Browse the latest shows in Docs

[ahawes-clarity]

Previously I would browse the latest show or series episodes/videos on Channel9. Since that content was moved to Doc/Shows I have lost that capability.

Docs/Shows has the capability to view shows or series and filter by products but I you cannot filter and show individual episodes/videos

My use case is that every week I want to review the latest content in certain categories.

The only way to do this now is to click into each show and see what videos are new. This is not really a viable solution for me and so I will likely not access these resources in the future.

Thanks

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[gewarren]

FYI @brstegge

[brstegge]

Hi @ahawes-clarity,

Sorry for the slow reply here, I'm just getting visibility to your comment.

I'm a PM on the Docs & Learn team. Thanks for the feedback. Can you tell me a little more about how you used to do this on Channel 9? I.E. did you use RSS feeds to subscribe to the latest episodes? How would you like to see that work today?

[ahawes-clarity]

Sure. I'll try.

I didn't really need to do anything special I don't think. By default Channel 9 would just display the most recent episodes/videos. I forget if I could filter by shows to only display results for the shows I cared about. But, when I visited each week or so I would see what videos had been added recently in one place. I would scroll/page through the results and watch any videos of interest.

In most cases this gave me what I wanted. The only issue that came up is when you all would dump a whole bunch of videos on the system at one time. In these cases I may have needed to scroll/page a bit more to get around a batch of videos that I didn't care about. But, in most cases, the shows put out videos at regular intervals so it was easy to quickly see what was new.

[brstegge]

OK, it sounds like an easier way to browse recently published episodes, and more specifically, the latest content that's important to you? Thanks, this is helpful feedback that we'll take into consideration when evolving the experience.

How do you feel about browsing through all recently published episodes vs. receiving a targeted feed of new episodes from only shows that you follow? Say, if we offered a feature that allowed you to subscribe to shows and receive a consolidated feed of new episodes as they're published?

In the meantime, this might help:

If you go to our show browse page, each show is represented by a tile. By default, the tiles are sorted by the date of the most recently published episode, and the date on the show's tile reflects the date of the most recent episode:

https://docs.microsoft.com/shows/browse

[ahawes-clarity]

I appreciate your consideration. Thanks

Receiving a targeted feed of new episodes would ne be helpful to me. I want to be able to consume content on my schedule. If I have a feed or notification system then I may be alerted to a video of interest but it is not likely to be at a time when I can consume it so I would need to have a way to "save it for later" which just adds to the complexity. In my case, I generally use the videos as part of the training time my company allots me. So, periodically, I break from the day-to-day and spend an hour trying to keep up on areas of interest. That's when I need to be able to find recent content that matters to be without at lot of overhead.

I do currently use the process you describe. I have even bookmarked a link that has my filter settings (thanks for putting the search parameters in the URL). But having to click on each show just to see if the latest video is one of interest leads to lots of clicking and loading for often very little gain.

One option I can think of is to provide the option to show results by show or video. I my case I would just pick video and I would get the results I need.