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Should it ?I think the old forum did ?

The old forum had a facility to report a User Profile; eg, an inappropriate avatar or username or for spamming.This was separate from reporting Posts.I don’t see that on the new forum ?  

Follow-on from: Generally, when a thread gets abandoned there may be some useful content in the replies - so it makes sense to keep the thread. But, if the thread is abandoned with no replies at all - is there any point in keeping it ?Examples:  (all now locked due to no activity for >1 year)

The new forum seems to be wrapping lines within source code blocks; eg lines 44 & 45 here: This really messes with the layout - surely, it’s one of the things which a code block specifically should not do ?

There are a lot of abandoned threads; eg,with no useful replies at all.That one is 2 years old, and still open for comments. Another:Also 2 years old, but that one is closed for comments.The final comment there looks like it is probably the solution, but no confirmation or other feedback from the OP. I think we needs a way to distinguish these abandoned threads from.They should probably be excluded from consideration as ‘Related topics’ - which is how I came across these 2. Not a new issue - it was the same on the old forum - and not urgent.But another for the “future enhancements” list … ? Related: 

When writing a reply, clicking Send does visually nothing until the thread reloads with the new post.This can take quite a couple of seconds, during which one wonders whether he did click Send properly or what’s going on.It would be nice if clicking Send would result in some immediate visual confirmation, before the actual reload.JW PS> I have no idea what “product area” nor “tags” would this post belong to, so I just clicked some random. Maybe “Other” could be added for such purposes?

I’m absolutely sure this post had an attachment, as ​@ChrisO  writes in that post.It appears to got lost during migration.Can ST please check.I wonder, whether this is related to the fact that the attachment was added not to the initial post of the thread, but later on in the thread. And of course the question arises, how many similar attachments got lost.Thanks,JW

Gramar = Grammar. 😁I am currently studying the GPDMA peripheral in the STM32U5XX.I am trying to use a linked-list with 2D addressing to control an ILI9488 from the FMC, speeding refresh rates up further apart from fully using the GPU2D. I am running into some issues with the GPDMA, so I need to study it further.The comments were written by engineers, and they probably spent more time on the quality of good and reliable code than on writing the comments. I'm a bit like that myself, but I expected slightly better comments from ST.May I provide feedback on the text in the header of stm32u5xx_hal_dma_ex.c?I have corrected the spelling of that part and this can be used to improve these comments. No pun intended, but help offered.What’s the best way to do this? Posting it here, or better send some private email to the involved party? 

Here: It says “2 Replies” - but there are actually three (one is hidden): Also in the Topic listing:  I said this “hiding” of replies would lead to confusion - it seems it’s even confusing the forum itself !

There is no ‘Quote’ option on the opening post of a thread; eg, But it’s there on all other posts in a thread:  Seems daft & inconsistent to not have it on the OP !

eg, see here: https://www.st.com/resource/en/user_manual/um1690-discovery-kit-for-stm32f0-series-microcontrollers-with-stm32f072rb-stmicroelectronics.pdf#page=13 The #page=13 should be included in the URL, so that the linked PDF opens at page 13

Here:https://community.st.com/stm32-mcus-60/how-to-solve-debugger-connection-issues-172?tid=172&fid=60#:~:text=See%20Also%3A%C2%A0How%20to%20solve%20connection%20errors%20when%20connecting%20and%20programming%20the%20STM32%20target%20board.(why did the forum not automatically linkify that? I had to do it manually) The URL is:https://community.st.com/t5/stm32-mcus/how-to-solve-connection-errors-when-connecting-and-programming/tac-p/786977But that just goes to the community Home page. It should go to this post: PS:The next link in that post also fails in the same way:https://community.st.com/t5/stm32-mcus/faq-possible-communication-failure-between-stlink-v3-and-some/tac-p/736830 It should link to this: 

For example, in this post:I use this link to a specific post in another thread:https://community.st.com/t5/stm32-mcus-embedded-software/stm32cubemx-file-for-the-stm32h747i-disco-usb-webcam-example/m-p/745530/highlight/true#M57279But that doesn’t work - it gets directed to https://community.st.com/#M57279 - which just shows the “home” page of the new community. If I remove the /highlight/true#M57279 part, it seems to work. 

I would like a “version control” tag in the forum.Sometimes there are questions related to version control such as generated code/projects not being git friendly or users need help with setting up a gitignore.

Example here: So it invites me to “edit tags”.It even lets me add more tags:But, when I press ‘Save’, it refuses: 

For two days the Sidekick refuses to open.  Is it anything on my side?Windows 11, Edge browser. Everything else looks ok.--- >  

Dear Support,Good morning, I am unable to log into ols.st.com.  I get the following error: We can't log you in because of an issue with single sign-on. Contact your Salesforce admin for help.Please let me know what I can do to resolve this issue?Best regards 

For a given forum, say “STM32 MCUs Products”, I guess subscribers only receive emails for new Topics, but not the replies. Is there any way to get emails for all the posts, including the replies? If not now, then I suggest/request adding that option to the user settings somehow. The old forum allowed one to capture pretty much everything for a forum of interest.

In this thread:There is a PDF attached.On the old forum, attached PDFs could be viewed online - without having to download.I can’t see how to do that now - clicking, or right-clicking and choosing ‘open in new tab’ both just try to start a download.Am I missing something?

I have some subscriptions around STM32 community and appreciate email notifications for it. This gives me many mails every day with only a few of them beeing really interesting for me. So I have a look on my incoming mails from time to time and want to have at least a short reading in a few interesting ones and delete the others immediately.Before switching to the new forum SW I received emails for my subscription with a sender field reading Community Mailer and a useful subject line like e.g.:Re: Floating point vs fixed point calculations (STMicroelectronics Community Subscription Update)So I see could decide very fast which mails could be deleted immediately leaving only some of them to open for reading. Now all notification mails have the same sender again of course entry (now ST Community notification) and nearly all the same subject line like A new topic has been created in STM32 MCUs Boards and hardware tools. (differing only in the subscription title).The subject line gives me n

In the previous forum I could insert an image and if it was too large or small, I could resize it. Now when you click on the image, the resize handles no longer show on the sides or corners of image. Instead, it shows “Insert image caption” below the image.  

The new community seems to be very slow in terms of surfing it (3/6 second for each page load). It’s definetly not my internet as I’ve 1gbps and before it was super snappyEDIT above seems back to normalI’ve figured out that there’s no HTML view when edit the post________________________________________________________________________________________________ Another thing is that the answered questions have basically the same feeling of the unanswered ones. A green checkmark is not enought in my opinion. It should be highlighted more. 

This list, which appears in the right-hand sidebar of every thread: This is that highlighted one:It is 7 years old, has no replies, and is locked.It doesn’t seem at all useful/valuable to link to that post ?

We went through this on the old forum: We’re now back to the situation where an announcement, article, etc from ST looks exactly the same as a User question: There needs to be something that identifies this as Not A Question. Not particularly urgent, but something to add to list for “next stages” ...