We have great news about the Chinese Community.
In case you don't know, the Chinese Community is hosted in a different platform than the rest of Cisco Community. The great news is that we're bringing it over to the same environment.
Benefits:
- Chinese speaking community members will enjoy the same optimized UI/UX experience when collaborating in Chinese
- There is a single ranking system so if you collaborate both in Cisco Community and Chinese Community, all your content and metrics will be combined.
- Cisco branding & consistent customer experience
- Responsive web design which means that Chinese Community members will be able to collaborate more easily from their mobile devices
- Cisco Community is a very engaged world wide community and bilingual members will be able to leverage content on both languages.
- Unified leaderboards and recognition through the communities, potential VIPs from Chinese community and vice versa.
What You Can Expect:
- The transition will start on Thursday, December 10 at around 11:00 PM PST time.
- This is expected to be completed by Monday December 14 at 6:00 AM PST time
- There is no expected downtime on Cisco Community. However, Cisco community will be in Read-Only Mode from Thursday at 11 PM PDT to Friday midnight PST time while the content Chinese is moving over.
- To avoid spam and filling your inboxes with unnecessary emails, email and web notifications will be turned off across Cisco community while the movement and relabeling of content is in progress. The reason is that when content is updated, an email notification is sent to subscribers (we've learned from previous experiences!). We expect to turn the notifications on by Friday, December 11 at midnight PST.
- The current Chinese Community will be on Read only-mode starting the same time and will become fully functional in the new platform. We expect this to be finalized by Monday December 14 at 6:00 AM PST time
- Redirects of the content that is moved are going to be automatically created, so that if you are subscribed to posts, boards, or you've bookmarked content, we expect you will be able to locate it.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email us at cisco-community@external.cisco.com.
Thank you to those Chinese Community members who provided feedback, we greatly appreciate it! Also, thank you for your patience while we enhance the community experience in Chinese!