About Khoros Community: Aurora
Aurora is Khoros’ re-imagined Community experience that leverages more than 20 years of experience and learnings in the digital community space.
Aurora delivers a sleek, modern, high-performance UX framework that adheres to community best practices while still giving brands complete flexibility to make changes or updates to address their specific needs.
While built on the same platform as Khoros Community Classic, Aurora includes significant changes in the new framework:
- New member experience: Aurora delivers both better performance (load times, mobile-friendly pages) and design (modern UX, beautiful layouts, and pre-configured community best practices). Aurora also provides more personalization, integration with other digital properties through syndication, and an overall better experience so that communities can more easily become the heart of any brand’s digital experience.
- New community manager experience: Aurora enables community managers and designers to build and customize pages easier with a visual Page Template designer and control the look and feel of the community with pre-defined and customizable themes to ensure that your community reflects the visual message and tone of your brand. Moreover, you no longer need to know how to code to build these pages.
- New developer experience: Aurora improves the developer experience so your developers can more easily find, use, test, and extend any integrations, custom objects, or data calls (in and out of the community) to extend the capabilities of your community to do something new and provide your members with a more customized experience.
- Backend and Platform changes: Aurora uses new front-end technologies like React and Storybook and leverages tools like Jest and Typescript for rapid iteration and robust design. On the data side, Aurora uses GraphQL (replacing LiQL) as the way to program API interactions and get data out of the platform. Finally, the entire architecture is completely built on modern cloud services from AWS and Docker.
When you’re ready to dive in, we recommend starting with one of our Getting Started Guides:
- Getting Started as a Community Manager
- Getting Started as a Community Administrator
- Getting Started as a Site Designer
New to communities? Check out our Community Basics and take a tour of Aurora in this 1-hour video training course, which will help you familiarize yourself with key Aurora features and concepts.
Moving to Aurora
Since Aurora is built on the same backend data architecture as Community Classic, existing customers do not need to do a full-scale migration to move to Aurora.
However, most Community Classic customers do have some customization on the front end and UI. For these customers, some additional work is required to move to Aurora.
Review the Aurora Upgrade Playbook and reach out to your account manager to learn more about what to expect when migrating to Aurora.
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