With today’s update to mixxt version “boogie”, we proudly present our new and often longed-for “groups module”. When you create your own community with mixxt, the implementation of this module provides entirely new ways of collaboration and organisation in the individual networks.
A community within your community
Within the privacy and rights management of each community, admins were given the opportunity to decide which users – “simple” members, moderators or administrators – are allowed to view or edit certain content. From now on, mixxt offers a module to create groups within these communities. Imagine many sub-communities within one greater community, where e.g. content and modules are visible and editable by group members only.
Configuration and employment of the groups module
Since configuration and privacy settings are based on the general network administration, mixxt users and community hosts will surely get on well with setting up a group. Read more »
Some of you may already have noticed, others may even have given their vote in one of the existing polls: mixxt has added a poll module to their community features. Administrators are now enabled to
ask for their members opinion on a certain topic
let them vote on any proposal
schedule events and find common dates
have topics or “things” being rated and
carry out statistical surveys or explore current trends
The polls can be configured individually, as admins can submit questions, answer types and options as well as the poll’s runtime. Votings can for example be helpful as a mood or opinion poll among the community or for making better decisions regarding current and community issues.
Creating a poll
Polls are generally shown on the community main page. To create an own poll, select the “Main Page” menu from the Admin Panel, choose “Poll” from the additional features and drag it into the desired column. A blank poll box will then appear on the main page and can be edited as follows:
At first, enter title (poll box title), question and (optional) a more detailed description. You can also determine whether the vote should be immediately activated, or will be unlocked at a later stage. Read more »
Last weekend, we added a few features to our community kit. mixxt now comes along with enhanced invitation and message centre settings as well as a new contact form to get in touch with the community’s founder directly.
Invitations
To win new members for a community, the founder – and, depending on privacy settings, other members – may send invitations to the email addresses or mixxt-IDs of the desired persons. Since the latest update, mixxt additionally provides a summary of all previously sent and accepted invitations:
Last night we have said goodbye to the old network footer!
Now say hello to our new and elegant footer: Go to your networks and scroll down to the bottom. We have reduced it to the most important information and links to save space and offer more clarity.
The default colour is set to grey, but you can change it according to your preferences:
Go to the admin panel and open the “style” menu. Click “page” to edit the settings for the “footer” and choose a colour that fits your networks’ design.
Do you like our new footer? Always looking forward to your feedback: your mixxt team!
With our recent update to version 0.18.0 (pixy) we finally introduced the “three column main page”. This means, every main page now offers more space for the boxes which display the network’s various features.
Three column trinity
We have added the menu “main page” to the network admin:
Last night we deployed a small upate from version 0.17.0 to 0.17.1. Even though we just made some tiny changes, many of you will be glad to hear the news:
We have finally released our slideshow widget for showing photo albums on your networks’ start page or even on external websites. Have a look!
Today we were delighted to discover mixxt being awarded “Website of the Day” on IDG’s IT and Media news portal. This is a real treat for us and of course we think we have deserved it.
As it seems our 1-minute creation process for starting your own community is not only popular among users. We would like to say thank you and we will try to earn our next awards with further hard work, good updates and useful new features.
