ColdFusion 8 documentation is now running under Community Help

Hi everyone,
As most of you know, I also manage the ColdFusion documentation and I'm happy to announce that, as of this morning, the ColdFusion 8 HTML-format content (aka LiveDocs) now uses the Community Help commenting system. We first rolled out community help as a pilot project for Flex and then deployed it for all of the CS4 products last fall.

What does this mean?

• The content under http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs uses a different commenting system. (The original code name for the project was Ion, so you'll sometimes hear people refer to this as "Ion commenting.")
  
• One difference: Comments display by default and inappropriate comments are moderated out. In the old system, comments were hidden by default and appropriate comments were moderated in.
  
• Community Help is more than updated commenting:
  
  • You will also notice an enhanced ColdFusion Support page, now renamed to Help and Support.
    
  • When you search, we now use Community Search, which is a custom system than pulls in results from a predefined list of all the best ColdFusion resource inside and outside of Adobe. This is a process of continuous improvement, so if you see that we're missing a site, just let me know (ranielse [at] adobe [dot] com).
    
  • Moderators include Adobe employees and external ColdFusion developers. As the system grows, I'm sure that we'll be inviting more of you to be moderators.
    
  • We now assign points to helpful comments. Depending on whether you point out a typo or post a 100-line code example, we'll asign you anywhere from 5 - 50 points. We haven't quite figured out what to do with the points, but at some point, we'll ask high-point achievers to join the moderators (and we'll probably send out swag or something).
    
• We don't have a migration utility, so it'll be at least a week before I've copied existing CF8 comments to the new system. Please be patient.

As always, comments are _not_ for ongoing, threaded Q&A, such as conversations about troubleshooting issues. In most cases, we'll let these conversations stand, but in general, you'll get better and faster results in the user-to-user forums.

For more information:

• Introduction to Adobe Community Help


• ColdFusion Help and Support Page

And, finally, there is currently a IE 6 bug in which a Server Communications error displays for pages that have no comments. I'm told that this will be fixed in the next iteration.

Regards,
Randy Nielsen