It is June again – the season of spring cleanup and refurbishment: prefect timing to also enhance the Kolab Now frontpage to give it more structure & clarity to communicate in a clear manner what makes us different and special.
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‘A small change for existing users; A giant leap for new sign-ups..’
Today we announce a change to the Kolab Now account types that will improve the user experience for new users.
Since the start of Kolab Now, new users could choose between two different types of accounts upon sign-up:
* Individual accounts, which was bound to a Kolab Now owned domain name (such as kolabnow.com, mykolab.ch, libertymail.com, etc) or..
* Group accounts, with which the new users could make use of their own private domain names.
This worked well for a long time, but lately this division of account types has caused confusion for new users. Therefore it was decided to simplify the systems, and bring the two types together into one unified Kolab Now account type for all.
This change will be implemented today:
Monday, 24.03.2025
Become Kolab ‘Now’: Christmas Referral is ON
This year we have something special for you!
During the last weeks some of our developers have been partly busy with creating something new and fresh: our first Referral Program – Christmas edition (Hooray).
Simply invite your beloved ones to become part of Kolab ‘Now’ by using your personal Christmas Referral Code, earn CHF 10 once your person/persons topped up their wallet with CHF 10 – offering 20% discount for the first 3 months of usage.*
Step by step:
- Navigate to your wallet
- Find your personal Christmas Referral Code (link)/ QR-Code
- Copy that link and send it out to your friends, offering them 20% discount for the first 3 months of usage
- For every successful sign-up with a topped up wallet of min. CHF 10, you earn CHF 10 (Kolab ‘Now’ will add this to your wallet)
In case you are still looking for a nice gesture during this festive season Kolab Christmas Referral is ON.
We wish everyone lovely pre-Christmas days.
*The Christmas Referral Program will be active until 31.01.2025
Kolab Now Christmas special!
The year 2023 slowly comes to an end – and with it the festive season begins! Cinnamon smell, snow and lights everywhere. It is the time of contemplation and togetherness.
Announcing Service Window: 25th of October 2023
The operations team is going to make an update to the Kolab Now dashboard applications framework. Therefore we declare a service window on:
Wednesday 2023-10-25 from 07:00 UTC until 09:00 UTC.
Changes: The Kolab Now support system
As most of our users probably know, Bifrost was our support system of choice for many years. It was a great system that served us well all those years, however it also had it’s weaknesses and it is time for a change.
Announcing Service Window on Wednesday 4th of October 2023: Larry skin & Spellcheck
The Kolab Now Staff is going to deploy the “old” larry skin and enable the English spellcheck option (again). Therefore we declare a service window on:
Wednesday 2023-10-04 at 07:00 UTC until 08:00 UTC.
The Kolab skins
Some users probably remember when we first released the new Responsive skin back in 2018. Since then, the responsive skin has been developed further, some improvements were made, and the skin was promoted to be the default skin for new Kolab Now users.
We in the Kolab Now team love the Responsive skin, and we were not going to miss the old static skin when it was not deployed during the update to the latest version of the webclient. We had only received positive feedback about the responsive skin so far, but it turned out that some users still were very fond of the old look and feel.
Announcing Service Window Friday 9th of June: Getting rid of even more old infrastructure..
The Kolab Now Staff is going to update parts of the platform to get rid of even more old infrastructure, and to ensure the best possible solution for users. Therefore we declare a service window on:
Friday 2023-06-09 at 08:00 UTC until 12:00 UTC.
