Monique vdB Community Manager

Have you ever been to a virtual or in-person Atlassian Community Event? Are you ACE-curious? Before we get into the badges, check out Meetups All Year to learn more about what ACEs are, and learn why you may want to attend one of these free, fun, swag-filled events. Explore ACEs and find your local chapter here. The Save…

Hello, friends! If you're an Atlassian Partner or a user of apps, powerups, and integrations - or just curious about it all, we have a new group called App Central made for you! We've kicked off the group with a comprehensive guide for Atlassian Partners to get the most out of the community experience, as well as a…

Welcome to App Central! This space is for everyone in the Atlassian Community to connect around apps and power-ups for Atlassian products. And we have a few kudos badges rolling out to help encourage great conversation in this space. 🤩 Our first badge is called Appy Talk, and awards 250 kudos points and an exclusive badge…

Welcome to the first Community release notes of 2024! After a short break the team is back energized, focused, and ready to ship you a whole bunch of goodies. The HUGE news You may have been impacted by the recent issue where community emails were being marked as spam. A fix for that issue is rolling out this week,…

What's happening? We will be merging the Confluence Cloud collection into the Confluence collection. We're targeting the end of March to finalize this change. Why are we doing this? Because having two collections for Confluence is redundant! Having a single collection will allow you to see all Confluence Q&A in the same…

The Community Advisory Board was founded in 2017 to give our Community Leaders a stronger voice on the Atlassian Community team. Here is the update covering 2020, the 2021 report, and the 2022 report. Once again, we are here to share a bit about this incredible group and take a look back at what they accomplished last…

If you've read the community release notes, you may have already seen seen these updates, but just in case (and given our email issues - now resolved!) I wanted to also announce them here. New: If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the quarterly leaderboard, you can see your current quarterly points balance. That will…

December always feels like a great time to reflect on the year past and gear up for the year ahead. And so for the month of December, we're giving everyone a chance to do just that: we're going to Wave Goodbye to 2023 with another ocean cleanup! Tell us your favorite community moments of 2023! Was it an amazing post you…

Thanks to everyone who participated in Wave Goodbye and helped us remove 980 pounds of plastic from the ocean! The Tracker has been updated, and keep an eye out for the next initiative!

There are lots of ways to measure impact from the past year. In addition to our quarterly Leaders of the Pack (coming soon), we wanted to slice and dice the data a little more and shout out the very best of the best in 2024. If you’ve made it onto any of these lists, a Best of the Best badge is coming your way to thank you…

 Happy new year, friends!For the first time, we’re awarding a Kudos badge based on an action you can take in one of our products, Atlas! 🤯 All you have to do is log into Atlas with the same account you use for community, and create a new project. You’ll earn the Atlas Kickoff badge and 200 Kudos points. Plus, the new year…

The day is here! It's June 8 in Sydney which means it's time for World Oceans Day! You can earn the Ocean Devotion badge up to 100 times on World Oceans Day and remove 100 pounds of ocean plastic by liking any post or giving kudos to any user. Why not start by checking out the previous post with ways to remove some bonus…

It’s the end of an era, as we are working to retire the “Community” section of our badge tab on your profile. These type of badges will now live in the Kudos program with their badge friends. (No changes are planned to our Role badges or our various badge series, like the Accepted Solutions series. The only change to…

Hi Data Center friends - This is a brief "in case you missed it" message. We have discovered four critical vulnerabilities impacting Data Center customers and necessitating immediate action. Here is the post with all the details. I'm turning off comments here so we can keep them consolidated on the main post. Feel free to…

Happy Monday! Time for another set of release notes to fly free. Fixed: Has your activity feed looked a little weird lately? We fixed a bug where the system was re-sending a notification that something was posted instead of notifying you to replies in the post. You may want to look around to make sure you haven't missed…

This is gonna be an exciting quarter! Way to go @Bill Sheboy and @Brant Schroeder 😄

If you're a member of the Kudos program, you may have already noticed the "Take my JSM Upvote" repeatable badge. This badge is mutually rewarding: you help recognize a member who is sharing useful knowledge with the community, and you get points for each upvote (up to five times per day). To begin, join Kudos (if you…

No matter where you are on your Atlassian journey, we bet you know enough to answer a question or two. And all you need to do to earn the Answerer badge is to answer a couple of questions! Here are some handy resources: The Community Leaders guide to A+ answers A feed of all unanswered questions Mythbusters: I'm too new to…

Welcome back to another edition of community release notes, for the latest and greatest happenings on the community and beyond. Congratulations: to the Atlassian Community for planting 30,000 trees on the online community during Likes for Trees II! I am thrilled to announce the Atlassian Foundation has matched our entire…

Hello community! We are sunsetting the Adaptavist collection, and its Q&A content will move into the main Apps and Integrations collection, while discussions and articles will move to our new partner hub, App Central! Let's break it down: Sunsetting this collection We've discussed with our Community Leader @Nic Brough…

Hello and welcome! This is a roundup of the resources we have to help you navigate the community: * Community guidelines: These are our rules of engagement, aka how to make sure your account doesn't get suspended or banned. Start here! * FAQ: Covers frequently asked questions about the community and how it works. This…

We have a new challenge badge launching today: time for a Group Hug! To earn this badge, be a member of at least three of our groups and participate in at least one of them on an ongoing basis. (Or participate in all three, a little bit each. All your group posts count towards this badge.) * We have groups for Community…

You may remember "Super Grouper" as one of our monthly challenge badges. We've started retiring the monthly challenge badges, and some of them will reappear as new, permanent badges: like this one! This is the sequel to the Group Hug badge and because it's a permanent badge, it's also more advanced! To earn this badge, you…

Announcing some new badges for you to earn for DevOps, New to Jira, and the community Bookmark feature. Check them out! Earn 100 points and the limited-time DevOps Story Teller Badge in the DevOps group. From now on, you can also earn 10 points and the DevOps Smooth Operator Badge when you comment on a #devops-story…

Hello, community! Today we have another batch of community release notes, fresh from the oven. Don't forget to create a search alert or subscribe to announcement articles so you never miss a thing from Team Atlassian. New: Rising Stars will now automatically be granted article-writing permissions, and be qualified to join…

Hello, community! As those of you who have been following our Likes for Trees progress already know, we have just crossed a major milestone: we've planted over 20,000 trees so far in places like Brazil, Nepal, Indonesia and Kenya (vote here). But the big news is.... 1 click = 2 trees? 🌳🌳 The Atlassian Foundation will be…

Thank you to everyone who participated in Ocean Devotion on World Oceans Day! We partnered with Ocean Blue Cleanup to remove plastic debris from the oceans, and here are the final results. First: We met our goal of 5,000 completions, and 5,000 pounds of plastic removed. 🎉 It was fun to watch the number of available…

I'm guessing many of you have noticed by now I truly love the moments when I get to celebrate the amazing people who comprise the Atlassian Community. And this is one of those moments! It's time to award the Random Acts of Community badge to those users who helped make the community a little brighter this month. When a new…