What Additional Topics, Groups or Categories would you like to see?
Please reply below and indicate if it is a Topic, Group or Category. If there are other features you think are missing please feel free add your thoughts.
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Ismath_MohideenEmployee
LM Cloud - this could be a topic (for those who are interesting in learning about LM cloud) or a user group (for those who want to expand their understanding).
You could add sub-categories to Product Discussions for LM Logs and LM APM.
The Categories and Featured Post widgets are not available for the side rail, but I added Categories to the feed and made it a little smaller under the Feed section. As far as right rail, what’s there is about all I can add, all I can do is reorder them. Moved the tag cloud up. As we talked about before, we are working to see if APIs will allow us to create an “Unread posts” list which would then go in the right rail...assuming we can make that work ;)
Baby steps ;)
Michael_DieterNeophyte
I think I would find it valuable if there was a way to allow me to “associate” with other members based on products, services, technologies, vendors, etc that I have in common with them. The idea being that this would allow me another way to target my community questions, answers, posts and other input and to organize or prioritize the input that I see from others.
Immediately this makes me think of a VMware group, a Cisco group, an AWS group as examples. That would probably work but it also might become a huge unmanageable mess.
Another idea would be to add a Profile section that would allow me to select pre-defined “tags” (there might/must be some way to automate their definition based on importing a value from the Modules or Integrations universes in the Portal UI?) For example, we use and monitor Juniper routers so maybe this would be a way for me to focus/constrain content & interactions with only other community members also using Juniper routers instead of all of those who use Cisco routers?
Maybe LM would find this interesting enough to explore it further and see if where it (or any of the possible iterations) goes would lead to something that could be implemented here in the Community.
You could add sub-categories to Product Discussions for LM Logs and LM APM.
I think this is the answer. Categories per product/product area. So:
- LM Pulse (stuff from LM)
- Welcome
- LM News
- Customer Stories ← btw, this grates. It’s salesey.
- Level Up ← temporal
- Product Hub
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- LM Logs
- LM APM
- Social (not work related)
- Professional Networking
- General Discussion
Tags would be good for use with specific industry technology areas. For example, if I post a question about SQL server monitoring, I’d do it in the IM category with the MS SQL tag. If I were going to post a feature request for fluentd, I’d post it under the LM Logs category with a flag for feature request. Feature request flagging could be done with a tag, but it would be better to have a dedicated toggle marking a post as a feature request, rather than just a simple tag. Better for integration with Product Board.
What things can you subscribe to? Categories obviously, but can you subscribe to tags? Can you subscribe to groups? Think about the interests people are going to have and what they’d want to subscribe to. I’d want to subscribe to IM and LM Logs, but not LM APM because we are not APM customers (gonna let that brownie cook a little longer, haha). Someone who is not an LM Logs customer and not an LM APM customer won’t care to see stuff in those product discussion categories.
- LM Pulse (stuff from LM)
Is there a way to do context sensitive layouts? Show one thing to users who are not logged in and another to users who are? Would be amazed if it could show different layouts based on rank (is it rank that indicates how active someone is in the community?)
Yes, but not layouts. You can only show different content based on user login state and permissions.
Looking really good. If it were just up to me, i’d be fine leaving that as an alternate home page because i can always bookmark it. Event calendar might be another good widget to put in the side bar. It’s small enough not to take up too much room and i imagine it vertically collapses into nothing if there’s no events.
