can't RSS feedback page

Thomas,

You might want to try Google Reader for your RSS feeeds. It may offer better structure and you won't need to store them on your disk. Still this is not as good as NNTP.

- Roy

Not sure what you mean with "applications" and "silos" - to me the old site was crystal clear. At least by NNTP.

( And so far I am quite confused clicking around the new site.  A main cause  for this is, I guess,  the fragmentation in many pages when everything is cut to a new page after 10 rows. As in http://communities.bentley.com/members/Thomas-Voghera/favorites/default.aspx - where the left side is cut and the right panel uses a bit of scrolling - which I don't !! mind -as it is pretty obvious what is below. This is made worse by the typography with huge spaces betwee nthe lines. So my suggestion is you make "longer" pages and much more dense typography.)

"Community" is an utterly vague term for me.

Is what you are saying that earlier there was an entry point of FORUMS and under that many dozens of them for products, site feedback etc, then there where WIKIS and under that wikis for products, feedback etc, then BLOGs with same substructure. And now you want to shift that 90 degrees and have the entry points as v8i, STAAD etc with sub categories forum, blogs, wikis etc. If so i think that is probably a good thing. For fixed content.

But my interest is in the changes. New posts, changes to wikis, blogs, TNs etc. Firstly I only want to see the changes, and mark them "read". But when sensing something interesting with easy "links" to the full blog, wiki or thread/topic. Essentially to harvest the filtered changes not "read" into a stream presented on pages as long as it takes and having each item disappear when read. Sorted by "community" is fine with me as long as they are densly packed.

Trying to collect "favorites" and then click more favorites and then v8i and then forums  and a topic and back and next page and wait 5 seconds and click and wait 3 seconds and click back and wait 3 seconds for each page to update is out of the question! And I can't hide what I've read.

So presently I try to RSS everything I see into Outlook and delete messages when read. Not a good solution, but long live the link at the bottom of each "mail". Later I'll try to see if Opera can handle this "feed".

http://communities.bentley.com/products/default.aspx

Now we are talking! why not have checkboxes to the left of each row for Forum, wiki, blogs for listing at "My feeds".

Perhaps there is such a thing on the site allready? - but I can't find it.

Unknown said:

I really like a page that lists ALL forums from where I can pick the ones I am interested in.

As mentioned in various places, the point of this site is not to host separate applications that do not connect with each other in context. It is to host communities first and then the applications that support the community (e.g. forum(s), blog(s), wiki(s), etc.) The separate communities on the "old" site was quite confusing -- that point was brought up a number of times through feedback. Further, the fact that there were separate applications previously resulted in silos of information within the site, which was better than what existed before then, but that still was not nearly as organized and easy to find, navigate, etc. as it is now.

Unknown said:

PS - there is a button for answering YES, that answered my question. But no NO ?

NO is the implied default.

hm - seems posts are sorted by local time of the individual post. My replay appears above Phils?

I am sorry, I am lost in all this. NNTP seemed a lot  simpler.

I really like a page that lists ALL forums from where I can pick the ones I am interested in.

PS - there is a button for answering YES, that answered my question. But no NO ?