Hey, all! Long time, no see, it’s been a whole week. How ya been? Good, good, that’s really good… *awkward pause* Listen, uh, we, uh, *shuffles feet* have something we need to tell you. You remember how we renamed Spaces to Portals? How we decided that, because users were confused by the relationship between Spaces and Portals, we’d call both of them Portals? Well, unfortunately, that didn’t work out. People became confused about access control settings and which areas of the app would be affected by changing them. Did they apply your drafts in Jira, or your published posts in the wild? Both? By combining Spaces and Portals under the same term, it became impossible to know the difference.
As it turns out, we really do need a different name for the space where you do your work. So we’re calling it a… Work… Space… Workspace. Not super creative, we know, but it’s the right word for where you do your work.
This is different to the place where all your customers and stakeholders view your work. Your customers don’t need to see all the details of how the sausage is made. They get to peer through a window from which they can only see the magic you choose to share with them. You might call that window a Portal.
So how will we deal with that original confusion about the relationship between Workspaces and Portals? From now on we’ll treat the Portal as a part of your workspace. It will be another channel where your customers can go to pick up what you’re putting down, like your embedded widgets and pages, email subscriptions, Confluence pages or Slack notifications.