Community release notes for February 26th, 2024

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New

Okay ya’ll, this is an exciting one! The Communi-team has been on a mission to improve this experience for some time now and we’re ready to share… Auto-enroll for Kudos has begun (incrementally) rolling out! Auto-enroll will include existing members who are not enrolled in Kudos and all new members moving forward. Let’s say it together - ONE LESS STEP, ONE LESS STEP!

OG’s might recall that when you joined Kudos a modal would be displayed. With the update to auto-enrollment we brought this back to help provide newbies with all the information on our Kudos program.

In case you didn't have a chance to see this in action here's what it looks like:

Improved

The illustrious @Bill Sheboy brought attention to some… unexpected behavior with the update to the uniformity of notifications in the last release. Notifications were out there just doing their own thing vs displaying in chronological order. Confusing! Now, I don’t want to play favorites but Community engineer @Jessica Zeng is pretty dang awesome. Yes, that was it, just, she's awesome. Okay FINE, I'll expand on that sentence, Jessica quickly identified their misbehavior (she wants to know who let them eat sugar btw) and gave them a good talking to. They're properly admonished and behaving in chronological order again.

Yet another reason to stan the fabulous Jessica, while she was handling our little delinquents she made an improvement so they're in an easier to read format: February 27 2024 12:00 PM (Mm/DD/YYYY [timestamp]).

Show your appreciation for these two Community all stars by gifting Kudos love!

Updated

Atlassians use the announcements area to community high priority information (updates, events, outages, etc) to members. This release contained an update that prevents non-Atlassian staff members from creating topics, articles, and questions in the announcements area.

I collected the types of content that are frequently posted in this section and where you can share:

• For questions or assistance with everything Kudos: Community Contests & Kudos
• To introduce yourself to the Community: Welcome Center
• For urgent items you feel need immediate Community Manager attention. Note: Don’t hesitate to email us. We encourage bringing Community matters to the teams attention. communitymanagers@atlassian.com

I usually have a hard time keeping things short and sweet, but since I am running late with this edition I'll try my best. With that you’re up to speed. Be awesome like Bill and share any feedback you have below. 👇

[Jack Brickey]

Thanks for the update @Janice . One question, when Kudos first rolled out it was auto-enabled for all which drew quite a bit of backlash resulting in an opt-in solution. Is there an easy opt-out process? 

[Dave Liao]

Glad the notifications aren't eating super sugary cereal anymore! 😅

[Summer Hogan]

Great updates @Janice! I'm looking forward to the notifications being in chronological order again! Also, so glad for the Kudo's change. That means more people I can give Kudo's to! 

[Jimmy Seddon]

Thanks for the update @Janice!  Also, kudos @Bill Sheboy & @Jessica Zeng!   Thank you both for identifying and quickly resolving the issue!

[carolyn french]

Shared Kudos to the rockstars mentioned in the post - good call out @Janice !

And thanks for a fun read, and productive fixes and improvements as usual 🤩

[Daria Kulikova]

Thanks for the update @Janice . I just started Kudos Program yesterday, and I can say it's great fun 😊

[Janice]

@Jack Brickey Let me confirm the details on this question and I'll provide an update here. :)

[LynnG]

Janice

area to community high priority

area to communicate high priority