ISY Portal Maintenance - 03-30-2018

[bmercier]

Hello Everyone,

A maintenance is planned this friday March 30th, 5am PST. This will last up to 2 hours, with intermittent downtimes. 

The purpose of the maintenance is to upgrade the node.js version on all servers.

No other changes are planned.

Thanks,

Benoit Mercier

[bmercier]

The update is now completed.

Benoit

[MrBill]

Just a question/comment related to the forum, not the portal maintenance that was completed Friday.

<Rant mode>

Why are there 8 old portal maintenance notices "pinned" to the top of this section of the forum?

I could understand why ONE would be pinned PRIOR to the announced maintenance, but I would expect it to get unpinned when it's no longer relevant.   It also appears that there has been a "rule change" and no new portal maintenance announcements are pinned now.  So again I ask why are the old announcements still pinned?

As is, I can't imagine why portal maintenance announcements from 4/10/2016, 10/9/2016, 10/16/2016, 2/19/2017, 3/19/2017, 4/14/2017, 7/16/2017, and 9/10/2017 would be considered a relevant announcement that should be seen immediately by anyone visiting this section or board in the forum.  If all 8 of these were to be Unpinned it would leave 3 pinned posts that are relevant for pinning and in fact make those 3 posts easier to find/see (less noise). 

Actually the whole forum/community suffers from pinning "noise" or "pin pollution" at the top of each section or board.  Someone with the power to unpin should review every section. "As is" users will simply develop the habit of downward scrolling beyond the pinned thread without even "seeing" the pinned topics anymore.  This completely invalidates pinning.

Disclosure and additional comment:  I used to work for a social media provider that provides hosted forums to many of the larger corporations worldwide that offer a forum.  As a community specialist the advice we gave customers was to 1) be careful not to over-pin 2) be certain to "unpin" when no longer relevant 3) make certain that the first unpinned thread was "above the fold" (see note below),  that is, the first normal user thread should always be visible "above the fold".  Today, #3 is harder to deal with because there are so many screen sizes and screen resolutions possible. But the general idea still holds true: Keep pinned threads at a minimum and get the user directly to the content.

("Above the Fold" is a term borrowed from the newspaper industry.  In the newspaper industry,  "above the fold" refers to the upper half of the front page that shows when displayed on the newsstand. It's the meat that must grab the reader and "sell" the paper.  In the web hosting/web application world "above the fold" refers to the portion of any page that appears after the page is loaded WITHOUT scrolling.  A general rule of thumb is that the user should become engaged with the content without scrolling on most browsers.)

</Rant mode>

Edited April 1, 2018 by MrBill

[Michel Kohanim]

MrBill,

Can we hire you?

With kind regards,
Michel

[mariocsalvatori]

On 29/3/2018 at 3:13 PM, bmercier said:

Hello Everyone,

A maintenance is planned this friday March 30th, 5am PST. This will last up to 2 hours, with intermittent downtimes. 

The purpose of the maintenance is to upgrade the node.js version on all servers.

No other changes are planned.

Thanks,

Benoit Mercier

Hi Benoit, 

could you tell me where i can download the home automation Dashboard? thank you very much 

[bmercier]

8 hours ago, mariocsalvatori said:

Hi Benoit, 

could you tell me where i can download the home automation Dashboard? thank you very much 

You can find it in the ISY SDK here:

https://www.universal-devices.com/isy-developers/

Benoit