The community team is pleased to release a new design for File Exchange review section. The new design has addressed major pain points we heard from File Exchange users and improves the overall experience. Major improvements include:
1. Support editing ratings/comments
Editing is probably the most popular feature request from File Exchange users. Now, you are able to edit your ratings/comments. Simply click the ‘Edit’ link below your content.
2. Support replying to a comment
In the old design, the only way for the file author to reply to a comment is to create a new comment, which is very hard to track. With the new design, the authors can directly reply to a comment and their post has a blue background making it easier to see. Due to differences between the old and new commenting structures, replies to comments couldn't be reliably inferred, so all comments added prior to 7/14 are at the same indentation level. Replies will be indented from now on.
3. Support rich formatting and attachments
Using the new rich text editor, you are able to choose bold/italic text, insert code or image, create lists, or attach files.
4. Introduce the ‘Discussions’ tab
There is a new ‘Discussions’ tab where community users have conversations with the author or other community members for Q&As or general discussions. The discussions section supports threaded discussions to facilitate the conversations. We separate Discussions with Reviews so that different types of content are not mixed together.
This is a major change for File Exchange and we look forward to hearing from you. Simply reply to this article if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.
13 Kommentare
Looks great, although I just responded to a question with a new entry rather than replying. Oh well.
The bigger issue I see, and perhaps I'm just missing it, is I don't see a search for the discussion section. I tried a browser based search (ctrl+f) but the discussion section is only partially loaded, which means that approach does not work.
This redesign is more than welcome. I've used it to answer a question ( m2uml, most recent entry of Discussions ) and want to make some comments
- It's a bit confusing that some tools (e.g. Hyperlink and Image) are not identical to those of Answers. Couldn't more of the code base be shared.
- My answer isn't in my Activity feed. How to quickly spot new entries? The @-feature of Answers might be useful.
- A help page is needed.
- Why limit the number of images to one? I used MsPaint to merge three images. I miss the Image dialog of Answers.
Has the ability to view files before download been removed as I am having a hard time finding it? Being able to review source code before downloading is important for security purposes, and also allows a user to gauge the quality and usability of an application.
messages to authors should be also added
Excuse the all caps, but THANK YOU. This is a HUGE improvement. Especially the ability to use the new editor (and therefore use proper bulleting, links, and code).
Now the only thing left on my list of feature requests is (versioned) dependencies, meaning you can specify a submission needs a specific other submission to work properly. That would drastically reduce the size of my submissions.
Thanks for the new design and important changes.