Commons 2.7: Admin Bar, Group Library and Privacy Improvements Credit: Jason Hickey on Flickr (cc) Happy Spring! We’re excited to roll out our 2.7 release today, with a variety of substantial upgrades t […]

Privacy Checkup Credit: StartinSalford on Flickr (cc) This Spring, with input from the Commons community, the Commons team has developed a quick privacy […]

Spring 2026 Community Events, Workshops, and More! “Rhombic Dodecareuleaux Calendar 2013” by Philip Chapman-Bell on flickr (cc) Happy New Year, Commons community! As you’re planning for the s […]

Commons 2.6: Email and Site Creation Upgrades (and December Meeting!) “mailboxes” by dcJohn on flickr (cc) We hope you’ve been having a terrific fall semester! Here at the Commons, we’re pleased to announce tha […]

Summer Roundup: Public Meetings, Wikipedia Article, Block Documentation “what’s left of summer” by Bùi Linh Ngân on flickr (cc) Welcome to the fall semester! The Commons team enjoyed the summer, but we’ve also bee […]

The Importance of Two-Factor Authentication Credit: Niels Andersen on Flickr (cc) Our development team is spending the early part of 2025 making a series of under-the-hood improvements […]

Commons 2.5: Registration, Reimagined Happy holidays, Commons community! After we closed out our major redesign project with the overhaul of Groups last spring, we turned our […]

Hosting Migration Complete! “five-thirty pm” by Sophia Lucero on flickr (cc) We are very pleased to announce that the Commons has fully migrated to Reclaim […]

Hosting Migration Downtime “LED tunnel” by Yves Sorge on flickr (cc) The hosting migration that we announced last month will begin at 10:30am Eastern on Wednesday, […]

Scheduled Weekend Downtime Photo Credit: R.A. Killmer on flickr (cc) We wanted to let our users know that the Commons will be unavailable starting at 8am Eastern this […]

Hosting Upgrade and First Commons Open Community Meeting “frosted trees” from Richard Droker on Flickr With the end of the year fast approaching, we’re pleased to announce the final stages of a p […]

Commons 2.4: Groups, Our Redesign Finale Just over two years ago, with our 2.0 release of an overhauled homepage, we began to steadily revamp the look of the Commons. As we launch a new […]

Unlocking Python's Power with the DRI By Annapia Borraccino DRI Participant, Winter 2024 “Coding can’t be that hard, you just need to practice it.” This was my ma […]

Commons 2.3: The CV, Your New Professional Homepage It’s a new year, and we’re thrilled to kick it off by unveiling a big new feature. Today, we say goodbye to the traditional Commons Profile and […]

Commons 2.2: Revamped Settings and Inbox Welcome to fall, Commons community, and an eventful release season for our team! Since our January 2023 release of new About and Activity […]

We’re excited to begin a new year and a new semester with a cleaner main menu and several important new ways to jump into everything happening on the Commons.

Last spring, we brought the key elements of our h […]

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As spring exams give way to summer, we’re pleased to announce the release of Commons 2.0! Since January, Commons members and visitors have been enjoying our homepage redesign – a long overdue rethinking of the […]