Community Server 2008, Beta 2 now available!
Posted by
rhoward
on
March 26 2008
Community Server 2008, beta 2 is now available!
Let us know what you think - share your feedback.
Some highlights for this beta 2 release:
The beta includes the new Community Server 2008 theme "Hawaii" which introduces and showcases many of the great new Community Server 2008 capabilities including the new user home page that provides a summary of what is happening in the community. Now when you are signed in to Community Server your start page has a summary of what's happening and what your friends are doing:
We've also re-worked much of how the forums work. Conversations are bubbled to the top and a directory style display is used for browsing discussions. This makes browsing and following a variety of conversations a lot easier:
The media gallery includes built-in players and viewers for content. For example, Flash video files published into the media gallery can easily be played inline with no additional configuration. We've also built-in support for popular media sites such as YouTube, making it super-simple to embed content hosted on YouTube directly into the media gallery:
Widget support is fully integrated with the Hawaii theme allowing you to fully customize what is shown in the side-bars of your site as well as the order in which they are shown. Additionally support for Google Gadgets, SpringWidgets, and WidgetBox widgets. For example, you can add the Super Mario widget to your blog!
You'll also find some new additions to the user profile page, including an activity list, an announcements 'blog', and a wall feature where people can post notes to you:
All-in-all there are a lot of exciting new things in this beta of Community Server! We look forward to hearing your feedback!