This week we deployed our last site update of 2017.. this year has flown by! Here are the highlights from the release We've added a new consumer (i.e. non-business) purchase option for UK-based members. ForThings.io carry products aimed at ...
At midday UK time (12 GMT) today our network team activated a feature called HTTP/2 (or h2 for short) for our Community website. You might notice pages loading slightly faster than they did before. There shouldn't be any other differences. Hit ...
This week we deployed our first regular update to the site since the platform upgrade last month. It contained a lot of fixes (including the issues with the Inbox which a number of members contacted us about). There will be another site update l...
For the last 4 months we've been busy working on upgrading the platform that Community runs on. For those of you who are interested, it's been upgraded from Jive 8 to Jive 9. Although the process was nowhere near as complicated as our previou...
Good afternoon, element14 community members! This Friday, September 22nd at 5:00PM CDT (11:00PM BST) we'll be upgrading the community platform to Jive 9. Woohoo! What to Expect: The maintenance/downtime is expected to last approximately 4-5...
Platform Upgrade News This is our last site update before we embark on a platform upgrade to Jive 9. However, early indications are that the upgrade from Jive 8 to Jive 9 will be nowhere near as complicated as our previous upgrades have been. In...
So, taking a digital page out of mcollinge's book, I want to start giving regular "status updates" regarding the community and what I've been up to. Realistically some of things will be less concrete or exciting than a Dev Update, b...
In our second site update of the year, we've been doing a lot of work behind the scenes, so the release might look a bit lighter on the ground compared to previous updates. We're also planning our next big platform upgrade; work on that starts in Apr...
This is our first site update of 2017. It was deployed last night and updates the underlying platform to the latest version, with over 100 fixes by the vendor. As well as that, our team implemented 42 fixes and improvements to the code that makes ele...
It's been a while since I posted some site update blog posts; I've actually missed a couple we did in 2016, so here's what we updated in December.. our last update of 2016! Highlights We've switched the live chat provider from Live Person t...
It's been a while since I posted some site update blog posts; I've actually missed a couple we did in 2016, so here's what we updated in October. New Features / Highlights Status Update widget for the homepageRe-position the Star Ratings fe...
Observations on point accumulation by the top 60 members in Element 14Back in October of 2015 Element 14 announced its first Hertz level member, who, at the time, was mcb1. The Hertz level starts at 100,000 points, which in the Element14 commun...
Our 7th site update of the year was deployed on Tuesday night. Here are the highlights; Jive 8.0.4.0 underlying platform upgrade. This contains a load of core bug fixes from Jive.MicroPolls can be added to your content.. you can read more about ...
Last night we deployed our 6th update of the year to the element14 Community site. As ever, thank you to our members for all the great suggestions and bug reports.. we try to look into every problem & assess every idea. Lots of the items below ar...
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 mobi...
Is it June already??! In our 4th site update of the year (which went live on Tuesday night), we've got some nice improvements for mobile / touch-based devices, and a whole host of other fixes & enhancements across the site. The main menu now...
Our 3rd update of the year updates the core platform to the latest version, which contains 189 fixes/improvements by the platform vendor. On top of that, our development team has been busy improving and fixing the functionality we layer on top of the...
In last week's site update we deployed more fixes and improvements, and we made sure we sorted out video uploads and switched to a new HTML5-first player.. meaning no more Flash! New features / Highlights Switch the Brightcove video pla...
We've had a response from our search team about some of the complaints we've had about searching on the transactional site. We’ve been receiving some excellent feedback from you all on our new parametric search page. It’s a big step forwar...
In January we upgraded the site to the latest version of the platform we use (Jive). That was a massive undertaking for the team, and we've been pleased with how it's been received by our members, as well as how the site performed during the recent R...
We know there are a few issues with video publishing on the Community site since the upgrade, and those are in hand. We've also listened to Community feedback on the video player that's used on the site. There were a couple of things we focussed on;&...
Q: Does element14 have an application for my mobile device?A: No, we have removed our mobile apps due to our optimization of the element14 Community mobile browser experience to be fully responsive on any device. Please visit www.element14.com/commun...
Greetings and Salutations! It's been awhile since we posted anything to the new features blog. We've not had a regular release for quite a long time, but that's because we've been working on another major upgrade to the site. We...
The web analytics software that we use on Community gives us a lot of anonymous data that helps us design features & make sure they work properly for a majority of our members. For example, it shows us that most people use Google Chrome (52%), so...
