Where are all the forums?

Question

Current forums will migrate to the new platform starting later this year. In the mean time, to visit them go to http://forums.microsoft.com/.

Answer 1

So Andrew, can I tell the VB Insiders when these are going to come online? The reason that I ask is that the 2.x forums at this point are unusable. To answer a single question a few minutes ago incurred 5 40+ second waits. I can't afford to donate that much time when the newsgroups are far, far more efficient--not as pretty, but work faster and are easier to deal with.

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William (Bill) Vaughn -- Mentor, Author, Dad and MVP

Answer 2

William Vaughn said:

So Andrew, can I tell the VB Insiders when these are going to come online? The reason that I ask is that the 2.x forums at this point are unusable. To answer a single question a few minutes ago incurred 5 40+ second waits. I can't afford to donate that much time when the newsgroups are far, far more efficient--not as pretty, but work faster and are easier to deal with.

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William (Bill) Vaughn -- Mentor, Author, Dad and MVP

Hi William-

We have released some fixes to the existing Forums 2.4 platform to deal with the slow performance and the unknown error messages.  We are posting updates to:  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3300328&SiteID=1  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3312165&SiteID=1 and http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3306074&SiteID=1.  There is information also being posted to the bug reporting forum at:  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=53&SiteID=1

Give them a try now and let us know if you continue to see problems.

Thanks!

Alicia

 

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Program Manager, Sustained Engineering Team

Answer 3

You guys did not answer the question. When will the forums be migrated? It is torture to not be able to post or reply on the 2.x forums. I am logged off when I attempt to do either. The only "fix" I have seen is tossing my cookies. I do that and it does work for a couple hours. But, then it goes back to logging me out. I would of course post my continuing issue over there but I can't. ;-)

The new forums look great and seem to work well. I can't wait to start using them.

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JoelP - SharePoint Developer and C# MCP

Answer 4

I just posted more details on our release going live next week, as well as the first forums that will be migrating to the new platform.

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Forums Product Planner, Andrew.Brenner at Microsoft.com