Is anybody else completely dissatisfied with this new forum?

Hi @corestar​ ,

I just added the Edit/Delete to our list of things to fix. You are right, if it's not an option (and it shouldn't be), then it shouldn't be visible to the customer.

Thanks for the feedback, I do appreciate it!

Mary T.

Community Manager

I've been complaining as much as anyone about the new forums, so I thought I'd mention something positive. It really seems like Intel engineers are taking a greater role in the forums. I don't recall that happening in the old ones. I posted a message about a bug in 18.1 (the bad news) and they actually seem to have reproduced it, acknowledged it, and promised to fix it in a future release (the good news). That never happened, at least to me, with Xilinx.

I'll be honest; I've been actively looking at going back to Xilinx. But after using Vivado for a while, it all came back to me at just how horrid Vivado is. And the Xilinx forums have vastly more traffic, but not vastly more useful answers. I really want to stay with Altera.

If Intel would make some sort of commitment that they are not abandoning MAX 10 and Cyclone V level chips and also recognize their SoC tools are garbage, it would make that decision a whole lot easier.

It's interesting that Intel has a team of people (not sure how large) working on these forums, but when it came to their FPGA SoC tools, they decided to use unmodified off the shelf tools from ARM and U-BOOT.

I got left behind when the forum moved, but now I can see and reply again. This means I have a lot of reading up to do and the first thi g I notice is having to unfold a lot of stuff. I understand why it is there, but at first glance it doesn't seem that handy. But i'll give it a go the coming days and see if I can start co tributing again. (This is also a test to see if I can really post replies.)

Hi, What do you mean you have to 'unfold a lot of stuff'? We're trying to improve the site so I'm interested in hearing any issues you may be experiencing so we can fix them. Thanks,

Mary T.

Community Manager

Well, if it's any consolation, the "modernized" Xilinx forums introduced a week or so ago makes the Altera forums look like the work of genius.

Well designed support forums has ceased to be a possible reason to move back to Xilinx.

HI, I agree wih Gleez. The previous forum was engaging, in the new Forum it feels like I am lost. Earlier I used to just all the questions posted wrt OpenCL everyday. Now I hardly check the forums, as it is not sub categorized properly.

Earlier Forums were more engaging and used to get response very fast. Now most of the questions go unanswered or get response weeks of posting the question.

Hope this will be taken positively by Intel, to improve there customer engagement.

A new version of the forum was promised to be unveiled in November/December time frame with many improvements including better categorization. I guess we will have to wait until the new version is released.

I hate this, i cant find anything, im in tears.

What was wrong with the old one?

Were users complaining?

Since users and helpers arent being paid, here by their good graces, WHY make it harder for them?

Good grief, I did not think Intel could make the forums worse, but I was wrong! Has anyone in the group that designs these forums ever actually used a forum? Do you do any testing at all?

When you go to the main FPGA forum, you can no longer right-click on a sub forum and open it in a new tab (tried FireFox and IE). This was a nice way to get back to the main forum page when done. Ok, I'll just have to hit back a few times. NOPE! When you hit back, it takes you to the main Intel community and not the FPGA forums.

You still have the "More Answers" and "View More" ....

I finally got access to the forum again since my access was broken after the update... Indeed not much has been improved in the promised update. The only step forward that I can see is that posts now fill the horizontal space. A couple notes:

• As corestar mentioned, "More Answers" and "View More" are back even though they were already removed in the previous version.
• Topics are still sorted by "Latest post" instead of "Most recent activity" by default. Furthermore, the time written under the post title still shows the time of first reply rather than the last.
• Subcategories were not introduced for the large FPGA sections.
• The editor is heavily borked. Backspace and Delete keys remove two characters at a time in most cases. Enter also adds two new lines. CTRL + Z (undo) acts erratically and removes too much text at a time. CTRL + Y (redo) does not even work. Submitting replies takes A LONG time. I had to write this reply in a text editor and copy/paste it into the forum since it is nearly impossible to write more than one line with the current editor.
• The "Search the community or Ask a Question" bar obstructs half of the screen when you reach the end of a topic.

These are likely not the only problems since I have used the forum for only a couple of minutes.