In our 5th site update of the year we made a number of enhancements to improve the performance of the site; most of this was centred around compressing CSS and delaying the loading of non-essential CSS, so pages should load faster, especially on mobile.
Behind the scenes we improved a anti-spam page which helps us find the user accounts used by spammers.. it's a lot easier for me to identify those accounts and deactivate them in a single click
The content for I'm an Engineer has now been fully migrated to element14 Community; https://www.element14.com/community/community/imanengineer
You'll now find a link to your Bookmarks in your profile menu (top of the screen); it wasn't particularly easy to find before.
Highlights
Migrate I'm an Engineer to Community
Add Image field to Design Challenges Application
Enhance registration anti-spam page to aid our anti-spam efforts
Delay loading of certain CSS to help with site performance
Performance and SEO
4 tickets (3 for compressing CSS in different areas)
Site Navigation
Separate Industrial Automation & Robotics
Move "The Ben Heck Show" into 'Resources'
+ 2 other tickets
Misc Fixes
Welcome Page video wasn't working
Fix the Product Search widget used on various supplier Overview pages
Sharing and Action links are missing for Guest users on blog posts
RoadTest icon is missing in the Small View Menu from the Create Dropdown
Email addresses with new-style domains are rejected during registration
Breadcrumbs for sub-spaces aren't correct when viewing content
Buy Now links in Design Center don't work when multi-part links are also used on the page
Pressing Delete a lot in site Search generates multiple captions that fill the results box
+ 1 other fix
Anti-spam
User de-activation via on Recent Users page was often failing.. now fixed
Allow anti-spam user deactivation to handle more content types
Misc Improvements
Make My Bookmarks/Likes Easier to Find (it's now an option in your Profile down-down at the top of the screen)
Contestants widget improvements
Tidy up the display of the Category list when editing content (CSS)
Allow Design Center Buy Now links to be opened in new tab
Display the Follow button for logged out users
Design Center product pages were using old widget styling
+ 2 other improvements
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