Forum stability and performance have continued again this week at acceptable levels most of the time.
We are still planning to implement clustering on the application, which will allow us to increase the amount of processing power to the application, increase the size of the caches, and make single-node restarts in the cluster transparent to users (since the other node will handle the traffic). All of this is expected to make noticeable improvements for visitors to VMware Communities. We will roll out the clustered implementation next week, i.e. the first week of December.
At the same time, we will also roll out the 2-column layout for VMware Communities that is described in VMware Communities Proposed Homepage Design along with community feedback in Homepage Design Proposal. The 2-column layout is meant to offer better navigation, better readability, and an appropriate emphasis on the community content.
