The SAP Community site revamp of 2024 is ongoing and promises to be unveiled Tuesday so here are my predictions on Monday.
At the moment blog reads increment on reload questions do not. Implying more work on the latter. We'll lose all previous read page counts and start from 0. Links to other community members will be about as correct as a week ago.
Questions may be stricken from the record. I bookmarked 2 to see if they make the cut. Criteria were established in the plan where irrelevant topics get purged, and as the TOC reads, SAP at their sole discretion may delete any content. No takebacks.
Broken links and missing images are likely. Like other platform changes, fix or tape over. I know I missed the chance to tag my hundreds of posts, always expecting some algorithm to do it for me.
Blogs that were planned for demolition has a stay of execution so no one should vanish. The "just JSON plan" faltered in the light of day. I had already planned my own recovery process.
When we thought some posts would vanish, I ran a mini project to archive.org my own posts.
Some had been snapped before, some not. Questions might be archived but I didn't look hard except for a couple test samples and a review of the answer thon.
Bio pages were to be revamped, but before the read-only phase started were skeletal or minimal.
Messages and inboxes are a mess, as are contacts given prior art. Remains to be seen how much previous net connections need to be renewed.
What to expect?
Community members will begin to engage in the new space, or decide to skip town. Leader boards and gamiification only go so far.
Search engine optimization will be improved. After the "deadwood" gets flushed from the search caches, which takes time.
Blogs posts will be slower than before given potential permission changes, and the tool belt shuffle going from Word Press to Not Word Press. I am particularly interested in the finer points of code and text snippet displays once I saw a bit of the HTML differences.
