MH 2022-01-10 SOLIDWORKS News & Info

Happy New Year to everyone and we thank you for connecting and participating in the SOLIDWORKS User Forum community in 3DSwym. In this post I cover the statistics for last year and changes applied to the community for 2022

2021 Statistics

Since the forum migrated to 3DSwym in April of 2021, we have seen:

1M views
450K visits, 70K unique visitors
1K Blog posts
1.7K Questions
413 Ideas

Scroll the Other 2021 stats:

Top Read Contributors	Times Read
MH	visited 4880 times
MK	visited 3449 times
RP	visited 3113 times
FO	visited 2611 times
BA	visited 2482 times

Most read posts
Incorporating your valuable UX feedback	read 2077 times
July 21, 2021: Forum Update	read 1738 times
SWPUC32 - Equidistant Points on a Hemisphere (The Thomson Problem) - Win a Power User Certificate!	read 751 times
SOLIDWORKS forum data migration plan	read 641 times
June 30. 2021 Update: Forum Data Migration	read 490 times

Top Contributors:

🥇 - @BA
🥈 - @ZT
🥉 - @LB

Top Idea Generating Users:

🥇 - @ZT
🥈 - @AL
🥉 - @DL & @FO

Overall Top Responders

🥇 - @FL
🥈 - @KC
🥉 - @AL

Congratulations and a very BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed to the forum since the migration of 2021!

What's New For The Community In 2022?

As mentioned in my Happy Holidays post from late December of last year, we have a few changes based upon user feedback:

Changes Happening:	Why:
*Given the primary types of interactions happening in this community - User Questions and Answers* - the Ideas feature within this community is disabled**	This will make the Q&A process smoother by allowing the community content entry type's default = Question Many users were unknowingly entering Questions as Ideas and thus causing community timeline disruption and UX confusion Existing Ideas in this community will remain visible and engagement with that content will continue.
Community membership democratization	Given that the User Forum is 3DSwym "Public" community, there is no need to be a declared member - unless you desire to create and add a Wiki page to the community. If you were a declared community member, you will have received notification stating, "You are no longer a member..." of this community; that only means you are no longer a declared member of the community. If you would like to have Wiki creation capability, please contact @MH or one of the other community owners with your request and details.
New community for entering 3DSwym enhancement request Ideas	If you would like to submit a 3DSwym Enhancement Request (ER), please access and join this new, Private community - SOLIDWORKS Forum Enhancement Ideas - and you will be added as a declared community Contributor so that you can enter in your Idea(s). If you have a SOLIDWORKS software-related enhancement, please continue to enter those requests in the SOLIDWORKS Customer Portal.

Given that 2021 was a monumental year of forum/community transition, another 🙏THANK YOU🙏 and round of 👏applause👏 to everyone who contributed in 2021 and we look forward to a great year in 2022.

Be well, healthy and hope to see you at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 - either live or virtually.

@MH