Check it out: Things that ST New Chinese official forum doesn’t want to tell netizens

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A while ago, ST announced that its Chinese forum was online, and then Guanzi went there to browse around: ST official Chinese forum is online~ Let's go and browse around , and then paste the access address: https://shequ.stmicroelectronics.cn/

Then some netizens posted a soul-searching question:

——I really don’t understand the significance and positioning of this Chinese “forum”

——Compared with their previous ST forum, there have been great changes, and you can no longer recognize the forum.

Guan Zai said, I just received the message, the same as what you saw.

However, this message was sent to me by someone from their sensor department, so I made an irresponsible guess that it might be a site led by their department. Until someone from ST found me -

Uh, I feel like I'm going to get into trouble~~ Finally, through one of their conference portals, I can directly share the screen and discuss the construction of their forum. There are indeed some mysteries, I will pick out what I remember and tell you. First of all, let me talk about the positioning and significance of this Chinese forum: covering the entire ST product line, integrating all localized resources, focusing on & quickly solving engineers' questions

The secret that ST doesn’t want to tell: Technical issues posted on the forum are directly pushed to the relevant FAE mailbox

In order to allow netizens to get answers to their technical questions quickly, but ST FAE cannot always watch the forum , so the technical questions and answers of the ST forum are linked to their email system, that is, when you ask a question in the forum, it will be sent to the mailbox of the relevant FAE, and the content of the FAE's reply in the mailbox will be directly posted to the forum. It feels pretty good, but why doesn't ST want everyone to know about this? Because they are afraid that everyone will have too high expectations for this and become too dependent on it. For example, for some simple questions or questions that have been asked, instead of thinking about how to solve them or searching to see if they have been asked before, they just want to wait for FAE, and then ST FAE gets tired of it and breaks this function ~

Before asking a question, I suggest you search to see if anyone has asked the same question before. You can use Baidu or other search engines or search within the site. In order to solve problems quickly, ST has set up a hidden function for you to associate with the ST FAE mailbox. ST's emails are quite fast in solving problems. Usually, when we have a problem that the moderator littleshrimp can't solve, I email feedback to his FAE, and they can quickly come to the forum to post a reply to solve it.

Integrate localized resources , covering ST's full product line resources and discussions

ST users asked, "Do you have an official download location for many localized resources?" ST official website often has problems downloading. So the emergence of this forum will gradually integrate all localized resources of ST products. In addition, Guan Zai's irresponsible statement earlier may be wrong to focus on the sensor product line. They want to integrate all ST product lines, including their MCU part, which will also be gradually migrated there~

At present, we can see its desire to slowly integrate from the login: the ST Chinese Forum will realize single sign-on with the STM32 Chinese official website (https://www.stmcu.com.cn), and you only need to log in once to access the STM32 Chinese official website and forum at the same time.

The concepts of team and tag replace the commonly used sections and sub-sections

Currently, 8 teams have been established. I have captured 2 product lines that they don’t often visit, which means they want to integrate the entire product line. Check out all of them: https://shequ.stmicroelectronics.cn/group.php

Maker Show allows netizens to upload their own works. In the future, there are plans to directly link the devices and boards involved in the works to the purchase channels.

ST will upload all the relevant works of this year's "STM32 Summit Hackathon 24-hour Development Competition" here. In addition, the upload function is also open to netizens. I saw the screenshot of the badminton training monitor made by @justd0 in the schematic diagram of the ST official guide, but I can't see it when I actually log in. It is probably a permission issue, or ST has not released it and is only giving a hint.

I won't say much about the rest. I just saw that ST also made a community user guide manual: >> Click here to view . The detailed introduction of each module, the preferences of personal accounts, etc. can all be found in the manual, which is very detailed.

A newly established forum will inevitably have various problems. ST looks forward to the opinions of lovely engineers on the forum. If some places do not conform to your usage habits, don't be impatient. Join the forum usage and optimization team of the ST official website to ask questions or follow this post and raise them elegantly.

dcexpert

Not used to it

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However, the fact that it is inconvenient and difficult to use cannot be changed. The old site is closed, a lot of posts are invalid, and the new site's "posts" or "articles" are arranged in a disorderly manner. I guess many people who are learning 32 will be diverted to other forums.

damiaa

Something doesn't feel right.

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damiaa posted on 2021-4-16 10:25 It feels wrong.

where?

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Digital Leaf published on 2021-4-15 08:54 Then it can't change the fact that it is inconvenient and difficult to use. The old site is closed, a lot of posts are invalid, and the new site "posts" or should be called "text...

The old site is closed, and the posts will probably be imported here.

All posts on the new site have tags. If you browse posts from the perspective of tags, it won’t be too disorganized.

It may be different from traditional forums, and people are still not used to it.

freebsder

The domain name is too long to remember

yubinwu

It turns out that ST has two and a half forums, acquisition and non-acquisition? What should I do with the remaining second aunt and half of this place?

I have an account in the original and non-ST forum, but I can't merge it with the account on the ST Chinese official website.

Anyway, it's weird. The new forum style looks like it was copied from TI's own EE (not EE here)