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The forums and the community website were down yesterday. The downtime lasted for about a day.

After investigation, it turned out the motherboard on the server had to be replaced. I would like to give credit to our host, SevenL, for helping us in that matter.

SevenL is a Canadian hosting company. Our forums have been hosted by them for about a year now and we rarely experienced downtime. Not only that but to promote Open Source and Linux projects, they provide this server to us for free.

I’ll take this opportunity to thank the hosting companies which are providing us with free servers around the World:

Apologies to everyone for the downtime yesterday and thanks again to hour host for the fantastic work done to fix the issue.

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The Community website is now in BETA:

http://community.linuxmint.com

A new “tutorials” module was added, which allows you to write tutorials, to vote and to comment them. The module hosts a WISIWIG editor to make editing easier. To illustrate this, let me link to a tutorial I wrote on how to upgrade Linux Mint:

http://community.linuxmint.com/index.php/tutorial/view/2

This module will allow the community not only to help produce good documentation, but also to rate it and to discuss it. In the long term this will fully replace the Wiki.

Bugs are also now accepted in Launchpad.

At this stage, the website is fully functional and hosts the following modules:

  • Hardware database
  • Software portal
  • Idea pool
  • Tutorials library
  • Lesser modules: Users, countries, editions, releases, friends, messaging, subscriptions, notifications, chatroom.

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Maybe it’s time we know a little more about our user base when it comes to upgrades, not package updates, but upgrades between different releases of Linux Mint.

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