Category: Blog
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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 […]
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Trailer: From Pilot to Platform
As a project manager, I’ve often described myself as a herder of cats and an organizer of chaos. I’ve managed a number of projects and platforms over the years, each one has become a bit more complex, and not all of them successful. I’ve made a career of taking on projects (and positions) that have […]
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Redesigning Commons Groups: User Experience
Groups are a central feature of Humanities Commons. They are the primary way for you to have multi-way interactions on the Commons: to have a discussion or collaborate with other users. Despite of—or perhaps because of—their importance, groups on the Commons have never worked to our satisfaction. They are clunky, slow, and overly complex. Behind […]
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A Federated Commons
Twitter’s recent troubles have catalyzed unprecedented attention on Mastodon as an alternative. In turn, this has introduced many to the Fediverse—a loose collection of services that, like Mastdodon, use the ActivityPub protocol to communicate with each other. At Humanities Commons, we have long considered ActivityPub to be the most promising way to expand from our current, […]