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New version is up. Updating things took longer than previously: we spent the whole thursday afternoon and all until evening, and even today we had to run some things to make tag clouds right. Partly because we updated the system running underneath (Zope 2.8.7 to Zope 2.9.7 and Plone 2.5.0 to 2.5.3), partly because we had to add one little thing to every resource you have made and partly because our community has grown. And partly because we made some human errors. :)

New features and fixes:

• There should be no longer duplicate messages when editing stuff and messages are more apt.
• ‘Title clouds’ and ‘Name clouds’ where we show active people and resources bigger than inactive people or resources are now much more efficient; this means we can have put them to more prominent roles, we’re still thinking what those roles should be.
• Editing presentations should be more straightforward. It won’t ask for title and tags for every piece you upload, but the pieces inherit title and tags from presentation itself. You can of course modify them afterwards.

(Originally posted at LeMill development)

Sorry for inconvenience, as LeMill was down for hour today and yesterday. We had an exceptionally complicated update. Hopefully everything is working now.

There are good reasons for update, though:

We have rethought the browsing of LeMill resources. Now you can add criterions in a very intuitive way and limit your searches so that you’ll be able to find the relevant content faster and more reliably. We also thought forward this browsing stuff so that in future, when there are even more content it won’t slow down.

Other major thing is that members can set their subject areas. This helps people to find each other and in the future enables us to guide you to learning resources that might interest you.

One big thing that is not very visible for users, but should pay off in long term is addition of few managing tricks: those translations that get created too easily and confuse us in search results are now easier to manage and should automatically get cleaned away if they’re created by accident. Also there shouldn’t no more be ‘accidental authors’ Tarmo and Jukka — those got there when managers run their update scripts which modify resource objects a bit and then the manager got marked as a contributor. Because of these unpredictable changes our community managers have been maybe too careful, but for now on LeMill dev team tries to participate more.

Have fun and enjoy sharing and having more learning-related thingies!

(Originally posted at LeMill development)