Working to improve the Commons of today and build the Commons of tomorrow.
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Interoperability and the Commons
The Commons behaves like a network of sites: Humanities Commons, MLA Commons, MSU Commons, SAH Commons, ARLIS/NA Commons, HASTAC Commons, and about 3,000 WordPress sites operated by our users. All of these sites are in reality a single WordPress instance with a single filesystem and a single database. As I discussed previously in “A Federated […]
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Building the Commons Update: July 2023
In the first half of the year, our focus has been on improving our backend infrastructure and building strong foundations for future development. As we move into the second half of 2023, we will continue to improve our backend but you should start to see more user-facing improvements as a result of that work. Later […]
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Building the Commons Update: May 2023
Over the past month The Commons hasn’t had any significant user-facing updates, but we have many some behind-the-scenes improvements and we have been making steady progress on many projects. To better communicate all of these projects, we have created a public roadmap on the Building blog. If want an overview of all the things we’re […]
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Building the Commons Update: April 2023
Here’s another update on what the Commons development team has been up to in the last month! Recent Developments This month we didn’t deploy any new functionality. However, we did make a couple of small changes to the site that I think are illustrative for understanding the nature of development work on the Commons and […]
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Building the Commons Update: March 2023
To keep our users updated and engaged with our work maintaining and improving the Commons, we are beginning a series of monthly development updates that will look at what we’ve accomplished recently, what we expect to be releasing soon, and what we’re working on for the future. As always, we really appreciate feedback and input […]