You may notice some small changes in the Communities today.
- Discussion tabs are now selected by default. From there, you can more easily see unread posts (bold) and link directly to the last reply (last column)
- Status icons are back in threads
We are targeting another update by early next week.
We continue to experience slow performance at certain times. We're working closely with Jive to identify the root cause and resolve these issues. We have monitoring in place that will automatically restart the application when it becomes unresponsive. IE performance, both with IE6 and IE7, remains problematic. Along with overall slow behavior, the editor seems to load with difficulty. Once it loads, try clicking on the Plain Text tab and then clicking on 'Always use this editor'. The Plain Text editor may load more reliably.
Today's update. During the launch, we patched the application several times. We needed ensure our source control system was in sync with these changes and to do regression testing so that future updates would not break anything. This why you haven't seen a lot of changes this week. Today we switched to this new version of the code -- and we also slipped in those two features.
UI update. While we were waiting, we've already queued up a number of fixes, including faster CSS-based menus to replace the slow Javascript menus and many other UI changes. One of the major goals is to make IE more usable with this update. We'll be testing that build Friday but may wait until after the weekend to release.
Feature update. We also have developers working on the most important missing features from this list: VMware Communities Known Issues. We'll have a better estimate tomorrow, but I am hoping the first batch them will also appear next week.
Ongoing work. We expect to continue the bug fixes and improvements for several more weeks. After that we hope changes will happen less frequently, and we can start to experiment and learn what we can do with our new collaboration tools. See What's It All About? for more information on why we upgraded the Communities.
Good show John!
I assume it's been a few though weeks, but it's finally working as expected.
Too bad the new community site was plagued by the performance issues,
sort of took the focus away from the great new features.
Just a hint of advice for those with IE issues: Use a proper browser...
I'm using the new opera 9.5 alpha and it is much faster than IE,
especially with javascript.
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/09/28/snapshot-extravaganza