A Letter to the DevCentral Community

Hello  ,

So, what's up all these words about if you're not gonna do anything?

It's like politics - speak one and act in other way?

So, what for your excuses than, if they don't cost a thing?

>A long-standing request from the community has been to consolidate credentials across F5 properties. 

Just extend old DC with SAML auth and use credentials from SF

>The new platform supports not only Q&A, but also article and message comments as well.

What was the problem with extending old platform with same functionality?

>This adds a whole new level of engagement capabilities to the site, and validates the message that DevCentral belongs to the community, and we want to hear your voice.

Engineers DO NOT NEED engagement. That is the problem. You need. Not us. YOU.

Maan, most of us are engaged already. Someone even married.

>DevCentral belongs to the community, and we want to hear your voice.

Just put it back. And don't ever touch.

>The community deserved a better site and we weren’t going to be able to build that on-top of the old one.

Should be read as:"I've heard there is magical wand called SF somewhere out there. Let's check it out"

Destroy tech community is an easy thing. It's hard to get respect back.

And you don't respect customers. Us.

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From your LI (fancy site! new abilities):"I also develop and maintain relationships with other teams and professionals at F5 which includes Product Management, Product Development, Field System Engineers, and Partners".

ROFL. This migration. Have you heard cons voices? Have you did it?

Another week passed. Ok, just one.

1. bold font on main page. UI for browsers, no? Anything? Just remove it.
2. google search fail. it is still. google search string "site:devcentral.f5.com/questions/" == About 19,300 results (0.23 seconds) NEW "site:devcentral.f5.com/s/question/" == About 6,080 results (0.14 seconds) 19300 old results VS 6080 new. Anthony, personally you've stolen from community these 19300 posts for one week now.
3. forced sign in. it's gone (crazy thing, haven't you creativity enough just not to do it so harsh - force users to update their logins in a new system?) Disrespect to people - too bad for you.
4. page titles fail. it's better now. yes.
5. bookmarks fail. yeah, make some changes on client's side (what else should we do?), rebookmark it.  , it's a HUGE DISRESPECT to what people do here. And to what they did.
6. "Show more" plague all over the site. JUST REMOVE IT. Are you payed for every click on this site? I bet you are! Don't be so greedy, heal us from "Show More". Please.
7. Search bar is dizzy. Every sudden move and you're lost search typing. Is this a test? A men can't be calm on this site - thus most of the searches are failed when typing.
8. right-click fail. It's a clickgate! -=You're clicking it wrong=-
9. THIS WEBSITE IS LAGGY. It literally takes up to 15 second to render it's content. Because of heavy ajax from SalesForce. Is that engagement, you've been talking about? Just make it more static (oh, you can't because you don't control source code logic? Well, you was exactly your choice - to control less). No one likes SF when it comes to their personal user experience matter. JUST PUT BACK OLD SITE, please?

Now goes tha winners:

1. site migration failed. content is messed up. consider https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Hmo8lK-APIEJ:https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/configuring-apm-client-side-ntlm-authentication and on brand new website https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/configuring-apm-client-side-ntlm-authentication comments are messed in time. It's a fail, Anthony, it's a fail.
2. site migration failed. some questions are lost their answers. consider https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QNdBPXrW0VwJ:https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/ntlm-authentication-in-apm-58716 and https://devcentral.f5.com/s/feed/0D51T00006i7iG2SAI there are NO subcomments/answers AT ALL.

You see? Migration itself failed. I mean not all these marketing bells and whistles. You've lost the data. You've lost the content.

To throw the baby out with the bath water - good time to tell it.

So, you Anthony are communicating with engineers and no one reviewed integrity of migrated data? Are those engineers for real or you've been interacting with them in a real world?

"Lost integrity while migrating"

"Still no migration back?"

"How come, Director of Community Development for F5?"

We've made a migration (of your-belonging content) without your consent. And with a huge negligence and disrespect to the community.

Why? Because f you, that's why!

p.s. the most hilarious part. director of whatever community is telling to that community that community is wrong and "you just don't understand".