Summer Roundup: Public Meetings, Wikipedia Article, Block Documentation
“what’s left of summer” by Bùi Linh Ngân on flickr (cc) Welcome to the fall semester! The Commons team enjoyed the summer, but we’ve also been working hard to get ready for another busy school year. Here are just a few highlights! Public Meetings Last year, we held our first Open Community Meeting to better…
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The Importance of Two-Factor Authentication
Credit: Niels Andersen on Flickr (cc) Our development team is spending the early part of 2025 making a series of under-the-hood improvements to our two-factor authentication (2FA) platform. We wanted to take the opportunity to summarize our 2FA features and why you should consider enabling them on your Commons account, if you haven’t already. For…
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Commons 2.5: Registration, Reimagined
Happy holidays, Commons community! After we closed out our major redesign project with the overhaul of Groups last spring, we turned our attention in the fall of 2024 to the registration process. Now that we’ve completed our hosting migration, we’re excited to release these changes to all of you. Though longtime users may not have…
Hosting Migration Complete!
We are very pleased to announce that the Commons has fully migrated to Reclaim Hosting. If you’re reading this, you’re enjoying the Commons in its new home!
Hosting Migration Downtime
The hosting migration that we announced last month will begin at 10:30am Eastern on Wednesday, January 15th. Because of the size and complexity of the data involved, please expect the Commons to be unavailable for 48-72 hours after the migration starts.
Scheduled Weekend Downtime
We wanted to let our users know that the Commons will be unavailable starting at 8am Eastern this Sunday, December 22nd and will be back online by 12pm, though it may be restored sooner.
Hosting Upgrade and First Commons Open Community Meeting
With the end of the year fast approaching, we’re pleased to announce the final stages of a project many months in the making – in mid-January 2025, the Commons will migrate to Reclaim Hosting.
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Commons 2.4: Groups, Our Redesign Finale
Just over two years ago, with our 2.0 release of an overhauled homepage, we began to steadily revamp the look of the Commons. As we launch a new Groups experience today, every major area of the site now utilizes the modern and streamlined design we introduced in spring 2022. The full suite of Groups features,…
Commons 2.3: The CV, Your New Professional Homepage
It’s a new year, and we’re thrilled to kick it off by unveiling a big new feature. Today, we say goodbye to the traditional Commons Profile and hello to the Commons CV! The CV (curriculum vitae) is a versatile, visually compelling public landing page available to every Commons member. Using intuitive and customizable editing tools,…
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Commons 2.2: Revamped Settings and Inbox
Welcome to fall, Commons community, and an eventful release season for our team! Since our January 2023 release of new About and Activity pages with a streamlined top navigation, the Commons team has been hard at work on a complex set of upgrades that required a longer-than-usual development cycle this past spring and summer. Now,…
Commons 2.1: Activity and Events at a Glance
We’re excited to begin a new year and a new semester with a cleaner main menu and several important new ways to jump into everything happening on the Commons. Last spring, we brought the key elements of our homepage redesign to our top-level People, Groups, Sites, and Courses directories. We’re now launching overhauled Events, Activity…
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New WordPress Themes Now Available
This month we deprecated a number of older, rarely-used themes and added seven modern and exciting ones. The Commons tries to limit WordPress theme choices to around 50 themes so that our Dev team can more easily manage their updates and monitor any vulnerabilities. If you have a particular theme you want, we can install…
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