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So I've been spending the past few days getting in and around the Lotus Developer Domain forums ... Mainly the Lotus Notes/Domino 6 & 7 forum. I usually just use the forums for the occasional sticking point here or there and I'm fresh out of ideas, but lately I've been spending some time posting, replying helping out a bit. I know I've gotten help there over the years so i figured maybe its time I give back a little bit there. But, the reason for my post is two things, one the forum is so difficult to use online. Some simple changes there would be so helpful. Now I'll admit, I've not really been in the v8 forum, and maybe they've made some changes to help, but things like having to choose from the menu on the left to back to the forum seems like a lazy design choice, rather than returning to either the previous post, or better yet back to the forum window. And the layout of the post response form is weak, with no definition for the response field width or height, leaving the default "can-hardly-type-three-words-and-see-them-box" for sometimes very lengthy posts. The speed is atrocious too. It seems with all the good things that Lotus is doing lately with Notes and Domino, that they should think about upgrading the experience the Designers/Administrators have interfacing with this resource. I think it could go a long way to help the great progress they are making with the Notes/Domino renaissance they are attempting. Anyway ... my two cents for the day. You know, for an extra 2 cents, I think they should release a wiki along with the forum as well ... I saw that idea on IdeaJam the other day ... it makes a lot of sense. What's your 2 cents? Should this be a "community" movement?
So I've been spending the past few days getting in and around the Lotus Developer Domain forums ... Mainly the Lotus Notes/Domino 6 & 7 forum. I usually just use the forums for the occasional sticking point here or there and I'm fresh out of ideas, but lately I've been spending some time posting, replying helping out a bit. I know I've gotten help there over the years so i figured maybe its time I give back a little bit there. But, the reason for my post is two things, one the forum is so difficult to use online. Some simple changes there would be so helpful. Now I'll admit, I've not really been in the v8 forum, and maybe they've made some changes to help, but things like having to choose from the menu on the left to back to the forum seems like a lazy design choice, rather than returning to either the previous post, or better yet back to the forum window. And the layout of the post response form is weak, with no definition for the response field width or height, leaving the default "can-hardly-type-three-words-and-see-them-box" for sometimes very lengthy posts. The speed is atrocious too. It seems with all the good things that Lotus is doing lately with Notes and Domino, that they should think about upgrading the experience the Designers/Administrators have interfacing with this resource. I think it could go a long way to help the great progress they are making with the Notes/Domino renaissance they are attempting. Anyway ... my two cents for the day. You know, for an extra 2 cents, I think they should release a wiki along with the forum as well ... I saw that idea on IdeaJam the other day ... it makes a lot of sense. What's your 2 cents? Should this be a "community" movement?
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