Spiceworks Community Release Notes

Sean-Spiceworks · 2020-12-03T19:31:38.000Z

3 Dec 2020 @ 1:37 PM CDT

Surfaced the option to compare products in the (sub)category listing of review pages ( see example ). Full announcement coming Soon™.

Sean-Spiceworks · 2020-12-07T21:32:02.000Z

7 Dec 2020 @ 2:02 PM CDT

Fixed an issue where a group’s stats page would not load if it referenced a canceled member’s account.
Fixed an issue where a member’s user history page (something site admins use) would error out due to missing data.

Sean-Spiceworks · 2020-12-08T19:51:14.000Z

8 Dec 2020 @ 1:02 PM CDT

Updated leaderboard and sidebar ads to have a minimum height value to lessen the “jump” when an ad loads on a topic.

Sean-Spiceworks · 2020-12-11T16:48:21.000Z

11 Dec 2020 @ 11:04 AM CDT

Updated the backend user management page (used by site admins) to be able to update and remove old location data (from the old profile system)

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-01-05T17:15:03.000Z

5 Jan 2021 @ 11:15 AM CT

Fixed an issue where review badges did not move to the new profile when merging a Spiceworks Community Account.
Removed the map from SpiceCorps meet-ups that displayed a member’s general location. Note, this does not remove the location map for an event.

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-01-11T19:52:41.000Z

11 Jan 2021 @ 1:59 PM CT

Fixed an issue where the inverted caret on some navigation elements was not appearing beside the words but rather beneath them. Special thanks to @jimender2 for pointing this issue out to us!
Updated the main page of a review page to denote a (soft) deleted review for administrators.

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-01-21T16:26:45.000Z

21 Jan 2021 @ 10:17 AM CT

Fixed an issue where logged-in members were seeing the desktop version of the community navigation instead of the mobile version. Special spicy shout-out to @clutka , @jimender2 , and @kambwili for helping us identify why this issue was occurring.

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-03-30T14:14:14.000Z

30 Mar 2021 @ 11:11 AM CT

Fixed an issue where comments to How-Tos were only visible for someone using a mobile device while logged out.

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-04-14T17:12:51.000Z

14 Apr 2021 @ 12:01 PM CT

Fixed an issue where, in some situations, bad date would cause a break when trying to update reader events which would result in an error when attempting to save a Project on your profile.

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-04-16T18:31:47.000Z

16 Apr 2021 @ 2:49 PM CT

Fixed an issue that caused topics that were trying to load the Research Guide tag to display a 500 error.

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-04-22T16:18:16.000Z

22 Apr 2021 @ 11:18 AM CT

DoctorDNS · 2021-04-22T17:24:48.000Z

Sean (Spiceworks):

22 Apr 2021 @ 11:18 AM CT

Fully remove the “Fast Answers” feature from the Spiceworks Community.

A great idea. Sadly the implementation was not as good.

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-05-12T17:45:07.000Z

12 May 2021 @ 10:36 AM CT

Updated our search and analytics engine to a (much) newer version (went from v2.x to v5.x). [ More info ]

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-06-07T16:09:12.000Z

7 Jun 2021 @ 12:54 PM CT

Updated the welcome message on the join the community modal to say “Welcome to your professional IT and technology network.” instead of simply “Create account with Spiceworks”.
Various backend updates were done to the image and attachment system for topics and the microsite feature.

Robert762 · 2021-06-07T16:57:40.000Z

Would it help to add to that line with something along the lines of if you are not an IT Pro, then join Yahoo Answers instead?

Briser-fae-the-broch · 2021-06-08T08:25:26.000Z

Robert762:

Would it help to add to that line with something along the lines of if you are not an IT Pro, then join Yahoo Answers instead?

How about a line like from Taken? “If you are not an IT Pro, … we will find you, … and we will kill … your account”

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-06-10T16:44:37.000Z

10 Jun 2021 @ 1:26 PM CT

Updated the logic behind search results to adjust the “weight” in regards to recency and relevancy; i.e., you shouldn’t see as many blog articles from 10 years ago at the top of the search results
Various backend updates were done to the image and attachment system for How-Tos and Shared Ticket features.

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-06-15T16:04:22.000Z

15 Jun 2021 @ 11:23 AM CT

A handful of patch updates to our underlying server-side web application framework for the Spiceworks Community.

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-06-15T18:55:38.000Z

15 Jun 2021 @ 3:48 PM CT

Fixed an issue where the search on the Daily Challenge moderation dashboard was not filtering results based on keywords.

Special thanks to @coltsfanmn for catching and reporting this one!

Sean-Spiceworks · 2021-08-09T14:41:12.000Z

9 Aug 2021 @ 10:29 AM CT

Upgraded one of the programming languages the Community is built upon from 2.5.8 all the way up to 2.7.4 (big jump!).