Top Ten List Live

SOLIDWORKS SW General
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They look like they’re throwing darts blind folded hoping to land a bullseye. Sometimes it feels like they don’t even know how to operate the own thing they created and that they are too at the mercy of that awful design.

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I’ll give it a wild guess and say that every user that was transfered from the previous forum is experiencing these issues and every new user is not. Seems everything is linked to that but nobody on their end seems to adress it.

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If I expected anything from DSS other than an absolute train wreck, I would be frustrated. As it is, they have met my expectations.

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Probably because the platform requires an account to read anything whereas the blog is accessible to anyone.

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By “accessible to anyone”, do you mean like the forum used to be? The forum that functioned.

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Poor Brad. He seems nice.

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Pretty sure that’s intentional. Those “old forum” people are a cantankerous bunch that only complain about things that don’t work.

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Have put a link to this post in my conversation with the admins about these problems. It looks they are aware now there are more customers involved. :face_with_spiral_eyes:

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I break that pattern I’m afraid, my account over there pre-dates the transfer.

How many of the strugglers engaged with last year’s TTL? I’m wondering if permissions for that Community were carried over or something.

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Maybe it’s just us and our accounts have been blacklisted. ;;

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I will reiterate my opinion that the top ten list is nothing but a marketing exercise to create the illusion that they give a damn about your opinion. Does anything else this company does make you think they give a damn about the people sending them money? David makes some very reasonable suggestions. But the whole point is user involvement, not getting your ideas. Forcing you to enter the same ideas every year, to duplicate entries already in the system (that had to be duplicated because they decided to ignore the SR/ER/SPR system that had been in place for decades.) If participating makes you feel better, have at it. All you are doing is generating clicks for their platform, which is a win in their book. If they cared, would they have the TTL open for a month before posting about it? If they cared, would the TTL be such a disaster that most people can’t even access it?

I know, I know, some of you have actually had your suggestions implemented. My thoughts:

  1. That was back when the company really did want input from their users.
  2. Your company has enough seats that your VAR actually cares that your opinion is heard
  3. They were going to make that change whether it was on the TTL or not.
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The TTL should be a perpetual list…oh wait…perpetual is a dirty word now when it comes to software. <()>

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In their defense, The system seems to be working this morning.

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Ah, the perpetual TTL list. Also known as the Enhancement Requests community. Which would be too complicated to just use as the TTL.

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When it was on the old forum the TTL was VERY easy to access and VERY popular. Since moving to the 3DSWAMP it is not worth the trouble! Early on I think the TTL was actually listened to, but now that the software has matured there isn’t as much low-hanging fruit and your third point is most likely what is happening.

Actually, the whole ONE and TWO movement was the last time the TTL had an impact that wasn’t already in the works, IMHO. By itself it forced a change on how the TTL even counted an idea. They were so embarrassed by ONE and TWO from the 2017 TTL that they wouldn’t let those kinds of Top Ten ideas even make it on the list.

For those that don’t know what I’m talking about:
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If I recall correctly #2 had almost twice as many votes as #3! It was a very loud wake-up call we were making. Alas, some of those people that heard that call are no longer there or have been cowed by DSS.

And AlexLachance started a more recent version: https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/home?content=swym:prd:R1132100503382:qnaquestion:cKQ1C43_TMe441pTmRAHKw

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The endless spiraling of the Platform towards a dump sent the topic down into the anals. It stayed visible for less then a day and the only people who seemed to get any sort of “notification” of activity on it were people part of my “network” on the platform.

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FIFY

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I logged in and commented on Alex’s thread and a couple others and now it appears my account has been lost.
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Dissent will not be tolerated I guess. Since they modeled SWYMp after Facebook I wonder if I’m in jail now.

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If anyone’s looking to make the “Top Ten” an actual useful tool for both users and developper, please go and vote on these.

Give us a Vote Down Button
https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/community/swym:prd:R1132100503382:community:NuvjIL0QTDKJKkb2P1AjjA?content=swym:prd:R1132100503382:idea:EUTbojicRhqaF7XWyytQ_g

Use the SolidWorks Enhancement Ideas Community for the purpose of the Top10
https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/community/swym:prd:R1132100503382:community:NuvjIL0QTDKJKkb2P1AjjA?content=swym:prd:R1132100503382:idea:EoHO15EsReS-P2ObDN15kg

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OMG don’t do the down vote.
That’s gives even greater power to the ‘block voters’ that come in. They obviously will all down vote ideas which might stop theirs getting in the top ten.
You know you will get a receptionist down voting something!