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1. A discussions sidebar will enable learners to interact with forums alongside course content (details here). Beta testing is in progress.

2. Forum notifications will be rendered in an in-platform notifications centre, and also dispensed via email and edx mobile app using a 3rd party delivery service. Discovery is in progress.

3. A UI upgrade to increase content density. Development in progress.

4. An option to sort responses and comments by Newest first and Oldest first.

Short demo of new discussions experience

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