DevCentral official reLaunch and NEW SignUp
Hello Again - We have tested and pushed a fix for the widespread SAML assertion error. Going forward we expect users should successfully login and engage with the community as designed. While we recognize this was a less than desirable launch experience, please know that we absolutely feel your pain. Your feedback is heard loud and clear and, by all means keep it coming. We still need to capture your current experience so we can document feature enhancements going forward. We *know* that the DevCentral community is what it is because of awesome members like you. We value your contributions above all, and we continue to work to bring you the community experience you expect and deserve. ---- BACK AGAIN with another important update. DevCentral is currently experiencing a login issue preventing several users from logging in. You will see this as a SAML assertion failure. A permanent fix is currently being worked as our highest priority.
IMPORTANT UPDATE (does not apply to F5 Employees) The first time community members access DevCentral (after May 15th) you must choose SIGN UP for a *new* account on our *new* platform. You will provide *new* authentication credentials and THEN, in the second step you will have the opportunity to provide your previous credentials in order to MERGE available previous content. The merge will include your previous DisplayName. Going forward, DisplayName must be unique. If you have problems beyond this process please contact us with as much detail as you can and we'll help you out. Thank you for your continued patience.
Today DevCentral has reached the end of an intense couple of months - but this is really just another beginning. Allow me to paint a picture...in your mind
- In late 2018 we were like, --Somewherrrrre over the rainbow….
- Then, a couple weeks ago, things got real and we were like,--Tornado!
- But then we nailed it; and we were like, --Pretty colors. and --Munchkins are cute!
- Suddenly, a huge puff of "read-only" smoke, and we were like, --A Witch!
- And THEN, with the support of some key people on our team and in the community, we were like --There's no place like home.
So, we stayed that way for this past week, put in some more hours, and gathered our courage for today.
Today we are happy to launch YOUR new community website.
Take a look around and give us your feedback. We have our eyes on the horizon and our ears directed squarely at you.
Some last minute housekeeping...
- Starting today you will need to SIGN UP for a new account on our new platform. Don't worry, the SIGN UP process will provide you the opportunity to merge your previous DevCentral account and all of your DevPoints into this new account.
- A guiding principle was to make sure we preserve historical content, your content, and we took extra efforts to bring as much of that forward as we could.
Thank you for being part of our community!
Published May 15, 2019
Version 1.0
DominicNimbostratus
The site look great but you seem to have disregarded/ broken some common functionality:
The new login form does not seem to work with password managers, can you please add the password field back to the first part of the login form so auto type can be used.
Search result link do not behave link normal hyperlinks, for instance right clicking to open a context menu no longer seems to work, how can I open a result in a new tab so as I can review several results for relevance?
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A week has passed and DevCentral search is still barely usable. The search bar duissapears every time it looses focus, often half the query is typed and the you try to copy and paste the rest and it dissapears, can be worked aroud but painful mone the less. A bigges problem is that search result still do produce proper hyperlinks so no open in new tab ect that one expects from links. Is this planeed to be fixed?
Will something be done about the login prompt breaking passwordmanager autotype?
Half the time the best part of an acticle is in the comments but you hide it behind 'More Comments' links, will this be changed to actully show all comments in full by default?
So many broken links from in comments forcing the use of the not so usefull search.
spalandeNacreous
Can we please have below pointers on new login page itself. Right now it doesn't tell how to login and we keep trying login with old account email ID and password.
- Starting today you will need to SIGN UP for a new account on our new platform. Don't worry, the SIGN UP process will provide you the opportunity to merge your previous DevCentral account and all of your DevPoints into this new account.
- A guiding principle was to make sure we preserve historical content, your content, and we took extra efforts to bring as much of that forward as we could.
AdamAm I alone in losing my bookmarks after account merge? Also all the links from google, articles and my local bookmarks are failing to find the pages.
JakuubThis is tragic. I cannot find anything on devcentral. :-(
Venkateshsame here :( Please fix it asap.
- Venkatesh
Getting 404 for all the links.
- adam88
Cirrus
I'm having lots of issues with the new DevCentral. Aside from the font that's making it harder to read - I have lost all of the articles and questions that I have starred previously and have no idea how to get them back. Aside from that, all of the links from Google searches now lead me to a 404 page, which is a very bad move - Google is a huge help when searching for nuanced topics and it's tragic that this leads me nowhere, we've lost a huge resource. And then the other thing is I couldn't even find my own questions that I posted on the previous DevCentral - I need one of those questions now but I'm having such a hard time finding it here.
The best way to do a major migration such as this is always to maintain the old one in the background. You could have done a simple URI redirect for https://devcentral.f5.com to go to https://devcentral.f5.com/v2/... where the new site will reside with an option to switchover to the old version to get to content while people get used to the new site. Then gradually decomm the old site.
- Hille
For the moment I'm not happy with the new DevCentral, I can't find a thing and I'm getting a lot of 404 pages.
Can you please revert to the old DevCentral.
Also if you search, you cannot open a Link in a new page-tab.
For the moment, I'm not happy.
- LiefZimmerman
Admin
Wanted to jump in here quickly and let you all know - we are listening.
We have folks looking into your concerns; thanks for your patience.
- tganzer
Employee
Are all the previous google search results invalid now? Hearing from customers they are getting all 404 errors for DC content.
