Some of you probably don’t remember it, but there was a group called 3 Amigos that went to SW hq for the same sort of deal, and I was there on the same sort of deal. Every 5-6 years they take in a group of rebels and mollify them with lunches and t-shirts and promises of a brighter tomorrow and how much they’re already doing for you. Of course now even those days are gone.
Anyway, it’s a good thing to have options available. And learning new stuff is fun.
Yep, RickB and I went as a result of ONE and TWO! We were very impressed with everyone we met, although Mark Johnson should never be allowed to interface with anybody outside the company. He even raised his voice at us in a meeting there. What a pr!ck.
And don’t at least 2 of the Amigos work for Dassault now? I know one is.
I must be a glutton for punishment. I keep going to the 3DSwamp to see if perhaps this time I can get somewhere. Nope. What a mess.
Therefore, I’d like to propose renaming it to CFS (Can’t Find Sh!t)
I don’t even remember their names. Was Sporkman one of them?
I thought it was Matt Lorono (sp?), he’s on the drawing UX side of SW. The other one I think is part of the overall SWUX. Since I can’t see old posts now, my old brain can’t be joggled around to remember.
Sporkman/Sporky might have been the other one.
The truly sad part is twofold.
This concept that they are trying to execute isn’t actually a terrible idea (hear me out!)
The idea of a community based “facebook” for their entire suite of connectable software isn’t a terrible idea on the surface. Some of the collaborative functionality looks quite interesting from a technical point of view. I’ve found a few neat things perusing around the swamp that I can appreciate the efforts that went into making it work.
The execution of that idea is fantastically bad.
This isn’t even an SWForum issue. The UI for what it actually IS and could be used for is tragically bad. Writing a Facebookesque web based platform is incredibly difficult. Google has tried and failed TWICE!
DSS failed in two main areas:
Rolling the SW Forum over feels like a case of throwing good money after bad. The platform is floundering/sinking, let’s force an existing community of users to use our bad platform. Unfortunately, they forgot we weren’t as “required” to use their site as they thought.
Since I’m a glutton for punishment, I posted an improvements thread at the swamp. Just a quick perusal shows only 5 new actual help questions and only 1 answer. My question…where did all the n00bs go? subreddit? The ether?
They aren’t here and they aren’t at the swamp…
I think it would sound like a speaker playing music in outer space.
I think I’m going to go light up some Solidworks Facebook groups with the link to here. I’m not in any SW groups on Facebook, but I’ll see if I can find something. That’s about as socially networked as I am, not much to do with reedit or snapchat or twitter.
mattpeneguy Hey, they asked for this, what did they expect?
Actually the subreddit for SWX is pretty active… even more active than the SWMP…
So if we could point some of the user to here… that will be fantastic 
Edit:
I will try to post something in the subreddit so that user are aware of this forum…
In case any1 had been wondering…
Want to hide the useless left and right community bar? You can do it, but only on mobile… LOL
Once again, this show that 3DSWYMP is a social media platform not a forum… <()>
Zhen-Wei Tee,
You’ve got it right it’s much closer to Reddit than a forum. Maybe 3DReddit?
Don’t insult Reddit like that. 
I just tried to give The Swamp a shot…again…painful…still.
I replied to a post and discovered I couldn’t add a CR for presentation and a pause for readability. Like this.
Instead it sends the message and then I had to rummage to edit my post, which consisted of “Hello,”.
So here’s another bit of Swamp idiocy…stream of conscience typing with no consideration for the reader or for a presentable reply..
Kevin
A trick Alin reminded me of when dealing with such a situation is to use Shift + Enter.
But, I too find it frustrating.
One good thing I noticed this weekend is the fact that SW executives started to answer users’ questions directly on the forum. The VP of R&D, in particular is very active. He is a member of the old SW guard and, for me, having him acknowledging the limitations and sharing with us the next steps in improving the functionality is a sign in the right direction.
In the same threads, members of the R&D team are naming the problems with no reservation and describe the difficulties in solving them. Pretty refreshing to see that. Better later than never.
Boycotting. If you need me this is where to find me. If they need me, this to where to find me.
Imagine if they allocated those resources to fixing bugs in SW?..Just sayin’…