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04 January 2007
Site Upgrade and Downtime

Yesterday I posted that the site will be upgraded today. However the upgrade will only start tomorrow (2007/03/04) at 15h00. Just a note that the site might be offline for a couple of hours while the upgrade is in progress. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live... Read More...

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25 July 2006
Site Upgrade

Kudos to the team at Telligent for a great job done with Community Server 2.1. Upgrading this site this evening was a very smooth ride. The biggest issue was in fact a problem between user and keyboard, for a couple of minutes I was really confused as the same old posts kept on showing up in the main... Read More...

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24 July 2006
Community Server 2.1

There's a Community Server 2.1 Beta 1 installation available on http://beta.dotnet.org.za for registered users to test. It's running on an older database so feel free to mess around as we'll be dropping that site once the new site is up. If you're using a customized skin it might also be a good idea... Read More...

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18 July 2006
Community Server 2.1 Beta 1

Telligent announced the availability of CS 2.1 Beta 1 a couple of days ago. One of the new features are the much awaited Tags as seen on http://weblogs.asp.net . Other new features: Blog Mirrors – Blog mirroring enables the creation of a blog that mirrors (through RSS) the content from any RSS source... Read More...

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16 April 2006
Blog Creation

Thanks to Michael Trefry's updated Trefry.CS package automatic blog and gallery creation is enabled again. New users can choose to create a blog and/or a gallery during registration and existing users can create blogs and galleries from their profile page (Accessible by clicking on your username top... Read More...

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25 March 2006
Site Moving - Downtime

Please note that there will be some downtime later this afternoon (17h00 - 23h00 GMT+2) while this site and database is moved to it's new home on a shiny new server at Voxrox . We will update this server with a notice should you still hit this server while waiting for the DNS changes to propagate over... Read More...

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20 February 2006
Community Server RTM

I've upgraded the site to the final version of Community Server 2.0 tonight. The upgrade went really smooth and apart from some legacy issues from the betas all functionality should now be functioning. Let me rephrase the really smooth statement above, the upgrade itself went really well but my iBurst... Read More...

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13 February 2006
Community Server 2.0 RC1

Community Server 2.0 RC 1 has been released for download. I downloaded the drop a little earlier and upgraded an installation on my local machine and it looks really good. (First thing I checked was the delete post bug and that was sorted out) (While testing the upgrade I was logged in to the local instance... Read More...

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06 February 2006
Forums & Reader

We've expanded the forums to include sections on WinFX, Mobility and a couple of others. You can view the new forums here . Please let us know which other forums we should add/leave out. Some other additional features that has been enabled is the Feed Reader for registered users. Subscribe to and read... Read More...

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25 January 2006
Community Server 2.0 Beta 3 Upgrade

I've upgraded this site to Community Server 2.0 Beta 3 tonight. It took a bit longer than expected so below is a list of known issues after the upgrade: In this version the bug when deleting blog posts, articles or other items is still present. As a temporay workaround untick the published option. Automatic... Read More...

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25 January 2006
Site Upgrade - CS Beta 3

Community Server Beta 3 was made available for download last night. As such the site will be down for maintenance for a short while tonight while the upgrade from Beta 2 is in progress. More information available here and Community Server Docs now available here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark... Read More...

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06 January 2006
Community Server Upgrade

Just a little heads-up this down about a platform upgrade happening in the next couple of days. The site is to be upgraded from Community Server 1.1 to Community Server 2.0. Basically what this means is a much improved blog admin experience and we'll also be adding some forums and newsgroups for discussions... Read More...

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06 May 2005
Service Unavailable

Yesterday afternoon our hosting company, for the second time this week, shut down the server hosting the blogs due to excessive bandwidth usage. This was done without prior notification so we're a “bit” p'd off about it. We will discuss possible solutions to avoid this happening again. A... Read More...

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