We are excited to announce that we are rolling out Commonlounge Pro to everyone today!

While Commonlounge has been the home of highest-quality, free, bite-sized tutorials on topics from Deep Learning to UX Design, we’ve always felt that true learning happens by working on real-world projects and getting feedback from experts on your work. This was the top feedback whenever we asked our users what else we can add to make their learning experience better.

So today, we’re officially launching Commonlounge Pro— a new offering that adds Quizzes and Projects to our top courses:

• Quizzes make you work through interesting problems that stretch your understanding and solidify your learnings.
• Real world projects let you work with tools used in the industry, and we get experts to give you feedback on every submission.
• In addition, you become eligible for an Of...

We are excited to announce that we are releasing Quizzes on Commonlounge today! They are a fun way for you to test each other's, as well as your own knowledge about anything under the sun. For example, you can make a quiz on fan trivia for TV Shows based communities, or practice tests for learning based communities. We are most surprised by use cases you come up with for features we build, so we're looking forward to some amazing quizzes from you. Here's how you create one:

Hello everyone! Just wanted to quickly update you of two new channels we have been beta testing, and you may have seen in some of our communities:

1. Ask Channel: If a community has an Ask channel, a couple of interesting features get activated in the background. Once you post your question to that channel, it gets added to a queue, and you can see the position your question is in. Questions ahead in the queue are distributed more across the platform (like people's feeds, digests etc.) so that they can be answered sooner. We also do a couple of other interesting things such as distributing your question more if you answer other members' questions. We hope this creates a nice economy where the more helpful you are, the more help you can expect to receive :) You can see this in action here: Ask channel of Competitive Programming community
2. News channel: We have also started auto-importing some of the most interesting news content around the web related to a community. We've activated this channel fo...