What happened to the Answers design?

[Harry Chan]

The jacket looks cool. Still a lot of points to go. Hopefully with this auto system we can finally get some swag. The manual system never worked.

[Dennis Kromhout van der Meer]

I humbly apologize for the mess, the reason why was because it was a cumbersome manual process and the demand grew so large that we became completely overwhelmed by it. Hopefully with automating the process it will now be a lot better, let me know if you're running into problems getting your new tshirt/backpack :)

[Harry Chan]

Thanks Dennis. Working towards the jacket! I like that the most compared to the other swag.

[RambanamP]

UI looks awesome!!!!

[Bruna Griebeler]

It's beautiful!! Love it!

[Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)]

Please try to follow the StackExchange models as much as possible, removing the quesiton voting options was not a good option, there are good questions and bad ones. In this case the problem was the missing incentive for voting these questionss. SE model is very well designed and tuned, don't try to reinvent the wheel.

Instead just find incentives for people to use this site, so far I was pleased about the answers from atlassian partenrs but getting answers from atlassian employees was not as common as I would expect.

Considering that answers.atlassian.com is a way to ease the work of the support team, please ask support team to answer questions on the site. Find a way to motivate them to anwer this questions.

Personally I would like to be able to disable the badge notifications, as I am not interested about these, I just want to find the answers to my questions and share my knowledge when it makes sense.

[ConradR]

+1 for question voting

[Dennis Kromhout van der Meer]

Duly noted, we noticed a bunch of you are missing it. We're going to bring this back in the next release: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-1000

[Radu Dumitriu]

Ok, you will hate me for this but: this design looks nice, but I believe it misses a lot of functionality stuff. One example: before, I only had to do one click to see the questions, now I have to clink on "Browse", then Questions. Stuff like this ..

[Ramiro Pointis]

Just my opinion: In my case I prefer this way because in the same button I have all the options I usually use, Questions, Badges, Users. More comfortable in same spot.

[Radu Dumitriu]

Yeah, Ramiro, I will get used to that as well ... :)

I can add: questions in the main page - no user (some users have really interesting questions, but I don't want to follow them, as they have a lot of activity here). Again, little stuff like this ...

[Dennis Kromhout van der Meer]

I agree that we made some of the paths longer by nesting them in a menu, but I hope this will improve the quality of the site. Also, instead of clicking on Browse -> Questions you can also click on the Answers logo that will take you to the same question list :)

I'll see if I can add the user back in an elegant manner as well.

[Dennis Kromhout van der Meer]

I can add: questions in the main page - no user (some users have really interesting questions, but I don't want to follow them, as they have a lot of activity here). Again, little stuff like this ...

We'll be bringing this back in https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-1036

Also, we're going to bring this back in the next release: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-1000

Please let me know if there are any other things from the old design that you'd like to get back :)