What's new in Telligent Community 5.0?

Are you considering to upgrade your CommunityServer 2008.5 to the newest edition 5.0, now dubbed Telligent Community? Here's a list of differences between the two versions.

Groups

• Joinless groups
• Group wiki
• Multiple forums, blogs, media/file galleries, and wikis (with advanced functionality)
• Sub-group hierarchy support
• Configurable group role permissions
• Group messages
• Follow or unfollow groups
• Quick post functionality with Ajax
• Highlight featured content
• Group-driven navigation and browse groups

Membership

• Tag myself and find other like-minded people
• Admin-configurable user profile fields and layout
• Reply to user status messages
• Follow user activity

Blogs

• Support for multiple images and attachments

Forums

• RSS for all forum content in a group
• Capture forum thread to wiki

Wikis

• Add wiki or wiki page to favorites
• Default wiki for a group and default page for a wiki
• Wiki editing conflict resolution
• Capture from forum thread
• Multi-level table of contents
• In-page table of contents with anchors and anchor linking
• Move wikis between groups and sub-groups

Customization

• Configurable “widgets” (components) across the site on every page
• Dynamic theming with widgeted UI
• Highlighted featured content on site home and group home pages
• User-configurable dashboard
• Move wikis between groups and sub-groups
• Editable key site terms for “group(s)” and “friends(s)”

Search

• Word wheel for search results based on what you’re typing
• Search for groups
• Search by all user profile fields
• Search results show forum thread status
• Weighted ranking for answers
• Advanced search
• View users by role

Tools

• Configurable auto-delete task for activity messages