As I cannot find any place to tell my opinion to the RG's web manger, I post this question.
ResearchGate recently eliminated Contribution page and replaced it by Timeline. I don't like Timeline because it has no perspicuity. It takes too much time before arriving to a necessary file.
I used Contribution page when I want to find an interesting paper of a researcher I am interested of. The timing of interaction of the author is not very important. I want to see a simple list of papers, questions and answers. The old Contribution page was a good tool in this regard. How do you think of all this? Why RG has no function to listen to users' opinion?
As one of rather heavy users of RG, I am angry with this.
After I have posed this question, I found a button "Contact us" at the very bottom of pages. I send my question to "I'd like to give some feedback." I hope it will arrived to the person who works on web design.
Here's another thread that expressed dismay on the new timeline and ways to circumvent it... i think...
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_purpose_of_this_bizarre_new_Timeline_feature_in_ResearchGate
Horrible concept that should have had member input prior to implementation. However, as I noted to RG, why cen we not have it the old way and they add their "Timeline" as a separate feature that does not screw up everything else? I contributed an article Monday and had to scroll halfway down the "Timeline" with "Publications" selected to see it? Why is my recent addition in the middle of my Timeline?
Dear James A Green,
there many instability in RG recently. Here, for example, I see answers in the time order form the new to older ones. In another page, or occasion, answers are arranged in the time order from the oldest to recent ones.
I doubt if this is an instability of the system or web-designers are texting which one is better. At any rate, when we cannot understand what is happening in RG, we will be confused and bewildered much.
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Very strange at all. The order was reversed when I posted my last "answer."
Yoshinori,
I too have noticed instability in RG Questions in the last 2 or 3 days. I go to a question and it might show discussions from months ago. I refresh and it might show answers months, days, and minutes old. I refresh again and it shows correct oldest to newest. Very unstable. Happens in both Internet Explorer 11 and Google Chrome.
Romer, James, Susan , Francesco, and Masahiro
Romer brought me a good news. Thank you very much. I suffered much with my Timeline. I now know how Contribution is well designed.
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