Community News

These news items are generated and published by Macmillan's Online Community Team. In this section you’ll find some posts written by the Online Community team in partnership with our Cancer Information Development team. We also feature personal stories from our members.

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  • What's next for the Online Community?

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    On the 29th July this year, we upgraded our Community platform. Since then, we have been working hard on fixing technical issues and bugs, and continuing to improve the site. Today, we’re sharing some information on what’s next on our ‘to do’ list, and talking about some of the improvements we’re focusing on next.

    On the Community, we’ve been through a lot of change over the last few months…

  • Community upgrade: an update for members

    On 29th July, we launched an upgrade of our Community site. The changes we have made are to ensure that the Community is working on a much more stable platform so that our users encounter less technical issues and that we can grow and develop the Community in a safe and well-supported way.

    We are not where we had hoped to be since launching the upgrade. We are working through a list of bugs and issues which we did not…

  • Look out for our improvements!

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    It’s been a little while since we last posted about our plans for improving the site. In today’s news blog, we’re telling you about five improvements which will be coming to the site within the next few weeks. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment in the comments section below and one of the team will get back to you.

    ‘Latest’ hyperlink in forums

    First up, we have the ‘Latest…