A lot has happened, since we launched our new Community site on June 23rd. In order to give you an overview on all the Community news since the launch, we are starting our monthly Community Roundup series. What were some of the top conversations? What changes have been made to the site? What’s next? - This blog has it all!
Make sure to read on for a surprise that we have in store for existing users!
One-Month Anniversary & Founder Badge
It’s time to celebrate, as we have officially reached our 1-month anniversary! 
Thank you for joining us and building the foundation of this vibrant Community! At the time this blog is being written, there’s already more than 10,000 of you!
Watching the rapid growth was - and still is - definitely one of our favorite activities post launch. We hope that no matter whether you were already a user in one of the previous communities that we merged or if you just discovered us, you have found this site to be a great place to chat, connect, and find solutions to your issues.
As a sign of our appreciation and to celebrate the 1-month anniversary, we are going to be giving anyone who has logged into the new Community site before July 23rd a unique Founder badge to adorn their profile. Check it out:
You can find more information on how Community badges work in our support article. For a little history behind this site, click here.
Let it be known that this is just the beginning. We have many cool events planned for you, and we can’t wait to share them with you in our future blogs.
Roadmaps and Visible Changes Access
We have seen a good amount of questions related to how users with previous access to Roadmaps and Visible Changes could access them in the new Community. If you have lost access since joining the new Community, please let us know, so that we can confirm that you are under NDA, as only Community members under NDA have access to these areas. Thank you for your patience, as we are going through the list of users to investigate.
New Developer Board
We have created a dedicated space for developers under Workspace Forums, specifically designed for the “devs” among you to connect with other Google Workspace Developers, the Google Workspace Developer Experts (GDEs) and the Google team to share and learn from each other. You can find it here.
Join the Workspace UX Research Survey Insight program!
The UX Research team wants to hear from you. How does this work? It’s easy: Each week, there’s a new survey added that you can fill out to share your feedback.
In the past our community has participated in a variety of studies including:
- Admin Console Information Architecture
- Improving search features in Google Chat
- Early adopter programs for new products
All you have to do is send a request to join the Feature Ideas group hub and subscribe to Survey Insight Program, in order to be notified of any new surveys.
New Series: ‘Community Quick Takes’
We are hosting our first ‘Community Quick Takes’ event, a mix of a short video with news straight from a Google Product Manager and an opportunity to have your questions heard. Join here.
Top Topics
Many great conversations have been taking place over the past month. We love to see how ready some of you are to jump in and offer solutions. Don’t forget to mark a solution to your own problem to signal to others that the thread contains a useful answer. If you don’t have a support issue but would like to introduce yourself and network, post in Workspace Discussions.
Here are some of the top conversations for Google Workspace:
Community-Organized Google Workspace Admins Group & Speaker Series
CAF members @stevelarsen , @dominik , @brian_kim, and @kim_nilsson started a really cool project back in December 2020. Together, they created a repository of useful information and a video guest speaker series for anyone interested in Workspace. We always love to see Community members share knowledge with others, so click the button below to find out how to access the Google Group and where to find recordings of past videos.
Introduce Yourself!
Have you already taken a minute to introduce yourself to the rest of the Community? If not, the Workspace Discussion area is the perfect place to do so. Let us know who you are and what your areas of expertise are to connect with other experts in your field.
Is a backup a good idea? If so, which one?
Brian-Barrett wanted to know how to handle backups for his nonprofit organization. Think this could be useful for you?Click the button to see some of the suggestions.
Decide how to apply link-sharing security update to Drive - what does this affect?
Community member dan_davenport had a question about the security update to Drive and what it would impact. Read the full thread by clicking the button.
Copying a folder
Anthony_francis was looking for a way to copy a folder within a standard folder taxonomy to shared Drives. Find out how the issue was resolved.
Changes & Bug Fixes
As we mentioned in our launch communications, the Community is a living breathing site that heavily relies on your feedback. Thank you for making us aware of bugs and sharing your feedback in Community Feedback. We will continue to monitor comments, so keep the posts coming!
Here’s a list of some of the changes that we’ve made, since July 23rd:
- Blog tiles now show a short teaser text to tell you what a blog is about.
- Posts moved by admins that were edited to have new labels showed the incorrect labels in the post feed in the new post location.
- Breadcrumbs (i.e. the navigation path at the top) are now showing correctly on mobile devices.
- We are regularly updating the widget on the Google Cloud homepage now to highlight Community Blogs and other important content that you don’t want to miss.
Make sure to subscribe to News & Announcements and the Community Blogs, so that you don’t miss any of our content. You can learn more about subscriptions here.
What’s been your highlight since the launch? Any threads that you think people shouldn’t miss? Share your favorites below.