Hi everyone,
Our developers have been working hard on making improvements to the community. We have several fixes that are now live on the site.
1) You do not need to be a member to reply to a group
Many of our community members are proactive in supporting others across the site. Now you no longer need to be a member of a group to post a response. We hope this will allow everyone to continue to support others whilst not having to be subscribed to every group on the site.
Please note this only applies to public groups. For groups that require you to request membership, you still need to be a member to reply.
2) You can now control your email subscriptions for groups
To access this, go to the group you wish to control and click on any discussion within that group and look on the right hand side for the discussion tools tab:
From here you can select whether you wish to receive emails notifications for group activity or not.
We are going to build upon this feature, however we have released this as some people have been experiencing difficulties in turning email subscriptions on and off for groups.
3) View a list of your blogs
Some community members have several blogs, now if you click on My Account > Blog Posts you can view these along with your most recent blog posts. All of your blogs will appear in a bullet point list:
We will be building upon this feature and improve signposting on the page itself in the meantime.
Next month we will be releasing a collection of fixes which will improve the accessibility of the site, addressing many of the issues you have highlighted to us. Thank you for all your patience and feedback, it has been useful for us in finding out what parts of the new site you like and what parts you are less keen on. Please keep this feedback coming to the community email address or comment on this post!
Take care,
James
