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Please Fix the Spam, the Points, the Features

I literally spend HOURS just wading through Spam.

The new forums are slow, they are missing extremely important features, the new Point system is ridiculous since everyone simply got their old points "moved over versus scaled".

I spend hours a day and night trying to help folks and I spent 50% of that at least in just avoid spam, and another 50% of the remaining 50%, trying to type super long answers and formatting and doing things, that ugg, I cannot believe made it out of UAT.

I personally hold myself responsible for not being able to help test.. but come on.. there is no way these things were not obvious just trying to post 1 time.

And please, fix the points. It makes no sense to move points (for all of us, including me) as if it's a 1:1 from the old system. It just makes it impossible for anyone to ever be seen as Active. The literal top 10 can just sit back and do nothing for months and years (yes literally years), and no one else will be "seen" as active. Notice I didn't say seen as "first or second", but people on here, they need to be able to @mention us, and the people they ping are in the list they can see as active... Its possible people who are not active (not including WarrenBelz) as he is a lot, are the only people that will be listed FOREVER.

But come on... please.. please.. put back Macros, put back mentions, fix the point, make it so that we can set our FILTER for what to show and it STAYS. Having to refresh 3 full times to get to A Forum, Not Answered, Date is silly.. Why are you making it so hard on those of us who are working our .... you know off... like this is a job that we do.. FOR FREE.

Who was doing the Feature by Feature comparison and deciding to remove this stuff???

As an Example: last month

As I was out for months due to major surgeries.. For me to make almost 3200 pts takes a ton of effort. At that, it would give me roughly 38,000 pts a year on the new scale. But to catch the top people it will take me years.. Why? That's silly, either reset it, for all or scale it.

I fully agree with the frustrations shared here. The new forum setup is causing a lot of unnecessary challenges for those of us trying to help. Beyond the obvious issues like the slow response times and missing features, I've noticed that quite a few notifications just lead me to the home page when I select them. And when I try to find them in my activity, they sometimes disappear altogether, making it difficult to track and respond to ongoing discussions.

I’m also concerned about how these issues might be affecting those seeking help. If the site is confusing or unreliable, there’s a real risk that people asking questions will get frustrated and stop using this forum—or even the Power Platform—altogether. This makes it even more urgent to fix the problems and restore the features that allowed us to help people quickly and effectively.

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