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What and why?

This PR:

  • Removes the Slack sign-up page and adds an alias to our main community page to avoid 404s
  • Adds a note about Slack channels being retired
  • Reworks the main community page with additional resources
  • Makes some general edits and tweaks to the main community page

Relates to sc-12826

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Dependencies, breaking changes, and deployment notes

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Slack community channels, it's time to say goodbye.

Our community Slack channels are being retired on November 15, 2025, but our community continues to grow in many other spaces. Explore how you can stay connected with us:

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  • How to test
  • What needs special review
  • Dependencies, breaking changes, and deployment notes
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  • Unit tests added (Backend)
  • Tested locally
  • Documentation updated (if required)
  • Environment variable additions/changes documented (if required)

@nrichers nrichers added the documentation Improvements or additions to documentation label Oct 24, 2025
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⚠️ WARN: Average accessibility score is 0.87 (required: >0.9) — Check the workflow run

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Modify the workflow to check a different depth:

  • 0: Top-level navigation only — /index.html, /guide/guides.html, ...
  • 1: All first-level subdirectories — /guide/.html, /developer/.html, ...
  • 2: All second-level subdirectories — /guide/attestation/*.html, ...
Page Accessibility Performance Best Practices SEO
/developer/validmind-library.html 0.85 0.66 1.00 0.90
/get-started/get-started.html 0.85 0.70 1.00 0.80
/guide/guides.html 0.85 0.68 1.00 0.90
/index.html 0.93 0.65 1.00 0.90
/releases/all-releases.html 0.86 0.67 1.00 0.80
/support/support.html 0.91 0.66 1.00 0.90
/training/training.html 0.85 0.68 0.96 0.80

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PR Summary

This PR overhauls the community engagement sections of the website. The changes include:

• Removal of Slack links from the footer and various community pages.
• The file for joining the Slack community (join-community.qmd) has been removed to reflect the retirement of the Slack channel.
• Updates in the validmind-community.qmd file now redirect users to other engagement channels such as the Blog, Events, Webinars, Newsletter, and LinkedIn. A callout clearly informs users that the Slack community will be retired on November 15, 2025.
• Additional content is added under the "Join our team" section, providing a link to the careers page.
• Lastly, support documentation in the training section has been updated to remove Slack-specific instructions.

These changes collectively streamline community interactions and direct users towards updated communication platforms.

Test Suggestions

  • Verify that the footer correctly displays only the updated links (GitHub, LinkedIn, Events, Blog) and ensures that the Slack link is removed.
  • Confirm that all new links (LinkedIn, Events, Blog, Webinars, Newsletter, Careers) direct to the correct pages.
  • Check that the join-community.qmd file is removed and that any internal redirects referencing it are updated accordingly.
  • Test the callout sections to ensure proper rendering across different devices and screen sizes.
  • Perform a full site build to confirm that no broken links or references remain after the removal of Slack-specific content.

@nrichers nrichers merged commit c9c1bc4 into main Oct 24, 2025
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nrichers added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 25, 2025
* Remove Slack sign-up page & update community resources

* Minor consistency edit

* Remove sign-up hint I added
nrichers added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 31, 2025
* Removing validmind version variable (#921)

* infra: Merge main into staging PRs created by staging deploy now indicate original PR# (#924)

* Updating main into staging workflow

* Testing branch versions

* Removing test file

* Fix Makefile help

* infra: Delete older PR preview comments from validate & execute flows (#932)

* Adding deletion of old preview comments back in

* Removing unused variable

* Adding same thing to notebooks

* Edit to notebook, should remove old comment

* hm

* Deleting test execution notebook

* ValidMind Platform releases: Exclude `admin-ui` from roundup listing page (#933)

* Exclude admin-ui from platform releases roundup

* Adjust

* Remove old variable usage

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* docs: Export findings (#939)

* Setup: Customize model findings layout

* Save point

* Save point

* Draft: Customize model finding layouts

* Setup: Export findings

* Draft: Export findings

* Export documentation > Export documents

* Editing

* Cleanup

* Proofread

* Filter

* Update API reference to use prod server (#938)

* Update API reference to use prod server

* Update Makefile for admin API as well

* docs: Export inventory (#943)

* Setup: Export inventory

* Draft: Export inventory

* Proofreading

* Oops

* docs: Updated Export findings (#944)

* Setup

* Proofread

* Testing pinned Quarto version

* docs: Customize Virtual Document Validator (#947)

* Set up: Manage regulations and policies

* WIP

* Customize VDV draft

* Edits: Check documentation for compliance

* Proofread

* Quick UI updates

* Pin a Quarto version specified in Action variables for our deployment workflows (#951)

* Testing pinned Quarto version

* Applying pinned Quarto version to other workflows

* Removing test notebook

* docs: Workflow Wait step time delta configuration (#954)

* Setup: Wait step time delta

* Editing

* Updating example screencap for Wait

* Remove login button and make related CSS modular (#949)

* Remove login button and make related CSS modular

* Make login link specific to profile

* Change scss/ to assets/style/ and update README.md

* Fix double space

* Check out .gitignore from main

* Minor README.md tweak

* One more minor README.md tweak

* Add missing backticks

* Fix Log In button for developer.css

* Minor edits

* Slight adjust to CSS in-progress message

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Co-authored-by: Beck <164545837+validbeck@users.noreply.github.com>

* docs: Updated "Manage model finding fields" (#958)

* Edit: DElete model findings

* Edit: Manage model finding fields

* Editing UI wording

* Editing...

* Editing......

* Proofreading

* Edit

* docs: Updated "Manage document templates" (#960)

* Draft: Delete document templates

* Edit: View document templates

* Wrapping up

* Stupid broken link

* Edit: VDV Findings > Observations (#962)

* docs: Update inventory & finding field views (#964)

* Edit: Manage model inventory fields

* Save point

* Edit: Manage model finding fields

* Cleanup

* Proofread

* Adjustments

* Final touch

* Fix bug in Makefile (#935)

* Bug bash: nrichers/sc 12201/disable algolia search on api reference pages (#968)

* Disable Algolia search on Public API reference page

* Fix stray comment indent

* docs: Add shared text blocks to YAML templates (#970)

* Setup: Add library blocks to YAML templates

* Save point

* Save point

* Tidying up

* docs & training: Virtual Document Validator, regulations & policies set up update (#973)

* Draft: Questions from PDF uploads

* Training: Setup for regulations & policies

* Save point

* Save point

* Draft: Administrator Fundamentals update

* Draft: Developer Fundamentals update

* Proofreading

* Hiding PDF upload for VDV (#975)

* Add system access requirements (#977)

* Add initial system access requirements topic

* Text edits

* More edits

* Fix incomplete sentence

* Basic version: Improve navigation for Python API and Public REST API (#966)

* Apply the basic fixes we agreed on

* Remove a:hover experiment

* Update .gitignore

* Underline specific links only

* Address review comments from Beck

* Final CSS tweak

* Update release_notes_check.py (#981)

* Enable release notes checks to post comment with instructions (#984)

* Update release_notes_check.yaml

* Update release_notes_check.py

* Edit: Remove info for add finding via doc section (#978)

* docs: Updated Workflows Approval Step info (#979)

* Edit: Approval step & condition instructions

* Update: Approval Step example

* Add Tidy Layout callout

* Bump versions to 25.10 & v2.9.5 + public release landing page improvements (#971)

* Bump release versions

* Add temporary branch ref

* Fix Makefile help

* Reorder all releases page, bump up length of descriptions shown

* Turn older releases into collapsible section

* Fix YAML

* Fix YAML again

* Add pagination style from release notes portal

* Add button for all feature highlights & add whitespace

* Wording tweak

* Run make get-source

* All releases page tweaks

* Fix broken links

* Change heading to Latest features for consistency

* Address Beck's sidebar suggestion

* Fix date in this repo, too

* Add whitespace before heading

* Remove the branch ref I had THREE reminders for to remove ... (#991)

* docs & training: Calculation Finding Fields (#988)

* Draft: Calculation Finding Fields

* Draft: Calculation Finding Fields in training

* Save point

* Cleaning up

* Proofreading

* Save point

* Update site/guide/model-inventory/_field-types.qmd

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* Update _field-types.qmd

* Applying Andres's code edit

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* Upgrade Tachyons with official codeblock fix & remove our workaround (#995)

* Commit regenerated Python API files and bump version (#997)

* docs: Workflows for findings (#998)

* Setup: Workflows for findings

* Renaming Setting up model workflows page

* Fixing links

* Sidebar link

* Renaming directory

* Fixing broken links pt2

* Cleaning up...

* More cleanup

* More

* More renaming

* Oops

* Almost there

* Stragglers

* One more?

* & includes

* Save point

* Edit: Add new workflows in docs

* Edit: Edit existing workflows in docs

* Edit: Review active workflows in docs

* Edit: Review workflow histories in docs

* Save point

* Edit: Initiate workflows in docs

* Edit: Abort workflows in docs

* Edit: Manage workflow tasks

* Edit: Transition workflows

* More cleaup

* Training: Edit Add new workflows

* Training: Review active workflows

* Training: Review workflow history

* Training: Initiate workflows

* Training: Reset workflows

* Training: Abort workflows

* Training: Transition workflows

* Proofreading

* More proofreading

* ooo figured out a neat conditional hack

* Editing training slides

* Updating single-source templates

* docs & training: Updates to model registration UX (#1003)

* Edit: Register models in inventory

* Quickstart: Register model developer

* Quickstart: Register model validator

* Updating code snippet images

* Updating developer model details image

* Updating validation report details image

* Admin training: Register demo model

* Developer training: Register demo model

* Validator training: Register demo model

* Cleanup

* Proofreading

* Edit: Manage model stakeholder types on registration

* Edit: Manage model stakeholder types on registration training pt1

* Edit: Manage model stakeholder types on registration training pt2

* Edit

* Edit

* Pulling in latest notebooks from sibling PR

* Nrichers/sc 12743/fix quarto docs workflow issue (#1001)

* Remove validmind/ folder and old python-docs.zip file

* Change make python-docs to generate the Python API files

* Add site/validmind to the .gitignore

* Add make python-docs equivalent to workflows

* Try RELEASE_NOTES_RO_PAT

* docs: Workflows User Action v2 step deadlines (#1005)

* Setup: Edits to User Action v2 deadlines

* Save point

* Save point

* Updated example images

* Proofread

* Formatting

* Explicitly install poetry before generating Python API docs

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Co-authored-by: Nik Richers <nik@validmind.ai>

* Setup: Trigger workflow start on date & datetime (#1008)

* Remove Slack sign-up page & update community resources (#1010)

* Remove Slack sign-up page & update community resources

* Minor consistency edit

* Remove sign-up hint I added

* docs: Manage finding severities (#1013)

* Setup: Manage finding severities

* Docs: Manage finding severities

* Training: Manage finding severities

* Cleaning up community page

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Co-authored-by: Beck <164545837+validbeck@users.noreply.github.com>
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