Is anybody else completely dissatisfied with this new forum?

I completely agree with corestar. This used to be an active, robust, vibrant forum. Under Intel it is dying an agonizing slow death.

The user interface and usability of this forum is terrible. I dread (trying) to come back here to see what is new or updated. It just takes so much longer than before it is most times hardly worth the effort.

Intel has accomplished Xilinx's wildest dream of being able to kill Altera as a viable competitor.

Hi,

I'm sorry to hear about your experience! Can you let me know what is clunky, what's hard to navigate? We want to make this a good environment for people to easily ask questions, get answers, so if you have improvement requests, please let me know!

You can also submit issues here:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/forms/corporate/webmaster-contact-us.html

Thanks,

Mary T.

Community Manager

Hi,

Thanks for all your feedback. If you're still experiencing slowness of pages loading (@mfro​ ?), please let me know what the browser is that you're using so we can replicate the issue and find a fix for you.

As for the narrow columns, we will work on that. Right now their narrow because the Leaderboard is on the right side but we'll move that to the bottom. It will allow more column width then. Give me time, not sure when we'll have this ready to push to production.

I'll submit the 'new since my last visit' request to our team to address. What other items can I look into?

@DBay​ , sorry you couldn't find this forum earlier. In addition to the Altera Forums, we integrated all of Altera into Intel and had to train many Intel folks on FPGAs. Sorry they weren't able to point you in the right direction at first but we should have that addressed now.

And issues with the Search is still in process. I apologize for the problems and appreciate your detailed feedback. Thank you!

Mary T.

Community Manager

Hi All,

My name is Hazlina and I am a Senior Manager for an applications engineering team within Intel. Just to let everyone knows, as Mary alluded above, we are considering all the feedback and inputs received for enhancement. Many of the feedback we received so far will be addressed in the next release. Mary will provide more updates on this as she deem appropriate but I would like to remind everyone to NOT get discouraged with the limitation/issues on the current features/functionalities . This is a new platform for us and everyone here, so we do expects some hiccups but rest assured that we are working to improve it! Please do feedback if you find anything NEW bugs/limitation that needs to be taken into account that is not already mentioned/covered by the previous comments. Thank you for everyone's feedback on this.

Thanks.

-Hazlina

One thing I've noticed that I think is new (like I said, a list would help) is that when you insert code it does not add a scroll bar if it is beyond a certain length.

@corestar​ Thank you for your feedback. ​I will provide your inputs "to add a scroll bar when code is inserted" to the developer team for consideration. For the new thread suggestion on "Planned improvement to forums" this sounds like a good idea. But I will need the forums community manager @MaryT_Intel​ to assess this and decide the next steps since she will be the right person to create this thread and supplement the required information if she deemed appropriate.

@schendel_nsf​ Yes, we have made some improvements on the page loading issue or slowness which what you may have noticed. In terms of the improvements time-line, @MaryT_Intel​ is a better fit to answer this. I will defer this to Mary.

@JOHI​ Thank you for the feedback. We are also looking at search engine improvements. We have received several feedback from other users on this and the web team is working to improve this. Thank you for letting us know on the feedback about the older Altera forums platform vs. this new one. We are looking to learn as we go on how to can improve this new forums platform to provide you a better forums experience compared to the older forums platform. Please continue to work with us on this.

@mfro​ I agree that there were a few functionalities that was missed during our testing. Again, we are learning and looking to improve the forums platform. I will channel your feedback to the forums team for improvements consideration.

@MV​ Can you please elaborate more on your login issue? When you see the issue, does the password reset function works? We have another user reporting similar issue so I want to know if the symptoms are matched between your observation and the other user.

Hello all,

This is Mary, the Community Manager. Thank you for your inputs, we have been working to address them! We will have a new release by the end of November or December with the improvements, some others may come later. Here is a list off the top of my head that we're working on:

• Show More - remove this. We agree!
• Need to fix all the questions/responses on the left side of the screen and the right side is empty. This should be fixed in the next release.
• Ability to see latest activity across all forums and make it sticky, it should not default back to Top Contents.
• Slowness - if you're still experiencing this, email me at intel.community@intel.com .
• Need date/time stamp
• Ability to jump to latest reply, back to top
• Improve Search
• Broken links - this is a tough one as the Altera site content was moved to Intel but redefined.

We're adding the latest requests to our list as well. If you have more, send them to me directly at intel.community@intel.com. Thank you!

Mary T.

I have 4 frozen chrome windows just trying to read this post.

I'm amazed I am able to post a response.

Hello RMees, I'm sorry to hear of this issue. Let's connect offline to solve this problem. A couple of us tried to replicate the issue and don't experience it so we will have our lead developer work with you on it. I'll send a separate note to you. Thanks,

Mary T.

Community Manager