Issues with new MSDN blogs UI
Over the weekend, blogs.msdn.com was upgraded to the latest CommunityServer bits. The new platform has all kinds of nifty new features, no doubt, but it's got some major UI annoyances - especially around comments. For example:
- The comment entry form is not longer displayed automatically at the bottom of the comment list - you need to click "post a comment" first. A little annoying - one extra click - but not a huge deal.
- When you do click "post a comment" and the comment entry for is displayed, it doesn't display the other comments while you're typing yours. That is a big deal - it makes it incredible difficult to comment on someone else's comment rather than the original post, or maintain a conversation in the comments. Bad, bad, change.
- As a NewsGator user, I'm used to clicking in on the "Comments" link that NewsGator adds to the bottom of the page to view the comments people have made to a post. The problem is, that link now takes you do the "post a comment page", not the "show existing comments" page. I'm not sure if this is a problem with the link NewsGator is generating (I haven't tried it in other aggregators), but 90% of the time it's not where I want to go. Of course, resolving the first two things on this list would resolve this issue as well.
I hope these issues are addressable by the MS/CS teams, because they make it much harder to interact with the blogs.