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We announced a pair of new P2 product releases over on P2 Updates and wanted to share the news here. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or thoughts on these new features.
With pre-approved emails, you can indicate that everyone who has an email for your company is welcome to join the P2. This can take out some management work for inviting and approving teammates.
That’s it. It’s pretty simple, and it can make P2 onboarding a smoother experience. Here’s the announcement and here is the help document.
If you are a software developer, there’s a good chance you use GitHub and will find this embed useful. If you are not a developer (like myself) but work with developers, you might want to let them know about the feature.
The GitHub embed is useful as it allows developers to share or broadcast what they are doing in GitHub on P2. For people who don’t have GitHub licenses, information can be silo’d there, but the GitHub integration opens up a window into GitHub.
Here’s an example:
Here’s the Github integration announcement and here is the help document.
One notes a number of calendar plug-ins for WordPress.org, with The Events Calendar apparently being WordPress’s own. Can any of these be used on a P2 site?
Would anyone else find it useful to be able to promote a reply as a separate Posts let you share long-form, formatted content — like project plans or documentation — directly in P2. They are displayed in reverse chronological order.
post, and to demote a post to a reply under another post? Context & explanation, plus a technical update, follow.
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I see the chronological flow of posts on a P2 as being useful for tracking the evolution of projects or helping new members get up to speed. Along the way, however, people unfamiliar with the system may post replies or snippets of thoughts in a way that might fit better as replies under posts. On the flip side, a reply may be so well thought out that it seems a shame for it to be hidden from the main view under another post. So part of the issue here is another question: Is this an issue anyone else has observed?
Obviously one solution is to manually shift these as appropriate (or delete posts that are unintentional non-sequiteurs), but that introduces other problems (whoever makes the shift is the “author” and the new post/reply will have a new The timestamp shows you the exact date and time a post, page or comment in P2 was made.
timestamp). So I wondered if it might be possible to have a simple way to recategorize a reply as a post, or post as reply in the flow.
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I understand from Jon in an email exchange that this is not currently technically possible. So, this post is mainly to sound out whether the concept is one that makes sense to others, and thus should be considered for development.
The simplest example of the promote/demote concept is of course a dynamic list (ordered or unordered) such as one has in a wordprocessor or many other programs like WordPress itself: typically tab to demote, and alt-tab to promote.
Another example of promotion is the feature current on LinkedIn where, upon making a long reply to another post, one is automatically given the option to “start a new conversation” by taking the reply up a level as a separate post.
I would love to be able to use a before and after slider on my P2 forum.
Elfsight and others provide an embed code but I don’t believe this works. Is there any plans to enable embeds from Elfsight??
It is impossible to enter any private P2 using FireFox. What is happening?
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