Unofficial Spiceworks

So other than breaking the login the Spiceworks update did do some good. As mentioned yesterday there were 5 main new features.

1. Spiceworks Partner directory

Spiceworks have now implemented a “Partner directory”, this allows you to quickly see all the Spiceworks Partners so you can contact them with Questions.

You can also use this to quickly add partners your interested in to your IT pro’s list so you can quickly find them in the future as well as follow what they do on the community in the My IT pro’s section

One thing I found cool about this section is seeing everyone’s avatars. Some are cool, some are just the logos.

Check it out 

2. Public audit trail on discussions

To help people see what’s going on with a topic there is now a activity monitor which shows when posts have been moved, answers marked etc.

This is here to help Group Admin’s feel comfortable when marking answers that there not going behind people’s back doing it. Its also there to watch for people who are just going around marking there own answers and cheating the system.

You can see this at the bottom of all topic pages.

3. Google Translate any Community page

With the community getting more international and more posts showing up that aren’t in English Spiceworks have built Google translate into the page.

I couldn’t find a topic that was in another language so couldn’t try it out but when I do ill give it a try.

But as per the little screenshot on the right it does make some things look ugly.

So hopefully the community will now be able to grow even more, and it will be ALOT easier than trying to convert it yourself.

4. PM notification when topic is deleted

If a topic is now deleted by Spiceworks, Product Advisor or Group Admin the original poster will be notified by email.

We also have to fill in a reason which is attached to the PM and also maybe used in the 404 error pages.

Like the audit trail this is designed to help group admin’s feel they aren’t doing wrong.

5. Ad navigation – scroll through previous ads

This is a really nice feature for when you have just seen a ad that interested you but by the time you have half read it, its gone.

Under the ad’s on the right hand side there are now two arrows one to scroll back and the other forward.

We have also found:

Group “Map of members” has been moved to an external page so that groups like UK with 33579 members loads fast and if you want to see where members are or who’s near you still can.