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Fix the redesigned Power BI Ideas site

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Jeffrey Weir on 17 Oct 2020 02:01:48

There are so many design flaws in the Ideas Site redesign that I can't even recall them all. But here's the issues I can remember. I encourage others to leave additional issues in the comments

1. Clicking on an ideas link posted in say Twitter takes you to the idea, but you are then prompted to log in, and once you do, it takes you to the Home page and not to the idea you originally clicked on.

2. Many users have detailed that they can see Ideas on the mobile Ideas site but can’t vote for them even when logged in as there is no visible vote button on some phones.

3. In desktop, clicking Vote doesn't change the text to Voted, so you don't even know if it worked. (It makes a very subtle change to the icon, but it is too subtle to the point that it isn’t a discoverable visual cue at all.

4. The “Top Ideas” and “Hot Ideas” options serve up the exact same list.
When searching, clicking on one of the 'initial' search results then hitting the back button doesn't return you to the original search terms. You lose your search term and must reenter it.

5. "View More" only lets you see the titles of one or two of the results at a time.
The new design does nothing to address “Idea Forking”. Search doesn't show you the # of votes that each one of the forked ideas has. People keep adding the same idea over and over because Ideas does just a bad job of bubbling the most voted similar ideas to the top.

6. I personally cannot see the Ideas site in Chrome or Edge…it just doesn’t render for me. (It did for a time, but it was incredibly slow in Edge). Works fine in Firefox for me. Other users may be similarly impacted.

7. The policy change to only allowing those with organisational accounts to vote has led to what I term “Vote Deflation”: The most popular ideas were voted for when *anyone* can vote. But now, only a *select few* can vote. Meaning the positon of the top N pages of ideas is now effectively set in stone. Earlier popular ideas now have an unassailable lead.

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Péter Krisztián Varga on 02 Dec 2020 08:53:04

RE: Fix the redesigned Power BI Ideas site

You would think in 2020 things like this shouldn't cause a trouble for big companies :/. Very much yes please. The very best thing is how the 1st point applies, just as I wanted to upvote this idea, I had to do the same...login, get to the home page, then open the idea again to be able to vote on it...

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C EWL on 05 Nov 2020 14:15:08

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I can't vote for ideas either, clicking the vote button does nothing when logged in, please fix this!

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Jeffrey "Measure-Driven" Weir on 22 Oct 2020 21:53:48

RE: Fix the redesigned Power BI Ideas site

I too have the same issue as Alan Jones: If I vote for an item, the vote count temporarily goes up by one, but then the screen is redrawn and it shows the old vote count. Makes me think “My vote wasn’t’ counted”

Also, the Ideas site needs to let ideas creators amend their ideas to add further information or edit typos.

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Alan Jones on 20 Oct 2020 13:21:41

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I use Firefox and when i try and vote for an idea it does not seem to accept my vote. then I comeback and it looks like i voted.

And let me just say... going to an "idea" link and then signing in and being taken away from the idea is just bad form and really annoying.

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Alan Jones on 19 Oct 2020 22:23:23

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i tried voting for it but not sure it let me voting for the idea.

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Nicky van Vroenhoven on 19 Oct 2020 21:27:15

RE: Fix the redesigned Power BI Ideas site

I very much agree with points 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9.
Adding to #9 that I lost all my history of voting and Ideas I contributed to, after logging in with my organizational account, that I was already using btw!

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Ed Hansberry on 19 Oct 2020 17:12:50

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The visual cue that you've voted is way too subtle. It changes from a yellow "Vote" button to a gray "Vote" button, and the gray button is also the same thing you see if you cannot vote - i.e. not logged in. I know both situations are "you cannot vote" but:
* Can I not vote because I am not signed in?
* Can I not vote because I've already voted?

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Mary Garcia Charumilind on 19 Oct 2020 16:55:49

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Logged in. Can't vote.

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Darren Gosbell on 18 Oct 2020 11:15:16

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I even had trouble voting for this idea as I was not logged in, then when I logged in it re-directed me to the home page and I had to find this idea all over again!

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Jeffrey "Measure-Driven" Weir on 17 Oct 2020 21:07:30

RE: Fix the redesigned Power BI Ideas site

I have heard from another user that #8 is also an issue for him.

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