Community Server 2.1 (aka, Johnny) has finally been released.
Improvements to existing Features
- New blogs skins - some professionally design blog skins to help make your blog stand-out.
- Improved Editor - simple to use WYSIWYG editor.
- Improved blog authoring experience - simplified workflow for creating, editing, and saving posts.
- Improved comment editing/management tools for blogs - designed to help you edit and manage a large number of comments quickly.
- Better SPAM Protection - changes to the built-in spam rules to more effectively deal with spam.
- New reports - new reports for a variety of statistics maintained by the Community Server database.
- Per-post answer status -allows users to track answer status on a per-post level for forum posts.
- Better fixed-width support - design changes to enable better support for fixed width sites.
New Features
- Tags - ability to add free form tags to content and then use tag clouds and other tools to filter content.
- Content Mirroring - ability to configure a blog to be subscribed to one or more external RSS sources bringing that content into the site for visitors and making the content searchable.
- Post Relevance sorting - allows site owners to use new post relevance algorithm (optional) for blog aggregation page. This feature allows popular content to stay “above the fold” longer.
- Invitations - ability to configure site so that only invited users can join the community
- Badges - members of the site each receive a community badge that can easily be displayed in a variety of locations, such as external blogs.
- Feedburner / external RSS support - easily use tools, such as Feedburner, for sharing your RSS feeds on blogs.
- Runs in Medium Trust - better support for hosting organizations that want to run ASP.NET applications in a reduced trust level.
Work on v.Next (aka chameleon) which features a brand new skinning engine is already underway.»
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