dw_news: Update, 1 September 2010

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Update, 1 September 2010

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

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:

dw_community_promo - the official community promotion community

community_promo - an unofficial community promotion community

create_my_comm - a community for community ideas, in case the community you want doesn't exist yet

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:

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

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
2010-09-02 04:41 am UTC (link)

Fear not. We do hope to add Facebook and Twitter crossposting someday, along with Wordpress, Tumblr, Movable Type/TypePad, etc, etc, but it will have to be set up by the end-user, and if we ever allow the crossposting of comments (which I sincerely doubt we will), it will only be available on locked entries if the comment poster is the same as the entry poster. (So, nobody will be able to crosspost comments from your locked entries.)

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ekmisao
2010-09-02 04:48 am UTC (link)

Thank you.

We'd like to keep that assurance that ranting about the world at large is restricted to people online who we actually want to see that ranting. Often the people we rant to are NOT the people we brush elbows with everyday, the people we are often obliged to add to Facebook for good relations's sake. This is especially true about our geekier or weirder interests, that would raise flak if known by older relatives or employers.

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denise
2010-09-02 04:54 am UTC (link)

Sorry,

sophie let me know that my original comment was a little unclear: I should say, if we do allow crossposting of comments, it will be only available on public entries or when you comment on your own locked entries, not somebody else's. (I think that's a lot easier than people having to go turn on/off the ability for others to crosspost comments on their locked entries!)

Your privacy is absolutely one of our Guiding Principles, and since I've been working in social media since before social media was called social media, I've got a really strong grasp of what 'privacy' entails, especially in the use case of those who use DW most frequently! Besides that, I've got a lot of people (starting with

mark and

fu and going allllll the way on down) who'd come find me with the Mallet of Loving Correction (+5) if I made bad decisions about this. *G* We absolutely believe it's possible to merge interoperability and privacy, as long as we put the choices in your hands, and that's not going to change.

(We also are beholden to nobody but you guys. Paid account subscriptions are the only way we make money, so there is zero economic incentive for us to piss y'all off!)

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	no subject ekmisao 2010-09-02 04:59 am UTC (link)
	LOL. Thank you once again. ^^ (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject timeasmymeasure 2010-09-02 05:00 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for addressing this concern. smishes DW staff (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject soc_puppet 2010-09-02 05:04 am UTC (link)
	Echoing the thanks for reassurance. I totally love DW best ;) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject briarwood 2010-09-02 05:08 am UTC (link)
	And that's why I'm happy to pay for a premium account here :) You guys are fab. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject patkica 2010-09-02 05:34 am UTC (link)
	Thank you for the reassurance. :) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject ketsu 2010-09-02 05:35 am UTC (link)
	Thank you. I love you so much ♥ (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject thblackflame 2010-09-02 05:37 am UTC (link)
	Thank you, Denise. That is exactly my issue with the blow up on lj. Not so much about privacy for me, the issue is that lj has taken my choice away in this. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject syderia 2010-09-02 05:44 am UTC (link)
	Thank you for this. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject stealth_noodle 2010-09-02 11:47 am UTC (link)
	Thanks so much for the reassurance. ♥ (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject howlingforever 2010-09-02 03:32 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for addressing this. :) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject ily 2010-09-02 04:53 am UTC (link)
	LJ should have thought this out like you have. I'm glad to have my account(s) here. :) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject denise 2010-09-02 05:22 am UTC (link)
	And I am really glad that you have your account(s) here, too! Seriously, we couldn't do this without y'all -- there'd be no point in doing all this work if nobody were using the site. I like to call DW "an experiment in radical business transparency", and so far, it's been working really well :) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject 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. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject denise 2010-09-02 07:45 am UTC (link)
	Welcome to DW. I hope you enjoy it here :) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject denise 2010-09-02 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	Now that OpenID accounts can join/post entries in communities, someone is working on comm import! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject muccamukk 2010-09-06 04:39 pm UTC (link)
	That's great. I would totally use FB crossposting for my own meatspace journal posts. Save me having to wander over and repost links. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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