I HATE the new community changes!!!

[DellSC]

It is MUCH more difficult to navigate to what I'm looking for!

I have always used links to specific "communities" to find questions that need to be answered or blogs that I haven't seen. However, with today's changes, I end up on a "Browse Community Topics" generic page when I go to one of these. The specific ones I use are:

https://go.sap.com/community/topic/bi-platform.html
https://go.sap.com/community/topic/crystal-reports.html
https://go.sap.com/community/topic/crystal-reports-for-visual-studio.html

I DON'T use Notifications. I DON'T use my profile.

I have been answering a LOT of questions, especially in the Crystal communities. Doesn't look like I'll be doing much of that any more. 😞

[oliver · Accepted solution]

The content browsing experience on the old topic pages was pretty poor, showing very few items and not much question details. One of the goals of the redesign was to specifically address this aspect. Here is how I would use Q&A for your use case.

Access to Q&A is available from the top navigation.

Go to the new All tags page on Q&A, pick the tags you are interested in (e.g. SAP Crystal Reports, SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio, etc) and follow them. Afterwards they will be available as Your followed tags on the Q&A homepage and tag pages. With that, all the questions for your specific topics area available with a single click in Q&A.

Below is how it looks for me.

The new filters and sorting options make it in my opinion much easier to find what you are looking for, e.g. unanswered questions recently created. And there is no more need to switch between www.sap.com and answers.sap.com. And all the tags that you follow are available in the #following.

The same approach btw. works for blogs too.

Hope that helps.

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

However, there is no link I can find on the menu to the Q&A Homepage (I guess I'll have to save that one now) and I have to go someplace else entirely to find new blogs on those tags.

I've stuck with you guys through all of the changes in the last couple of years with promises of things getting better. This, however, is a step backward

[oliver · Accepted solution]

dell.stinnett-christy in the top navigation your mean? Under Community -> Question & Answers. Please give it a try. And yes, there is no combined Blogs & Q&A anymore but one could argue that these are different states (answering questions vs. informing yourself about news) and the separation might be a benefit.

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

That's exactly what I mean. Here's what I see on the Community menu:

[oliver · Accepted solution]

dell.stinnett-christy I've updated the answer with a description how to reach Q&A from the top nav