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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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Gary Thomann on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:53

RE: Fix the redesigned Power BI Ideas site

Power BI Ideas site search/sort functionality...

Cascade Vote these ideas to empower your voice!

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/31601548-fix-power-bi-ideas-site 
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/31540426-merge-ideas-on-ideas-forum 
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/31601548-fix-power-bi-ideas-site
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19624357-power-bi-ideas-search-filtering 
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19166779--power-bi-ideas-site-improvement-search-functio
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/17285696-sort-ideas-by-votes
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/14471364-meta-more-date-stamps-on-the-ideas-forum
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/31526554-use-power-bi-to-report-on-this-power-bi-ideas-site

'The noisy wheel ...' :) 

Maybe m$ should buy out stackoverflow ... then again no ...
 

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