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Am I Looking in the Right Place for Recent Community Discussions?

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Ashwin Kumar H M
Community Champion
Consultant| Canarys Automation Ltd Bangalore, Karnataka, India

I wanted to check something with fellow community members regarding how you find recent discussion threads on ProjectManagement.com.

For my regular community participation, I generally visit the Community Central Discussions page and look for recent threads where I can contribute a comment, upvote, or start a discussion of my own.

Lately, however, I have found it increasingly difficult to locate recent discussions. Today, I had to navigate as far as Page 6 before finding a thread that I felt I could meaningfully contribute to, and that particular discussion had originally been posted in 2024.

This made me wonder whether I am looking in the right place.

Do you normally use Community Central to find current discussions, or are there other discussion pages, groups, categories, filters, or navigation options that I may be missing?

I would particularly appreciate hearing how other active members discover newly posted discussions across the ProjectManagement.com community.

Perhaps I have simply been using the same route for too long and there is a better way to find recent conversations.

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Kimberly Whitby
PMI Team Member
Online Community Specialist| PMI Newtown Square, Pa, United States
Hi Ashwin - here is the distinction between the two forums:

If the discussion primarily about project management → Post in Project Management Central.
If the discussion primarily about people, networking, PM.com, or community engagement? → Post in Community Central.
Project Management Central is usually the better choice because it gets the discussion in front of members looking for PM-related conversations. Community Central is generally better for relationship-building and community-focused discussions

I hope this helps!
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Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Ashwin, I more or less do what you do, and it is especially challenging when one person posts four or five questions at once, resulting in newer posts getting buried within the pile. I have raised this with PMI multiple times, proposing:

1) They add to their regulations that no member is allowed to post more than one discussion question within a 24-hour period.

2) They increase the number of latest posts displayed on the main page from five to ten.

No action has been taken so far, and I doubt there will be any in the near future. It is what it is, I guess. We will just have to live with the fact that many valuable discussions could be missed.
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1 reply by Kimberly Whitby
Sep 23, 2026 8:48 PM
Kimberly Whitby
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Hi Rami - thank you for raising this concern. We are aware of this issue and have been actively monitoring it within the community. We are currently updating our user guidelines, and this is one of the topics that will be addressed in the final version. We also reach out directly to members who repeatedly engage in this behavior to help ensure adherence to community standards.
Thanks again for bringing this to our attention and for helping us maintain a positive community experience.
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Kimberly Whitby
PMI Team Member
Online Community Specialist| PMI Newtown Square, Pa, United States
Sep 23, 2026 5:12 PM
Replying to Rami Kaibni
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Ashwin, I more or less do what you do, and it is especially challenging when one person posts four or five questions at once, resulting in newer posts getting buried within the pile. I have raised this with PMI multiple times, proposing:

1) They add to their regulations that no member is allowed to post more than one discussion question within a 24-hour period.

2) They increase the number of latest posts displayed on the main page from five to ten.

No action has been taken so far, and I doubt there will be any in the near future. It is what it is, I guess. We will just have to live with the fact that many valuable discussions could be missed.
Hi Rami - thank you for raising this concern. We are aware of this issue and have been actively monitoring it within the community. We are currently updating our user guidelines, and this is one of the topics that will be addressed in the final version. We also reach out directly to members who repeatedly engage in this behavior to help ensure adherence to community standards.
Thanks again for bringing this to our attention and for helping us maintain a positive community experience.
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1 reply by Rami Kaibni
Sep 24, 2026 12:06 AM
Rami Kaibni
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Thank you, Kimberly. I appreciate your response!
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Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Sep 23, 2026 8:48 PM
Replying to Kimberly Whitby
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Hi Rami - thank you for raising this concern. We are aware of this issue and have been actively monitoring it within the community. We are currently updating our user guidelines, and this is one of the topics that will be addressed in the final version. We also reach out directly to members who repeatedly engage in this behavior to help ensure adherence to community standards.
Thanks again for bringing this to our attention and for helping us maintain a positive community experience.
Thank you, Kimberly. I appreciate your response!
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Ashwin Kumar H M
Community Champion
Consultant| Canarys Automation Ltd Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Thanks, Kimberly Whitby and Rami Kaibni for responding.
h4Just making sure I am sharing my concern correctly - right now I see this in the landing page of Community Central - Laura's "u style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"Welcome! Introduce yourself to PMI’s Online Community" posted in /u2023, Kimberly's Instructions on how to create your PMI Community profile Kimberly Whitby · Oct 7, 2025, my reply for Am I Looking in the Right Place for Recent Community Discussions? Ashwin Kumar H M · 19 hours ago, Jenna's Project Charters and Budget Management Jenna Duxbury · Nov 18, 2024, Braulio's u style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"Career Pivot: Moving from IT to a new industry /uBraulio Rocha · Nov 16, 2025. And others. You can see the the posts I am seeing are as old as those created in 2024. This makes finding the right Thread to response very difficult. /h4Kimberly Whitby - Thanks for shairng the ongoing plan on enhancing the user experience. Will look forward to improvements in the UX.

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