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danholme
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Jul 15, 2016

Welcome to the SharePoint group in the Office 365 Public Network

On behalf of the entire SharePoint team, I'd like to welcome you to the new Office 365 Network. We are excited to engage with you, our community, in this rich, new, open and visible experience.  Best wishes!

 

Dan Holme

Director, Product Marketing, SharePoint

  • Danny Engelman's avatar
    Danny Engelman
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 25, 2016

    I smoke weird cigars and am not a Designer,

    But the person who designed this Forum sure has an interesting take on UX.

    After only 2 hours here on network.office.com my mousewheel got so hot I had to leave it for an hour.

     

    So I smoked yet another of those weird cigars....

     

    Then spend some hours in Stylish (or use StyleBot or any other Browser plugin that can paste CSS in any page)

     

    My CSS is Public Domain: 

     

    https://userstyles.org/styles/130655/microsoft-network-office-com-css-enhancements

     

    It reduces font-sizes, alternates background colors, removes UX elements I really don't care about,

    and it highlights, with my own applied gold/silver badges, the persons that seem interesting.

    All in CSS only

     

    So my screen now looks like:

     

     

    disclaimer: no animals were killed or jQuery was used in the production of this code

     

     

    aNow I am ready for those thousands of questions here in this Forum

     

    --

    Danny Engelman

    On my way to Ignite: E-magination Ride 16

    • Urs Wedershoven's avatar
      Urs Wedershoven
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 27, 2016

      I'd say this was designed solely with smartphones and small tablets in mind. There the UI (even the one for not logged in users) makes sense.

    • RobOK's avatar
      RobOK
      Bronze Contributor
      Jul 26, 2016

      Thank You!!  This is a big improvement!

       

      Is there any way you can reduce the height of the various blue and white bars at the top of the page?

      • MichaelHolste's avatar
        MichaelHolste
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        Jul 27, 2016
        Hey Rob, the blue and white bars are standard Microsoft branding, that wasn't a custom design and I doubt we are able to change it.
  • BenStegink's avatar
    BenStegink
    Steel Contributor
    Jul 25, 2016

    Thanks danholme.  Any way we could get a place in here for Office on the Mac? We had a group on Yammer with almost 2100 of us and had a lot of confersations around Mac specific Office questions and issues.

     

    Thanks,

    Ben

  • techchirag's avatar
    techchirag
    MVP
    Jul 22, 2016

    Thanks danholme - its the best of Yammer and Technet Forums and growing capability! My favourite feature is "Accept as Solution" in conversations.

     

    Keep up the good work!

    -Chirag Patel @techChirag

  • Serge de Klerk's avatar
    Serge de Klerk
    Brass Contributor
    Jul 19, 2016

    I'm intrigued to see how this will work out. I'm still very confused as to why all of the sudden we move away from Yammer and what will happen to the private networks that we've built in Yammer for our company and our customers.

     

    Happy posting people! :)

  • Tobias Zimmergren's avatar
    Tobias Zimmergren
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 18, 2016

    Thank you danholme,

     

    I'm looking forward to exploring what this new community has to offer, and would be thrilled to see much engagement between MS and the community on various topics here. I really hope it doesn't end up as a billboard for people's blog posts ;-) 

     

    Cheers,

    Tobias.

  • darrellaas's avatar
    darrellaas
    MVP
    Jul 18, 2016

    Perhaps it's by chance that you posted the welcome to the SharePoint group on a Saturday, as a salute to all the SharePoint Saturdays out there. That is, it appears to me as a Saturday post ;)

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