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Transition Feedback Thread
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Blu,
Edit your profile and the option to turn off e-mail displayed to others will appear. I have escalated this to the devs. You're also seeing certain things as you have moderator permissions, which normal users won't see. Will verify once I can get on my member account.
Notification settings - there are certain ones that are out of the box on. I'll work with the team to minimize the amount.
Swirly - came over live huge, was not this bad in the pre-production (literally a minute before hand). They're working on design issues later today.
Slowness - it's everyone. Between rush of new users and indexing. It seems to be getting better the more I'm using the site though.
Best,
Jim Finch
Community Experience Manager
System Admin
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@Jim Finch-Oracle Any chance somebody wrote an "How-to" guide to transition users of the old platform to the new one?
I now spent 30 minutes in the new one, I found about 20% of what I was used to look at and do in the old platform.
In all honesty I'm at the point where I either get this 20% up to 80% in the coming hour, or I reduce the 20% to 0 and get out of the OTN/ODC forums (or whatever is the new name). I believe that giving time in supporting the community is already worth enough without me wasting days trying to find where something is or how to do things in a new platform. Oracle has free support and knowledge from the forum users, I expect Oracle to do an effort to keep those users...
While being open to do an effort to adapt, I expect something to transition me from the old to the new system. That's how I generally do migrations. Not just taking down the old system, point the URL to the new one and "good luck everybody".
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Reporting. Can duplicate the issue.
If you have e-mail notifications on for messages, a work around until we get it fixed is that the links from e-mail to those messages are working (and how I'm accessing).
Best,
Jim
Best,
Jim Finch
Community Experience Manager
System Admin
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Noted, and I'll have a guide up later today. For now basic how to's are up here: https://community.oracle.com/tech/welcome/kb
Please don't give up on us yet, we're running into launch issues and working on fixing them.
Best,
Jim Finch
Community Experience Manager
System Admin
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Hi Scott,
Yes, your badge list will fill in as the site assigns the things you've earned from your old membership on the old platform.
The above link goes to our gamification guide, with details on level conversion, power ups, etc.
Best,
Jim Finch
Community Experience Manager
System Admin
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I found this in MOSC, not sure it's valid for the "public" community as well, but there are chances....
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While the levels are valid, MOSC uses different ways to earn points for their gamification than all the other nodes.
Please use the link I posted above to go to our knowledge base for the correct information for Tech - Topliners - Partners, etc.
Best,
Jim Finch
Community Experience Manager
System Admin
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Early feedback was probably helped by my +8 timezone ;p
There is a helpful twitter discussion here where I found how to snippet multiple lines of code, but it seems a little click-deep for a technical forum.
So far general entry in the message box seems cleaner, more modern.
And it doesn't put an emoji for this common syntax reference, thank you.
:P1_ITEMMobile rendering also appears to need work.
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Thanks Scott, they're rolling out updates everywhere right now. Mobile got the first one about an hour ago.
Best,
Jim
Best,
Jim Finch
Community Experience Manager
System Admin
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From our knowledge base (which is linked from the Resources tab up top):
https://community.oracle.com/tech/apps-infra/kb/articles/14-use-markdown-macros
Best,
Jim Finch
Community Experience Manager
System Admin
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Where are you when you see this? At the top I only get
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So, for those people struggling to find where things are, one of the key things to note is that, by default, you seem to land in the "Welcome Community" (where this thread is).
If you click on the planet (next to the magnifying glass) at the top of the page, you'll see that the Welcome Community is now distinctly different to the Groundbreakers community (and there's also the Applications and Infrastructure community).
So, when looking for the place to post, you first need to make sure you've gone to the correct community.
So, click on e.g. Groundbreakers Developer Community inside that planet, to get yourself in there and THEN click on the "categories" in the menu bar.
There are just a few categories and things have been "simplified" (though still not sure it's completely logical myself :D)
If you're looking for something like Apex, then that's a development tool, so, ignoring the category heading of "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure" (because not everyone is in the cloud LOL!) click on "Application Development Software" and then the page you get will have Apex listed.
If you're looking for SQL and PL/SQL, then that's part of data processing, so, again ignoring the category heading, click on the category of "Big Data". In there we have data related things such as SQL and PL/SQL (the SQL space really needs merging or removing IMHO) It also has SQL Developer and SQL Developer Data Modeller which, personally I would have had as development tools...
What about General Database Discussions, which used to be a neighbour of SQL and PL/SQL....? Well that's in the Applications and Infrastructure community now... category... "On Premise Infrastructure" - "Database Software", and sits alongside Database Security, Data Warehousing, Performance and Availability etc.
I think there's some logic to it... but we could do with a community tree diagram, just to help us get used to where things are.
Certainly though, once you get your head around the initial split communities via the planet icon... you're half way to finding things. ;)
Edit: I see the spaces are being moved about a bit... the above may not necessarily hold true. :D
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The swirly background is awful - makes reading very hard. Also it's not very intuitive. I just about managed to find (what was) the old SQL forum, but I've no idea how to get to the other bookmarks I had.
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Me too - it's terribly difficult to navigate. No idea where to find anything and am halfway to just giving up.
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I was looking for the APEX forum. I can get to APEX but no posts at the highest level - just a sub-category of 'Packaged Applications'.
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Hi John,
It wasn't like this in pre-production so the devs are tracking it down now. No ETA but it's a a bug and being fixed.
Best,
Jim Finch
Community Experience Manager
System Admin
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They just need to apply the attribute size=10% to the background... that's should do it. Or just make it plain white or grey or something. Too busy with patterns. :D
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I was looking for the APEX forum. I can get to APEX but no posts at the highest level - just a sub-category of 'Packaged Applications'.
Same here, I can't find any Apex posts.
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Good news - I have unearthed some APEX post by clicking on content tagged 'APEX'
Bad news - However, this appears to be limited to a single screen with no pagination.
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Like many other I can't find any Apex posts, except for the Packaged Application sub-category.
Another thing is that I don't see an option to format text (bold, italic, font etc.)
I like the new Quote, as you can hide most of the quoted text. Quotes used to bloat posts in the previous forum.
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It's actually a back end issue with the graphic itself. Just talked to them. :)
Best,
Jim Finch
Community Experience Manager
System Admin
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When you start typing, highlight the text you want to bold then the options pop up. More about that here: https://community.oracle.com/tech/apps-infra/kb/articles/12-format-text
Best,
Jim Finch
Community Experience Manager
System Admin
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Could you please try this for me?
All the old messages should now be under "Apex Discussions"
Best,
Jim Finch
Community Experience Manager
System Admin
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Thanks Jim, I can see the posts now.
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NP, it's a quick fix.
Best,
Jim Finch
Community Experience Manager
System Admin
