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Yes, we have a winner for the Profile Image + Avatar Drawing!! And the winner is....

(drum roll)

TristanT

Congratulations, Tristan! I am now sending you a US$50 iTunes gift card that you can redeem for $50 of goodies from www.itunes.com. Enjoy!

A big thank you to the 140 people who have uploaded both a profile image and an avatar (and were in the drawing), as well as the additional 300+ people who have one or the other but not both (and therefore didn't qualify for the drawing -- but I thank you anyway!). I encourage every VMware Communities member to upload at least one image, so that people can learn a bit more about you.

And thanks to the Web site http://www.random.org for generating a true random number -- no pseudo-random numbers used here -- for the drawing.

Regards, Robert (see Upload a Profile Image + Avatar, and Win! for drawing details)

Here's an update on the status of the user experience fixes we're working on.

We deployed fixes for the following:

1. Errors when editing documents: Can no longer edit documents?
   1. Deployed two weeks ago.
2. Display avatars on threads:
   1. Deployed today.
3. Display helpful / correct answers in threads: Cannot tell what replies are marked correct or helpful.
   1. Deployed today.
4. Make new private messages easier to find: Notification of PMs
   1. Deployed today.

We are continuing to work on the following in this order:

1. IE6 errors on "All Communities" dropdowns: in IE 6 "all communities" dropdown is not clickable
2. Wider view area for threads: Please make the thread posting area wider!
   1. We are working on some JavaScript so that you can expand the thread view to cover the right column. This gives 30% more area to view threads while allowing us to keep the fixed width, which allows us to provide more consistency for the site across browsers and display sizes.
3. Truncated names: Shortened logins on forum
   1. Names will still be truncated on community pages, but they will not be truncated in places where there's plenty of space to show the whole name, e.g. on user profile pages.

In addition to the above, we are also working on a new "My Communities" function, which many community members have requested. I'll update on this blog once we have a design and schedule, but we are working on it as we get the above changes in place.

We are also investigating users not always receiving email notifications for thread updates and private messages.

Regards, Robert