Unofficial Spiceworks

Tabrez has just posted:

We’re planning on pushing out an update to the Spiceworks Community tonight (Jul 14) at 7pm CST. The Community will be offline during this time. We should be back up in 4 hours. For those of you with S.C.A.D – rest assured we’ll be back and spicier!

Some of the changes you’ll see are:

• A few changes to the point system (I’ll post back tomorrow with the details but in a nutshell: you can now earn points for providing troubleshooting advice and comments on Windows Events)
• We’re testing out a new way of organizing groups around a concept called Channels. For eg: If you visit the Networking channel you’ll see all the topics from groups like Cisco, DNS, etc.
• Topics will now have social media buttons so you can share something from the community on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Linked In, and Reddit. When you share something you found interesting on Spiceworks you’re also helping spread the word about Spiceworks!

I’ll post more details once we get the release out.

Its going to be a hard time of everyone with SCAD but well fight though it.

The Spiceworks Community water cooler to have a chat feature???

Could it be Spiceworks listened to us?

From recent talks with Spiceworks it appears in one of the up coming community releases (no information timescale or which release will contain it yet) they are planning a chat system! To start with there will be select people who can use it to test it out and make sure it works right with the plan of rolling it out for all users above X pepper level so that it doesn’t get flooded with noobies, lets hope they dont let Glen8990 in (joking)

It will be interesting to see what they come up with.

From what we know so far it will be like Facebook chat so that you can carry it on in as you surf around the community. They are not sure yet but it may start with just one on one chats before developing into muti user chat rooms but we will see what happens.

Told you this one would be exciting…

• Do you find it a pain tracking all the groups about networking or software?
• Getting tons of emails about stuff you don’t want to know about just so you don’t miss that one bit off information?

Spiceworks Channels are coming soon and are aimed to help save you time.

I’m subscribed to loads of groups just so I don’t miss a important bit off information and I’m sure you are as well.

Spiceworks channels are going to be a collection of groups to make it easier to watch topics, for example there will be a networking channel which will show groups like

• Cisco
• Networking
• Netgear

It will make it easier to find and watch the groups about the things you love.

We have another VERY exciting exclusive coming in a couple of days… promise its more exciting than this…