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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vanessagalore
2010-09-02 05:59 am UTC (link)

I very much appreciate your assurances here. However, I really hope that if you decide to allow crossposting of comments on public entries that you will consider offering a way for the journal owner to disable it without friends-locking the entry. I'd like to post fic publicly, but don't want it showing up on Facebook (because I don't trust *Facebook's* privacy controls, at all, and I'm alarmed at how cavalier they are about my personal information).

Perhaps I'm being completely reactionary about privacy, and I do have a lot of faith in your business model based on what I've seen in the last 15 months, but this stuff always sets me off. Lately I feel like a ranting lunatic...I recently posted on my Facebook about the new settings issues (how to disable the latest round of sneaky privacy setting changes) and now I'm greeted with that post in the sidebar every time I go to a Slate site or other "Facebook Connect" partners (even though I've turned off EVERY SINGLE option that allows Facebook to share my info). They are impossible, and I really hope you stay clear of them.

I'm hoping that Facebook implodes one day soon, so we can rid of this inane urge to check out our high school boyfriend/girlfriend's wrinkles/weight gain/job loss. It's like schadenfreude plus loser peeping Toms, all in one, and it's free!! that is, if you don't care who's data scraping. (I unfortunately must maintain a Facebook page for my real career, since fandom doesn't pay the bills.)

I hope you get a lot of new paying customers out of this lj debacle. You deserve them, for all the hard work you've done, and for the stellar job you've done trying to be responsive to your customer base.

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	no subject holyschist 2010-09-02 06:50 am UTC (link)
	I'm kind of squiffy about making it super-easy to post links to FB too, even with public stuff--I'd rather people had to go to the effort of manually making those links if they REALLY want to. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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arethinn
2010-09-02 07:01 am UTC (link)

I really hope that if you decide to allow crossposting of comments on public entries that you will consider offering a way for the journal owner to disable it without friends-locking the entry.

Conceptually, isn't that as easy (however easy it is) as other per-post settings, such as whether to crosspost it to other journals, disable comments, or turn of email notifications?

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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 (

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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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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	no subject musyc 2010-09-02 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	That design persona list is fascinating. I've just discovered I'm mostly an Ivy with very small touches of Patty. :D (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject denise 2010-09-02 09:03 pm UTC (link)
	I'm a one-site Patty with very small touches of Ivy. g (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject jesse_the_k 2010-09-03 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Clearly there's an opportunity for a FPF-ficwriting comm populated by DW's user-case personalities. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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matgb
2010-09-03 08:07 pm UTC (link)

I didn't know it existed. I most certainly didn't know D has decided what type I was and would tell others. I'm guessing some people might be offended, but I'm chuckling.

Betty gets a sense of reward from being spoken highly of in whatever targeted audience she's speaking to

Oh, wait, yeah. I used to have a screename on a gaming forum called Arrogance. Nearly got a card named after me, but the game folded :-(

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	no subject denise 2010-09-03 09:15 pm UTC (link)
	I figured you wouldn't mind. ;) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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matgb
2010-09-03 08:13 pm UTC (link)

I will stop feeling a bit guilty when I bug you about stuff you haven't thought of then ;-)

I have doubts about crossposting comments (it would never have occured to me to suggest it, although the fuss has got new ideas filtering through the head), but having tried it, it can be useful, and given I can already Share public stuff on FB in a way that appears almost the same as the way LJ does stuff with their app, making it slightly easier to do something I can already do is, well, something Patty likes...

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	no subject scrollgirl 2010-09-10 07:50 am UTC (link)
	Perhaps it's the fact that cross-posting leaves a link directing FB users back to DW. If it was simply a matter of cross-posting text, a comment without a link, it'd be harder to track back to your journal. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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