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Hi Dreamwidth!

I've been stuck with a craving for Lucky Charms (they're grrrreat! And are for kids, silly rabbit), so I've been having that for breakfast this entire week. Also had it for lunch this one time a cat leaped up onto the dining table and ate my lunch for me. Hey, at least the cat didn't get my cereal.

Anyway let me just hand off my cereal bowl and we can start with the update.


A Warm Welcome


We've noticed a lot of new members this week! Welcome to those of you who are coming from LiveJournal -- you might want to check out the Guide to Dreamwidth for LiveJournal Users.

Last Week's Progress


This week's code tour was done by the ever awesome [personal profile] cesy.

That brings us to exactly 2002 bugs which have been resolved fixed, and almost 2300 bugs that have been resolved in some way. This week also brought us another milestone: I filed our 3000th bug!

Since our bug list contains planned features and code cleanup as well as actual bugs, I'm really proud of this milestone.

This Week's Request for Feedback



We have another version of the update Create Entry page up for feedback.

And first of all thank you to everyone who left feedback for the last version! We weren't able to respond to everyone individually, but we read all your comments and tried to take all of them into account while working on this latest version.

The short list of changes is:

  • less options on page startup

  • ability to customize the page so it fits your posting habits

  • full list of tags

  • editable individual tags

  • fix for the red flash issue

  • tweaks for older browsers, including better support for resizing

  • various appearance and behavior tweaks



Play around with it a bit :)


We built in drag and drop functionality for mouse users. We are aware that this only works for mouse users, and we'll be working on ways to have something that will work for everyone, not just mouse users.

We'll also start integrating the mockup into the backend soon, which means that the next time we do this, the mockup should respect your site scheme and use your icons/tags/etc (it still won't remember your settings, though, and it won't work to actually post).

Communities that Link to Other Communities that Link to Other Communities


This week's theme for community plugs is communities that link to other communities to get you started on finding and making those communities that you're interested in:


And finally, some links that don't fit into the theme, because I've said "community" so much that it doesn't look like a real word anymore:

  • [community profile] getting_started - for any questions you may have about getting started here on Dreamwidth

  • interests search, to search for people and comms which share your interests

  • site search, to search by keyword for posts about topics you're interested in

  • the latest entries page, to see the latest public entries posted to Dreamwidth. Also possible to see the latest public entries with a specific tag


Equally Warm Goodbye


And that's it for this week. Rest of this month is [staff profile] denise's as per usual. As always, if you're having problems with Dreamwidth, Support can help you; for notices of site problems and downtime, check the Twitter status page; if you've got an idea to make the site better, you can make a suggestion.

See you again next week!

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denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (me, standing outside a broken phone booth)


[staff profile] denise
2010-09-02 07:34 am UTC (link)
*g* No worries. It can be confusing!

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ratcreature: Word. RatCreature nods. (word.)


[personal profile] ratcreature
2010-09-02 07:39 am UTC (link)
Me too. I frequently use mood but never the other two.

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sorchasilver: (Gen: Map 1)


[personal profile] sorchasilver
2010-09-02 07:41 am UTC (link)
I understand that there is a reason to want them apart for some users, but since you are putting customisation into the design, is there a reason this can't this also be customisable? I don't hit delete when I mean post, and the current positioning really bugs me. If I could put the buttons where they work best for me, then this wouldn't be an issue at all.

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denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (me, standing outside a broken phone booth)


[staff profile] denise
2010-09-02 07:41 am UTC (link)
This makes me happy! And if you find a case where it doesn't, it's a bug and you should let support know about it. (Even though we facepalm and say "oh, Opera" a lot. It's ... quirky.)

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spes_unica: (alecicon)


[personal profile] spes_unica
2010-09-02 07:41 am UTC (link)
Thank you for that promise.
Yrs truly,
migrating a year earlier than she had planned because of one too many LJ f***-ups.

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denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (me, standing outside a broken phone booth)


[staff profile] denise
2010-09-02 07:45 am UTC (link)
Welcome to DW. I hope you enjoy it here :)

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noracharles: (myrna, nora)


[personal profile] noracharles
2010-09-02 07:47 am UTC (link)
LOL. Will do :-)

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jumpuphigh: Pigeon with text "jumpuphigh" (pigeon)


[personal profile] jumpuphigh
2010-09-02 07:55 am UTC (link)
This is, I believe, our third round of "what do the consumers think" with the posting page transformation. Each time, [staff profile] fu and whoever else is working on it that round takes our comments and works on making it better. We, the users, get to help create this online home that we will be living in. It's so amazingly wonderful and makes me tear up if I talk about it too much.

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ratcreature: RL? What RL? RatCreature is a net addict. (what rl?)


[personal profile] ratcreature
2010-09-02 08:00 am UTC (link)
I agree with the comment above that the drag and drop indicators are not very noticable. At first when I clicked the customization mode I didn't see these drag and drop indicators either. The drag and drop text was below my first screen and the dashed line around the boxes is so faint I didn't notice it. I managed to display and not to display things, but kept wondering why I couldn't drag things in regular mode after I saved which to display. I mean, I like that it doesn't drag in regular mode, but I didn't notice that there was a drag option during the customization. Also the radio button for the "Full-width entry field" didn't make it look any different from the other radio button, so that confused me as well.

But I like it otherwise.

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arethinn: purplish-white swirls on black background (general (bubble chamber))


[personal profile] arethinn
2010-09-02 08:00 am UTC (link)
We have another version of the update Create Entry page up for feedback.

Tea: Earl Grey, hot - LOL!

I want to know what "Cake cake wonderful cake" is about though. I FEEL UNDERINFORMED

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andraste: Why, yes, this is my tentacle sex icon ... (Shiny Objects)


[personal profile] andraste
2010-09-02 08:00 am UTC (link)
Is there somewhere it's legal for a woman to marry an 'update journal' page? Because I would like to propose marriage to this one if so. Hooray for being able to put everything where I want it and only see the options I'm using!

The only thing I'd change is that I'd prefer the options column on the right rather than the left; if it's possible to have it turn up in either position according to user preference that would be good.

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laitaine: (dreamwidth - yay)


[personal profile] laitaine
2010-09-02 08:15 am UTC (link)
New update page is PERFECT. You guys win everything. ♥

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soc_puppet: Drawing of a smiling fish skeleton (Fishbone)

Re: New Create Entry page


[personal profile] soc_puppet
2010-09-02 08:22 am UTC (link)
2) Have you tried the nice little collapse arrows by the options? They keep the option on the screen, but you can open or close it at will. It doesn't remove them completely, if that's what you were hoping for, but it does minimize the space they take up.

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feathertail: (pic#344098)


[personal profile] feathertail
2010-09-02 08:26 am UTC (link)
I do like it a lot better! The only complaint I have this time is that the subject field and text entry areas are very wide, and that could make them hard to read.

The red makes it seem visually busy, but that's why I use the lilac theme.

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denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (me, standing outside a broken phone booth)


[staff profile] denise
2010-09-02 08:27 am UTC (link)
also, lucky charms > all. except possibly this demo.

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denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (me, standing outside a broken phone booth)


[staff profile] denise
2010-09-02 08:30 am UTC (link)
Yeah, that's all why I don't like the idea of allowing the crosspost of comments in the first place -- it just feels oodgy to me. I know there are people who want it ([personal profile] matgb keeps reminding me that his use case is so not the use case I think of first, or even fifth -- he's a classic example of a combo Betty/Patty, and that's pretty orthogonal to how I use DW, but that's why I keep him around!) but I'd think it would be easy enough to copy/paste if one wanted to xpost one's comment to someone else's entry.

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nextian: From below, a woman and a flock of birds. (in flight)


[personal profile] nextian
2010-09-02 08:32 am UTC (link)
The new update page is AWESOME, except for that clicking on "full-sized entry field" vs "options column next to entry field" doesn't cause any changes on my page! I'm running Mac 10.5.8 and Camino 2.0.4.

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lanterne_rouee: dreamwidth: (ooo, shiny!) (dw shiny)


[personal profile] lanterne_rouee
2010-09-02 08:33 am UTC (link)
woo-hoo! i'm so excited about this.

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soc_puppet: Drawing of a smiling fish skeleton (Something fishy here)


[personal profile] soc_puppet
2010-09-02 08:35 am UTC (link)
Since the temporary page is just a temporary page, I'm pretty sure you're not too worried about this part, but it amused me, so I wanted to share. I just tried to go to my reading page from the trial Create Entry page out of habit. It told me that there was no journal called "exampleuser" created yet.

My first thought: I hope I don't end up running into a wild Missingno. after that temporary name change; that'd totally wreck up my Hall of Fame data.

Thanks for all the hard work ^__^

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jumpuphigh: Pigeon with text "jumpuphigh" (pigeon)


[personal profile] jumpuphigh
2010-09-02 08:38 am UTC (link)
Create-entries-demo

Seriously, the best thing ever. For the first time during this whole process I am completely and utterly satisfied. Thank you Thank you Thank you

*hands [staff profile] fu, [personal profile] hope and [staff profile] denise cookies*

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hope: Art of a woman writing from tour poster (who killed amanda palmer)


[personal profile] hope
2010-09-02 08:52 am UTC (link)
What screen resolution are you viewing it on? The column automatically collapses below the content when the browser window is narrower than a certain width.

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hope: Art of a woman writing from tour poster (who killed amanda palmer)


[personal profile] hope
2010-09-02 08:52 am UTC (link)
Also the radio button for the "Full-width entry field" didn't make it look any different from the other radio button, so that confused me as well.

What screen resolution are you viewing it on? The column automatically collapses below the content when the browser window is narrower than a certain width.

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noxie: friendly girl smiling (!beamy jack)


[personal profile] noxie
2010-09-02 08:58 am UTC (link)
I LOVE the new update page! Thank you so much for tags checkboxes! That makes me all kinds of happy. And being able to customize the page - wow, how awesome! Can't wait for it to go live.

<3

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azurelunatic: Seated baby in incubator shell with electrodes. (Cyteen)


[personal profile] azurelunatic
2010-09-02 08:58 am UTC (link)
It's great for dogpiling -- er, I mean, 'encouraging discussion'.

I like it because I am Lucy Lifeblogger (Ariane Archivist?), but basically I'm using it as part of a complicated dodge to put links to everything I have seen, heard, or read into my journal on the day I do it. A private compilation of all comments I've made today, posted every 24 hours, under a cut, would suit my needs perfectly and without the need for a workaround.

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pensnest: bright-eyed baby me (babyme)


[personal profile] pensnest
2010-09-02 09:02 am UTC (link)
Exactly! I can put the boxes where I want them.

*worships [staff profile] fu*

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