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Welcome to the new and improved Connect forum!

Googler

For months, we’ve been hard at work updating Connect to make it a more enjoyable and inclusive experience for everyone. Many of our updates are the result of direct feedback, including suggestions that Local Guides made at last year’s big event in California. So thank you! We’re so excited to finally share this redesign with you.

 

Caption: A photo of a phone displaying the Travel section on the redesigned Connect website surrounded by various pins, a passport, two polaroid photos, a plate of gummy fish, and other colorful props.Caption: A photo of a phone displaying the Travel section on the redesigned Connect website surrounded by various pins, a passport, two polaroid photos, a plate of gummy fish, and other colorful props.

On the new Connect, we wanted to make it easier to discover posts you care about most. We’ve created site sections based on popular topics. Whether you’re a foodie or a photographer, you’ll find posts you’re interested in with just one click from the site menu.

 

If you want to read about Local Guides news and Google Maps updates first, check Announcements frequently. Here, you’ll get insider information straight from Googlers, and before official emails go out.

 

Local Guides come from all over the world and speak many different languages. To make Connect a more inclusive experience, the forum is now available in 33 languages. We’ve also updated our accessibility features so that Local Guides using screen readers can more easily participate on Connect. Now, even more Local Guides will be able to discover your amazing contributions and create their own.

 

While we’re incredibly proud of the Local Guides program, we also know there’s always room for improvement. That’s why we’ve launched the Idea Exchange, a way for you to share your feedback with us directly. Use the Idea Exchange to share your ideas for Google Maps, Connect, perks, and more. You can also vote on ideas from other Local Guides, ask them questions, and offer suggestions. Popular ideas will be reviewed by Googlers and taken into consideration.

 

We hope you love the new Connect as much as we do! In the comments, let us know what you think and which features you’re most excited about.


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Level 8

Thank for the update, all doubt solved, almost. Hope connect more better.

Connect Moderator

Thanks @ErmesT

For your valuable comments. I do like the featured and trending articles features .

I am infact compiling a list of technical/non technical glitches, features addition/removal and will be discussing it during ConnectLive event ( provided given a chance ) 

 

Thanks once again and thanks to Google's team behind all the hardwork 

 

P.S. I try to follow your advice closely by not tagging moderators unnecessarily, that's whu didn't tag Traci 🙂

Level 8

Thank for the update, all doubt solved, almost. Hope connect more better.

 

Test for editing post reply

 

Level 8

Edit but showing 2 posts, still no edit button.

Let me know if I was wrong.Let me know if I was wrong.

 

 

 

Level 7

@KarenVChin
@LucioV
@AgoesSantosa

Technically this withdrawal of functionality is only a "bug" in the context of this section of the forum.

In the new Ideas Exchange area the full OPTION MENU - complete with EDIT functionality appears as can be seen in this screenshot :


edit-option-not-available-in-Announcements-section.png

 

This is more of an implementation issue than an actual software bug as far as I am able to determine but it nevertheless is not really a sensible choice since it can prevent Local Guides from correcting their own typos.


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■ "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?" ■ "Who watches the watchers ?" ■ the satirical poet, Juvenal ■ 1st century Rome ■
Level 9

Very nice post bro @OmerAli , and very nice reply from the Wise Man of this community our big bro @ErmesT@

Yeah I am already thinking of something new for connect  , for me connect is my internet home and my favorite social life and the members are my Cyper family as @VBenedict like to say ,

 Google team gives us the tool and we should help theto improve the experience of Millions around the world we must level up our experience , I am Reading and inspiring by Artificial intelligence , I believe it's our time to use our intelligence more wisely

Thanks again bro , yeah its  great to be top kudeod but also it's a big responsibility , some will appreciate and encourage you on public and on private as big bro Ermest and other great members  who I learn alot from ,  

 

Enough for today continue later it's 1 am and it's the third day of Eid Al adha 🙂 Eid Mubarak to all of you 

Level 9

The new connect is beautiful

Nigeria  
Level 8

Hi @TraciC Finally I have access to the New Revamped LG Connect. Thank you LG team. Thanks Traci.

Level 10

Pak @PaDeSSo , @BudiFXW @RahmatHarmanP @ndraverne mbak @AngieYC

 

Rupanya Google merubah tampilan tidak hanya di Localguidesconnect tapi juga di gmail, dan juga mengadakan perjanjian baru dengan whatsapp. 

(

Karena terdapat perjanjian baru antara WhatsApp dan Google, backup WhatsApp tidak akan lagi mengurangi kuota penyimpanan Google Drive. Namun, backup WhatsApp apa pun yang belum diupdate selama lebih dari satu tahun akan dihapus secara otomatis dari penyimpanan.
Kebijakan ini akan berlaku untuk semua pengguna mulai 12 November 2018, meskipun beberapa pengguna mungkin melihat manfaat kuota ini lebih awal. Agar backup tidak hilang, sebaiknya pengguna melakukan backup WhatsApp secara manual sebelum 12 November 2018.)
Level 10

Ya. Banyak hal baru yang terjadi @kasiyanta.

 

Saya masih terus mempelajarinya.

Terutama kebiasaa  dulu untuk pindah pindah penggunaan bahasa dari Inggris ke bahasa Indonesia.

 

Sekarang saya belum menemukan cara yang praktis.

Tag (@BudiFXW) in your post or comment, I will happily to connect with you.
Level 10

Pak @BudiFXW

Ni saya mencari fitur yang untuk menampilkan posting khusus berbahasa Indonesia atau yang kemaren ada pilihan lokasi sebelum di upload.

Pak @PaDeSSo mungkin bisa memberi pencerahan? 

Terima kasih

Level 10

Super job @TraciC  There was obviously a tremendous amount of effort put into making this massive change. It really has a great look and feel to it. Nice going. Regards, Koby

Level 7


Here are some direct links to parts of the Local Connect forum that are not currently listed :


I'm not sure if there were other links that may have been temporarily removed from the list.

These were the only ones that I could remember.

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■ "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?" ■ "Who watches the watchers ?" ■ the satirical poet, Juvenal ■ 1st century Rome ■

Thanks to all @googlers  for the amaising résults .... 

 

Congratulations 🎉🧜‍♀️🍾🎊💫👍♥️

Level 8

Lets Make a party.Lets Make a party.

Lets us make a party, everyone welcomes to Malaysia.

Proud to be a Local Guide.
Level 6

Thank you @TraciC & Google team 😊 

Anonymous
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I'm a proud beta tester LG forum 🙂

Level 8

Enjoying this wonderful new redesign. Thanks to connect team for this awesome creation.😀😀😀

Level 10

@TraciC this is super cool UI. Easy and nice to the eyes 🙂

Level 9

Wow! It's a great update in term of user-friendly and the site speed too (if accessing from Cambodia). Thank for sharing!

Google Moderator

Halo @kasiyanta@FXBudiW@PaDeSSo@RahmatHarmanP & @ndraverne,

 

Terima kasih telah berbagi informasi tambahan ini, akan sangat berguna bagi Local Guides lainnya. 

 

Dalam tampilan baru Connect, kamu harus memilih setidaknya satu topik untuk membuat suatu post pada Connect. Pilihlah topik mana yang paling tepat menggambarkan post kamu. Jika, post kamu tergolong dalam beberapa topik, kamu dapat menambahkannya dibawah pada topik tambahan di bagian bawah halaman. Post kamu akan muncul sesusi dengan topik yang kamu pilih. 

 

Jangan segan untuk tetap menuliskan post kamu dengan bahasa yang dirasa nyaman untuk kamu gunakan. Karena tujuan utama kita adalah agar seluruh anggota Local Guides dapat saling berkomunikasi secara global. 

 

Untuk informasi lebih lanjut mengenai topik, silahkan membaca artikel What are Connect topics?

 

Semoga informasi ini dapat membantu. 

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This is SO COOL! I love it.

Really interested in seeing how the Idea Exchange will evolve through time.

Level 10

Terima kasih @AngieYC.

 

Saya coba menulis fokus pada topik topik yang disarankan.

 

 

saya harus terus membiasakan diri dengan tampilan yang baru ini.

 

 

Terima kasih

Tag (@BudiFXW) in your post or comment, I will happily to connect with you.
Google Moderator

Halo @FXBudiW,

 

Kurang lebih seperti saat mengganti ponsel baru, harus membiasakan diri di saat awal menggunakannya. 

 

Semoga informasinya dapat membantu. 

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Level 8

The layout definitely looks a look cleaner and neater, though I think I may need time getting used to it! But thanks for actively engaging with the community!

Level 8
wow nice UI UX so colourful,brigten my day thanks fellow team Local Guides 🙂
Former Google Contributor

Hi @Ranjan_Kumar_Swain,

 

Please feel free to share your feedback or any suggestions that you may have concerning Connect or the Local Guides program in general in the Idea Exchange.

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Level 10

Love you all!!!! 

Level 10

Thanks to Google team for a wonderful all new connect. 

Former Google Contributor

Thank you @LucioV and @aka_Rὁn for bringing this to our attention! The issue regarding the non-existing editing option has already been escalated to the appropriate team. I will provide further updates when they are available.

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Level 7

I haven't explored it yet, but I appreciate the effort very much.

Level 7

cc : @LucioV
Dear @KlaudiyaG

Thank you for suggesting that bug reports be submitted to the new Ideas Exchange board for review  as our access to the earlier boards is no longer provided by the trendy new menu.

Please forgive me but I am beginning to have grave misgivings about the way that this new system is meant to work.

Perhaps the screenshot apppended below  will give you some indication why.

An important issue has been swept aside by being immediately closed and to cap it all the reason given contains advice that the Local Guide should use the Ideas Exchange board to post any suggestions ... which he had ALREADY done!

Go figure ! ... as they say in the States ...

😉



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■ "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?" ■ "Who watches the watchers ?" ■ the satirical poet, Juvenal ■ 1st century Rome ■
Level 8

Really Great User Experience.

Change is good but this one is epic😃😃

Congratulations Team your hard work is awesome

@TraciC

Level 9

Wow, a great announcement for us! Thanks for sharing such a new and improved update with us. Again @TraciC thanks a lot. Much happy after seeing this update.

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Level 8

Thanks @TraciC 

You and the team's hard had really came out well on new UI of LGC

Congratulations

AJ Singh

This is a great addition.

Level 8

So many thanks to you @TraciC and your LG.

Level 9

Hi @KarenVChin@ValeriaA_@FaridTDF@ErmesT@TraciC,

 

I just noticed that some of our badges are missing. Do you have any idea if the Engineering Team did that on purpose? Or they're rolling out the new design of those missing badges?

 

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Cheers,

Jed

 

 

Former Google Contributor

@WalterSanders,

 

We changed Connect to make it a more enjoyable and inclusive experience for Local Guides like you. While the specific language boards do not exist at this time, we’ve made it easier to discover posts you care about and find out about the latest program updates. 

I am not available to respond on the weekend
Connect Moderator

Hi @JedR

This is not an official reply!

As far as I know, the badges for 5, 10, 25 have been removed. Not a big issue I would say, and very well balanced by the 1000 kudo badge.

I have no information about the Google maps badges, that are in any case well represented by the level showed in our profile.

There is already a post about the subject, in which I will merge this post

Level 10
Level 9

Hi @ErmesT,

 

Thanks for the info. I agree with you, that's not a big issue. I'm just so stoked about the redesign. 

 

Cheers,

Jed

Connect Moderator

The purpose of this design is to highlight contents @JedR, and to have, in one shot, all the community displayed in front of you in one shot on the main page.

Of course, for every section, you can choose to see the trending post, or the most recent, or all, or simply the ones with a specific tag, like "mapping for good" or other. This will make much easier to find a post, or a specific subject, in a few touch.

Feel free to explore

Level 9

@ErmesT it is! I love this redesign since day 1 of beta testing. I have high hopes that the bugs we've reported previously will be fixed soon. 

Connect Moderator

Of course @JedR

I am a senior process engineer, designing automation for whole factories, and this happens every time that you have to run a new project. The bugs are prioritized, from the critical ones, to end on the smallest.

The platform is stable, faster than the old one, as @OmerAli said. There are minor bugs, and things that, running now with the whole community, are discovered. There is space for new improvements, and a specific board for suggesting and reporting.

BTW, the new things are always scaring someone, and this usually happens to the members with more experience, like me, because more used to manage the old system.

I had to learn everything again, I still learning, but now that I see the machine running, I can personally say that I like it

Connect Moderator

Hola @JedR, Connect 2.0 esta con nosotros y creo que la acogida que esta teniendo entre todos los usuarios es buena, no leo grandes disconformidades, al contrario la mayoría son alago para con la interfaces y la manera de destacar los post, de la misma manera cambiaron  las insignias, desde mi punto de vista para mejor, están adaptadas a todo el nuevo entorno. creo que es cuestión de tiempo para terminar de adaptarse en caso de ya no estés

 

 Saludos Farid

For the case that has difficulty, in reading my answer, in the upper left part of the screen, in the drop-down menu of languages, you can select the language, in which you want to read the post.

adaptados a ella.

 

 

Level 8

I like the way it looks but I don't like how you don't have a general discussion section. Where can you just ask general questions to. I had to select a category and it matched none of the choices so now no one will see what I would like an answer too. 

Level 10

mbak @AngieYC

Apakah pemilihan topik ini hanya berlaku untuk post baru setelah ada perubahan wajah ini?

Seperti thread tentang masakah khas daerah. saya buat sebelum ada perubahan.

Ketika saya cari di topik tentang makana minuman tidak ada.

Mohon pencerahannya!!

Terima kasih

This is terrible, totaly unusable!

 

Worst interface period. Let me find the button to close my account. This 3rd party colaborative web tool is rubbish.

 

The announcement should have read, "HEY HONEY, I ENLARGED THE WEB PAGE, REALLY LARGE"!

Level 10

Pak @PaDeSSo , @BudiFXW

Saya butuh berapa tahun ya untuk mencapai 5000 hati?