Monique vdB Community Manager

Let's keep the party going with our Friday Fun in the new year! Friday, January 4: @zack Friday, January 11: @[deleted] Friday, January 25: @Tom Lister Friday, February 1: @Larry Brock _Praecipio_ Friday, February 8: @Karen O'Keefe Friday, February 15: @[deleted] Friday, February 22: @Thomas Schlegel Friday, March…

Release notes courtesy of @Tyler T, and a special shoutout to Tyler, our designer@Test User KL, and @Scott Grieder for being instrumental in bringing our new homepage redesign to you! * New: Homepage refresh for community members (aka logged-in users)* Your personalized feed that is saved for you on the homepage - always…

Time to roll the Friday fun thread! Friday, October 12: @Erica_Garcia Friday, October 19: @jndeverteuil Friday, October 26: @Michele Lim [cPrime] Friday, November 2: @Mesut Yilmazyildirim Friday, November 9: @Kat Warner Friday, November 16: @[deleted] Friday, November 23: @[deleted] Friday, November 30: @[deleted] Friday,…

Hi all! We’re making some updates to how we handle accounts at Atlassian and community will be impacted. Here’s an overview of the changes: The Atlassian account profile is changing to include more granular privacy controls. As a part of that change, community will no longer use the ‘Full name’ field. The ‘Public name’…

Aloha, friends! 🌺 And welcome to another edition of community release notes. Thank you to our community experience team who is, as always, a delight. In today's release: Fixed: Fixed a bug that stopped users from being able to watch individual threads 👀 Fixed: The dreaded “yellow sidebar” that some users were seeing should…

Here’s what happened in May: thousands of you earned the Merry May badge. Thousands! I have faith that you can all repeat this feat in June. This month’s challenge is to post in at least 25 discussion threads, with a max of five per day. This means you can post in as many discussion threads as you like -- and I hope you…

We have a new challenge badge launching today! Opsgenie in a bottle, baby... To earn this badge head over to the Opsgenie collection and read the instructions posted by the delightful @Kate Clavet-D_Amelio. Here's your chance to learn more (or share your knowledge) about one of the newest additions to the Atlassian product…

Thank you to our experience team, as per always, for their hard work. (Here is a visual representation of the team: 👩🏼‍💻🕵🏻‍♂️ 🏃🏻‍♂️💃🏽🧜🏻‍♀️👨🏼‍💻😇🤴🏻🧚🏻‍♀️) New: You can now see who has liked a post, not just how many people have liked it. Our friend @Tyler T started this project as a ShipIt, and we've finally shipped it thanks…

Summit is amazing and often overwhelming, and no two people have the same experience. For this task, I invite you to write a post (or post in the thread below) reflecting on what you got out of this year's Summit. I started writing this prompt and it turned into a poem so I went with it. Need inspiration? here you go: Who…

A small but mighty update today, thank you as always to our community experience team! New: The image for the new Community Leader badge has been uploaded, and you'll see the badge itself roll out over the next day or so. It's pretty! New: Thanks to @Daniel Eads, you can now use the URL atlassian.community to get here.…

I am obsessed with goals, checklists, and to-do lists, and always looking for ways to optimize my life. For this scavenger hunt task, attend a talk in the Personal and Work Productivity track and give me your top takeaway! Help me be more productive! :)

Our next challenge badge is called the Summit Scavenger Hunter. And you can earn it through the end of April, whether or not you attend Summit! At Summit, you can chat with fellow community members, Champions and Leaders, Atlassian product teams, and the community team itself. If you’re attending, you will need to fulfill…

The Atlassian Community is hosting industry user group meetups at Summit! To check off this scavenger hunt task: * Attend one of our user meetups * Join the online group for your industry * Post a discussion in that online group! * Link to it below For 1,000,0005 bonus points: * Volunteer to help moderate your industry's…

Happy March, aka my birthday month and my two-year Atlassianiversary. So of course, this month's challenge is to send me a present! 🎉 Okay, I'm kidding. This is Badge-Me March, and your challenge is to level up or earn any other community badge and then tell us about it in this thread. Meta! If you want to take a look at…

We released some things over the past week, and here I am to tell you all about them! New: Community Champions and AUG Leaders are now part of the same program, and are called Community Leaders. 🎉You will see their new lozenges around the site! For more about this change, read Stephanie's announcement here. Coming Soon: A…

Can you believe it's been two years already? Just trying to think about highlights from the past year has me feeling overwhelmed. Do we try to put numbers to it? Do we give out a badge for it? Do we talk about everything we've launched and released, the magic moments we've had, all our new groups, the amazing three-things…

In honor of our community's one-year anniversary on April 3, this month's challenge is our anniversary challenge, aka the April Showers badge. To earn the April badge, shower the community with love! (Yes, I think our resident pun-master @Bridget did come up with that one.) To earn this badge: * Give at least 30 likes *…

It's time for another installment of community release notes! We've got new goodies from our developers, our designers, our community team, and even our product teams this time around! 🎉 New: Brand new users now earn a "Level 0" badge; it's our way of saying welcome! Here is a happy little circle! New: Speaking of happy…

It's May, it's May, the lovely month of May. And it's time for another monthly challenge! This month's challenge: visit the community at least 20 times during the month of May. (No, logging in and out 20 times or hitting F5 to refresh your browser will not count. Each visit has to be on a separate day.) This month's badge…

And now, the latest and greatest in community release notes! Thanks to all our developers for their notes and hard work. ❤️ Fixed: We fixed a bug that happened when a user clicked on one of the suggested questions in the create form. It used to prepopulate the subject field of the user's question with that same text. No…

We love February! And this month, our badge challenge is love-themed. Share your app love story on this thread to earn the badge. #Add yourself to the #HugOps map here to earn the badge -- and get a free poster! Or stay tuned for more lovely challenges in the days to come. Oh, and make sure you click like on at least 10…

"Hey Monique, it's been a while since you published my favorite feature of all time, community release notes. What's up with that?" Well, the wait is over, because we have amazing new features releasing today, and release notes courtesy of our developer @mattjared. Yay! New: The "Create" button is now the "Ask the…

I bet you saw this one coming. It's September and it's time for Summit Europe! And I can never resist alliteration! So Summit September it is. The most exciting way to earn this badge is live and in person. Come to the Community booth at Summit, get some swag, say hello to us, and post a picture of yourself at the booth,…