Wagn 1.11

We've been steadily rolling out so many Wagn improvements since the Wagn 1.10 release, you'd have to be paying very close attention to notice them all.  Let's hit the highlights:

• Based largely on feedback from our weekly Wagn Circle calls, we've honed the card menus (the ones that appear when you mouse over a gear icon) to make them both more powerful and more usable.  What you see on the menu depends on your roles and permissions, so to get a sense of what's there, you should experiment while signed out, signed in as a regular user, signed in as an administrator, etc.
• One of the most powerful changes for Wagneers is the new structured card interface.  A "structured" card is one that is formatted by a *structure rule (formerly called "*content").  The menu on a structured card now gives Wagneers easy access to "edit > structure" or "view > structure" (and, of course, you can still get to these and all rules via the "advanced" menu item).   When viewing the structure, you now have simple navigation to configure all the inclusions on a structured card.  This was previously one of the most challenging parts of Wagneering.
• For more casual users, the biggest improvement may be the "discuss" menu item, which now provides a convenient comment box even when the discussion card doesn't exist yet.  Comment boxes can now be wagneered to behave this way anywhere.
• All users trying to learn Wagneering should enjoy all the additional help text that now appears as you navigate through the menu items, explaining concepts like "children" and "mates", for example.
• Even very passive users will benefit from all the interface harmonization.  For example, the sign-up and invite-a-friends used to look a bit out of place on a Wagn, but now they look very much like normal card pages.  This will make life easier for skin designers, for whom we hope to have several new tools soon.  And it eases the transition to 2.0, when all of these things will be completely handled in cards.

There are lots of improvements under the hood, too, including a new content rendering system, a major database cleanup (including removing four tables no longer needed), and a new rule caching system that improves performance considerably.

Before you upgrade your Wagn to version 1.11, be sure to take note of the new and improved Updating procedure. 

More resources:

• For a more complete overview of the changes, see +closed tickets

• To discuss the changes, please join us this Thursday at our Wagn Circle
• To learn about future directions, see wagn.org/roadmap
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