topic Re: Where did the ArcGIS Server Blog go? in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Where did the ArcGIS Server Blog go?

MarkHoover — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:36:45 GMT

Did the ArcGIS Server Blog disappear or change URLs? If I try to hit http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisserver/ now, I am taken to what appears to be a general ArcGIS blog.

Re: Where did the ArcGIS Server Blog go?

nicogis — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:53:32 GMT

is there a update for blog esri: http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2012/03/02/updating-the-mapping-center-blog/

Re: Where did the ArcGIS Server Blog go?

MarkHoover — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:18:40 GMT

This is a dreadful change, at least for me. Server was the only blog I read, and I'm not sure how to navigate to exclusively ArcGIS Server topics on this new blog, as there is no category for it. Clicking ArcGIS Server from the Tag Cloud does not seem to bring back all the old ArcGIS Server Blog posts, and additionally, viewing the posts by title only makes it impossible to quickly skim each article and see if it's worth a full read.

In short, accessing the information that is relevant to me is now harder, if not impossible, and the user interface makes extracting the information out of useful posts harder.

Just my feedback; perhaps others love the changes.

Re: Where did the ArcGIS Server Blog go?

JeffPace — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:13:54 GMT

Agreed. I preferred the technology driven approach.

Re: Where did the ArcGIS Server Blog go?

KenMorefield — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:17:04 GMT

I'll concur - I don't care for the new format at all! I searched for "javascript" to try and filter out relevant blog posts. It didn't even come up with the most recent blog posts that I was reading two weeks ago! I'll try to keep an open mind, but I'm not liking what I'm seeing!

Ken

Re: Where did the ArcGIS Server Blog go?

StephenLead — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:03:39 GMT

accessing the information that is relevant to me is now harder, if not impossible, and the user interface makes extracting the information out of useful posts harder.

Unfortunately, each new change to the Esri site seems to follow this pattern...

Re: Where did the ArcGIS Server Blog go?

MarkHoover — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:23:42 GMT

Unfortunately, each new change to the Esri site seems to follow this pattern...

I'm normally not one to bemoan change, certainly not without a valid reason, but in this case I think it is a clear step backwards in terms of navigating to the content relevant to me. Glad to hear I'm not the only one.

Re: Where did the ArcGIS Server Blog go?

StephenLead — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:38:03 GMT

There is some additional information at the blog posts below - perhaps we could all leave comments to let Esri know what we like/don't like about the new layout;

http://resources.arcgis.com/content/resource-center-sneak-peek
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2012/02/23/improvements-to-the-resource-center/
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2012/03/02/updating-the-mapping-center-blog/

Edit: I just posted this:

Hi Aileen,
Please see the forum posts at http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/52022-Where-did-the-ArcGIS-Server-Blog-go where a lot of people are unhappy with the new format.
In particular, it is now actually harder to find the information we want, not easier.
Since Esri have so many products, it�??s important to be able to filter information by specific product, not just by area. As an example, the Developers page at http://resourcesbeta.arcgis.com/en/communities/developer/doesn�??t have the ability to filter based on the JavaScript API only. Many developers work with only one of the APIs, and it�??s distracting and time-consuming to sort through results from other APIs.
From the URL above, try searching on �??feature layer�?�. It�??s (seemingly) impossible to filter only the JavaScript API entries. It�??s actually faster to use Google than to search within the Esri forums.
Please feel free to get in touch directly if you�??d like to discuss this further.
Thanks,
Steve

Re: Where did the ArcGIS Server Blog go?

PeterGoodman — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:34:57 GMT

Agreed with the above posts.

Navigation to a generalized blog post that looks like a throwback to the old HTML tag days and FTP looking tree.

Going to the Blog post from Ask a Cartographer I was able to see a lot of things easily without having to navigate through a long tree list and trying to find the right keyword.

Bad move.

Re: Where did the ArcGIS Server Blog go?

MattDown — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:25:34 GMT

More information posted, http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2012/03/07/welcome-to-the-new-unified-arcgis-blog/

Re: Where did the ArcGIS Server Blog go?

MarkHoover — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:57:54 GMT

I still wouldn't say it's perfect, but there have already been some changes based on our feedback, it appears. Now when you go into a category, it previews the post by displaying some of the body of the post and not just the title. The Search appears improved too...previously searching "JavaScript API" turned up no results; now it does, and they mostly seem pretty relevant.