Is it just me or is this AMA forum super slow? Each page load is taking ~15 seconds.

Hello Dan Battagin 

We can certainly understand that pages loading slowly can be frustrating for you when you are wanting to keep up with all the amazing questions posted within your community for the AMA. We saw this issue and started troubleshooting in real time. It was certainly not our intent to slow you down while you shared your knowledge of the Excel platform with others.

Regarding why we use our own platform vs others like Reddit we would like to share with you our reasons for doing so :

• Customers can take advantage of the expertise across one community to get answers faster and more efficiently.
• Information is search-indexed, offering customers a way to easily identity solutions saving time and preventing unnecessary support tickets.
• Feedback channels help to identify barriers to adoption and feature requests providing our engineering teams with solid roadmap direction.
• The platform allows us to reach out to any and all customers giving feedback right in the platform.

We also want to make sure to state here that our intent is not and was never to replace Reddit AMA but rather to complement it. Both platforms have benefits that we still use and see the value in.

We make sure to thank anyone who gives feedback as we do indeed use feedback given to help make our platform better as the voice of the Tech Community members are truly our North Star when it comes to improving the Tech Community. We would like to encourage you and anyone else that does have feedback to post on our Community Ideas board here. This is monitored and maintained by our team with the feedback given to our developers. You can even see from the pages that quite a few of the ideas have been implemented or are in progress. We hope you can give us some feedback there as we would like to partner with you on improving the community.

We are going to go ahead and close this thread but encourage further discussion in the ideas board or by reaching out to us via email at TechCommunity@microsoft.com.

I'm starting this thread here because rather than just send the feedback directly to the good folks on the Excel team, I thought it better to include feedback that others may have as well (via replies).

I found this AMA to be much less engaging than previous AMAs (on reddit) for several reasons:

1. The performance of the site is terrible. And it's only getting worse as the AMA goes on. Everyone is seeing it.
2. The fact that in order to "read more" of a reply I have to navigate to a separate page/URL is ridiculous. There should just be some javascript that shows the rest of the reply. The page navigation is taking 30 seconds per page load. It's unusable. Howie's response is a good example of something I was interested in, but that took me 1 minute to navigate to, and return from:
   
   
   
   
3. There is so much whitespace in this forum, that it's impossible to quickly get a read of what's going on. I'm literally scrolling through pages and pages of wasted space just to see what questions were asked. There is no need for a line that identifies the user, then a bunch of whitespace, then a wide spaced block of text, and then more whitespace. A compact view would be much better for this type of real-time interaction (reddit does a good job of this)