October 12, 2009 at 7:46 am
Hello everyone,
I am part of the team behind SQL Server Central, and I am looking to gather some feedback on the site.
This can be anything from what you think works well on the site, what can be improved, and what you think shouldn't be there at all. If you could think of one way to improve the site, what would it be? What aspect of the site do you visit once you hit the homepage, or are you usually directed to something in particular from the newsletter?
It would be great to hear your point of view. We want to improve the site for the people that use it, and in order to shape it in a way that suits the users, we need to hear from them!
If you could take a couple of minutes to tell me your ideas/suggestions/criticisms then I would really appreciate it.
I look forward to hearing what you have to say!
October 12, 2009 at 8:27 am
Not convinced yet about this new ask.sqlservercentral functionality, I like the forums and the community angle. and the fact that you have to have an openid, if you could merge the existing ssc account between them it might be more appealing.
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October 12, 2009 at 8:49 am
I usually only visit the forums, so I would like it if there were direct URL links for "Posts since my last visit" and "My Posts". I find it a waste of time to have go to the forums and then select them from the menu.
October 12, 2009 at 9:37 am
There are two things that I'd really like to see:
First and most important would be an FAQ link in the left menu, either between Home and Articles or between QotD and Books. A place to "pin" discussions and articles on the things that come up all the darn time: Forum etiquette, "How to Post for Best Results", "Editorial Policy", and a few others that come up over and over and over. Jeff's article on Tally/Numbers tables, my articles on Audit Logs, a link to Gail's blog on Parameter Sniffing, would all be things that I have to reference many, many times. Steve could maintain the list of discussions and articles, if he's willing, and there should be a forum in there where people can suggest what to add to it.
Second, I'd really like an option to list the discussions that I've recently participated in, that have posts since I last viewed them. I can sort of achieve that through the subscription management, but not fully. I can't use the e-mail alerts to achieve this, because I can't get my personal e-mail at work, and that's the e-mail address I use for the site. Plus, I don't want an e-mail every time there's an update, I just want a list of the ones that have had new material. "The Thread" could drown an inbox all by itself, but a list would just have it once.
Those are the only feature requests I have at this time.
There are some bugs in the new code formatting, but those have been covered in good detail in the discussion on that subject. Other than that, I'm not aware of any bugs in the site.
Beyond that, I'm accustomed enough to the site that I'm probably not a good candidate for requesting usability changes. Habits for use are so ingrained I'm not even aware of them any more.
Edit: Another key one for the FAQ section would be "How Do I Start Out as a DBA", possibly including a list of recommended books, sites, etc. That subject comes up almost every week, and it's the same discussion every time.
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October 12, 2009 at 9:54 am
agree with some of that. I would like to see a recommended list of articles somewhere, that people could vote on, like a top 10,20,50 articles, as the same articles come up all the time. like what is in my signature for example and others like it.
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[highlight]Recommended Articles on How to help us help you and[/highlight]
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How to post Performance problems by Gail Shaw[/url]
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October 12, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I'd like to be able to bookmark specific posts/threads (not just articles).
Another subject would be description handling for a new post:
It kinda "disappear" once the thread is started. Suggestion: Either remove it or allow user to be able to show it with full content.
Other than that, I'm "used to it" 😀
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