TBH... Ive had an issue with my site for ages.. where the popout menus are painfully slow to update and reflect changes made to the site nav.. I often have to wait a day for it to update. No real time thats for sure, Ive raised tickets in the past and had some luck with quick fixes when updates appear to have been "stuck" but the issue persists. Just a quirk of the platform, just my opinion anyway...   ... View more

Hey,  I did a while back create a test script essentially a list of everything you could do, click, see on the site. Every time we did any changes we'd go through the list to check for issues. My site is now so huge in terms of different hubs, custom applications etc etc that i found it was taking a lot of time and still we'd push with the odd bug which would only pop up after live.  Some things that have helped me: 1. Give your super users access to stage and get them to test for any issues, this is really useful as they always find stuff that my team dont.  2. If you can assign an owner to each segment/application on your site within your tea and get them to test the hell out of it.  3. test test test... So I have to be honest with the mandated platform push, i don't do a massive amount of testing these days but I do check all the main points such can i still navigate, can i register and can i participate. If you can do these three anything else is likely small which you can fix after the fact. This did however bit me on the bum with the recent update to the editor which had a bug on android i didn't see as i was using an android emulator, i was being lazy I do however complete full testing on anything we dev before pushing then again after push so we can roll back if issues, we have a couple ios, android devices which we use for testing along with different browsers which is key as i often find IE is a pain Good luck also ive used this in the past which ive found useful for cross browser testing https://www.browserstack.com/ ... View more

Hey @Jolene  Firstly have fun with it, you don't get to do a redesign very often, i've been lucky enough to do a couple on my site due to me first rolling out responsive and then last year I shut down our consumer help site and moved its content onto Lithium so i kinda have a 50/50 forum vs help site, lots of fun 🙂   Be crystal clear on your business objectives, what is your community trying to achieve and what does it need to deliver, this is super important as the best looking and functional community in the world is great but if it doesn't add value to the business, what's the point.  Some of the other learnings i've picked up, Make sure you have a great home page but don't waste time on it, if you look at the stats you'll find that most traffic is likely organic going deep into your site.  You've got a super active and mature community so speak to the users find out what they like and don't like and play to the strength.  Lastly, less is more... Now this is personal choice but most people are using mobile so make sure you design for mobile first and scale up, I've seen a few sites that have a very busy and wizzy layout on desktop and on mobile 90% of component are put at the bottom of the topic lists, Aint nobody seeing them on mobile so why have them in the first place. That does go against some of the best prac advice but if it's not being used or even visible for the majority why have it... keep it clean looking.  Have a blast with it and good luck, you'll smash it i know.    ... View more

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Kudos guys 😉   ... View more