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Oracle Support Forums Now with New Look and More Forums

It looks like forums.oracle.com has got a new look:

Here is a snapshot of the old version:

In addition to the obvious change in the UI, new forums were added for Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and more:

I have also noticed that there is a new forums RSS page. I like the changes, however, they introduce more page scrolling. By the way, you can find a more web2.0′ish forums skin at otnsemanticweb.oracle.com/forums.jsp.

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Filed in Oracle on 04 Sep 07


Reader's Comments

  1. |

    A big improvement.

    Also, nice to see that dedicated forums have been created for Siebel.

  2. |

    Yes Andy, it’s better. I would like to see some AJAX or at least some JavaScript goodness on forums.oracle.com; For example, expand/collapse all forums under each category, instead of displaying 4 forums and a More… .

  3. |

    Great Stuff.

    I wish somehow they would UPDATE the forums in metalink with the same layout or combine the two. Give anything if metalink had RSS ..guess that a different wish list.

    OTN wish list: once you sign in to OTN (is there a greasemonkey script around?) 1. portal page of what you want to see..read I am so spoiled by the igoogle layout

    1. an otn forum that is auto update with PATCH/downloads information from metalink

    …guess we could on and on ….I better stop..

    thank for the info

  4. |

    Patrick, you can get your MetaLink headlines emailed to you every day. I know it’s not as good as RSS but it works if you want to see what’s new…

  5. |

    Hi,

    one disadvantage of the new layout is that i only get 8 forums displayed on my browser vs. >20 forums with the old layout. Why is so much space wasted with white space?

  6. |

    Matt

    Thanks. I forgot…your right.

    Patrick