New year and I knew you want some new news about new forums! (That’s a lot of “new” 😀)
I’ll be the first to admit that there were some frustrations with our existing forum platform which didn’t help reinforce the strong community spirit that was always there on the forums over the years. For those that stuck with the forums, you have the gratitude of many of us here at Oracle. We took your feedback on board and took a fresh look at how to make the forums a good place to be, because providing a platform where people can easily share knowledge and help each other is critical to a good community.
One of the more common pieces of feedback we got was:
“Hey, if APEX is as cool as everyone says it is, why couldn’t you just build the forums in that?”
It’s pretty hard to argue with that logic…so we did!
It’s based on an internal app we use internally at Oracle for forum discussions, and so whilst it’s “battle hardened”, obviously the usage model and user experience (eg prioritising content, moderation etc) is slightly different in a fully public space, so we’ll be looking for any feedback you can have to make this a place you find it easy to interact with others and easily find solutions to your issues.
So please use the Feedback option to give us your thoughts, your ideas and your frustrations with the new forums.
It’s APEX, so it comes with all of the benefits of a low code environment to allow quick turnaround of enhancements and bug fixes. See you on the dev forum!
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