Community update: Redesign of the forums

Hello Dynatrace Community!

As some of you probably already noticed, we’ve launched an updated design for the forums. As the new era of Dynatrace approaches (look out carefully for the Perform this year :wink:), we wanted to be closer to the newest branding of our website and branding materials. Thanks to that, soon you’ll get a unified Dynatrace experience across all the different sites and support resources.

With those changes, we also wanted to improve our accessibility, responsiveness on different pages and devices, and (a little bit) page speed. For example, the primary buttons are now more exposed from the others, so you’ll immediately know what to click when trying to navigate through the site.

But fear not – we didn’t remake from scratch the whole page. Almost everything is in the same place as it used to be, so your overall experience won’t be disrupted any big way.

We’ve updated the following:

  • Headers
  • Footers
  • Navigation menu
  • Fonts
  • Buttons
  • Right panel widgets
  • And some smaller changes here and there :wink:

More is soon to come! We’ve focused the first wave of changes on the most important parts of our Community, but step by step, we want to improve every part of it. In the next stage, we’ll change the icons and the styling of more specific pages like the Profile page, User groups, Events, or Dynamights.

We’ve tested everything very thoroughly, but as those changes are affecting a lot of pages, there could be some issues with the styling of some of them - especially on less popular browsers.

Let us know in the comments if you have issues with anything, and we’ll fix it as soon as possible. Thank you!

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Next month I nominate Community Team as Employees of the month! Who is with me ? :slightly_smiling_face:

Great design! I enjoy it so much! Thanks.

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Very nice design. I’m with Radoslaw, they are such a great team, and do deserve recognition!

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I really love this design! I’m with Radoslaw also. Congrats to the Team!

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This design of buttons and colours matches the Dynatrace design, and it looks more stable. I Love the new change.

I agree with @Radoslaw_Szulgo and I too nominate community team for next Employee member of the month.

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Love the evolution of this community over the years. look great !

Keep on your great work !

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New design is top notch, great work!

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Very very cool!! :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Great job, Team!! :flexed_biceps: :thankyou:

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On the behalf of the whole Community team, thank you everyone for your kind words! :heart:

As always, this is just the beginning and we’ll continue to redesign the outstanding pages and fix already-known issues :wink: So if you notice any UI glitches, let us know!

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