make people like yourself visit it often. Besides providing our customers with a forum for asking questions and getting direct feedback from InterSystems developers, system engineers and product managers, you will find deep technical content here that is not available elsewhere.

I can help address some of your questions:

- If you have a question about one of the products or would like some feedback on a particular technical scenario, make a new posting. Choose a Group that most closely matches the topic in the posting and add any additional tags to the message that you think are relevant. Tagging will be an increasingly important part of the functionality and cross-linking of content.

- Read tracking hasn't been introduced yet but is in the backlog for consideration.

- My Content displays all content that the logged in user either authored themselves or made a comment on. This will help them find content that they've collaborated on. 

- Members are other people in the Developer Community. Communities are basically "Groups" or logical groupings of postings according to topic.

- Favorite is basically "Subscribe" which allows you to track any updates to a posting. The system will notify you when people comment or the posting is updated. Subscription functionality is something we are designing and will do some additional work on.

- Points: we will be reworking the "gamification" of the site in the upcoming months. There is no real impact or functionality associated with it at this time.

Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.

 

Paul

yes, we are still tweaking the sorting. Now that we have filtering it makes the radioactive value (popularity proxy) less important in the sort. So what we need to do I think is two things:

1. Change the "Most Active" filter to be some filter on high-value radioactivity postings. Maybe it is possible to do the "top 10% or something", I'll need to verify.

2. Change the sorting to only [PostDateTime], [LastCommentDateTime] DESC

Groups and Communities are basically the same thing. We removed the Groups link since this was confusing and the UI wasn't great. We are going to be favoring tags over groups anyway. Use Communities and you'll get to the same content. Also with the new filtering on the home page there should be less hunting around for content. https://community.intersystems.com/connect/communities

On the editor we got complaints that the choice in editors was a waste of space. Next release is targeting new editor plus working to see how we get it with Markdown support.