Weekly Update: 21 December 2009

[mark]

Happy Holidays!

Dreamwidth is humming along, and this week's update promises to be short and to the point. I'm currently out of town in North Dakota visiting my family (hello, Mom!) and we're relaxing in the living room about to watch the video of my wedding which we just got recently... ah, holidays!

1. Spam Update

Our anti-spam team has an update for you this week. There were 79 reports of spam, of which 78 were actually valid spams. We've taken care of banning the IP addresses and account that was spamming us, and we're working to build better tools (and analyze LJ's latest anti-spam tools) to see if we can automate this some.

Thank you to all of you that report spam when you see it! That is the best way for us to be able to identify where spam is coming from and get rid of it.

2. Gradation Vertical

If you don't know what I'm talking about, last code push we released a new site scheme -- a different way of browsing the Dreamwidth site. If you haven't seen it yet, you can get a look at it here:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/?usescheme=gradation-vertical-local

It's a dark scheme designed to provide an alternative to the bright schemes we have right now. If you want to use this scheme yourself, you can set that in your Manage Account page, Display tab:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=display

Anyway, this is a new site scheme and there are still some bits that aren't quite right yet. If you like it and would like to help us improve it, please see this post by foxfirefey:

http://dw-dev.dreamwidth.org/33203.html

Thanks for helping out!

3. Development

Not much to say for development this week. What with myself and most other people being out or busy for the end of December, it's going to be pretty slow around here as far as code development goes.

For this week we will skip the code and bug tours, and instead I will personally thank all of the people who make this possible. Thank you!

4. Wrap-up

Well, that's the end of this short update. Happy Holidays if you celebrate something, and if not, I hope you enjoy your week!

Comments

[aqualegia]

Is there any way I can stop getting two copies of these announcements in my mailbox?

[denise]

My check shows that you have a regular user account and an OpenID account -- you might want to check that the OpenID account doesn't have news notifications on. (If you really can't figure it out, check the full headers of the notification; it will include which account received the email.)