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Weekly Update: August 12
Hello, Dreamwidth! There is currently a hole in our bathroom shower wall. Maintenance swore they'd have it completely fixed by today. Considering that there's only half an hour left of today's working hours ... I think we might be showering in the downstairs exercise room again today. (Ew.)
Thankfully, we've been a lot less remiss in finishing and fixing things here on DW. Let's go through the week's announcements, and I'll save the best for last.
Development this week has mostly gone to bugfixes from last week's code push, all of which are now live. You can check out the week's code tour if you're curious. Welcome this week goes to new contributor![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cpm!
We think we've caught most of the bugfixes from the last code push, but if there's anything that you're still having problems with, let Support know!
This code push finally fixed the ability for us to merge duplicate feed accounts into one, so I went ahead and did all the ones that people reported a while back. From here, if you notice duplicate feed accounts (two feed accounts pulling the same content, even if it's not the same feed URL), please report them to Support -- they'll be able to fix them up for you.
Our last code push made it so that people can display the entry management links in their styles as either text or icons, which a lot of people have asked for! We have a lot of themes by now, though, so some of them have turned out to have display problems. We're fixing those, but if you've got a few minutes, stop in and give![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_styles a hand in checking themes to make sure there aren't any more problems we're missing.
It's been a while since we've had community-of-the-week here in news updates, and I'd like to bring it back! This week,pauamma suggests ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
forkedtongues, a community for discussion about languages, translations, and the experience of being multilingual.
If you've got an active community that you love and want more members for, or are looking for some new communities to join, check outdw_community_promo.
I did promise the best for last, right?
A little while ago, we unveiled the first draft of our new update page (being revised as the first step to adding draft & scheduled posts functionality). We got some great feedback (and thank you to everyone who left it!), and we're now ready to show you guys version 2.0.
This version incorporates most of the feedback you guys left, and is a result of some great partnership work betweenfu and hope, whose mad design skills has taken my initial crappy pencil sketches and fu's much more awesome first draft and done a lot of work on them.
Things to note for this version:
* As suggested, we've moved the draft and scheduled post management onto another page (which hasn't been turned into a working version yet, but we do have the first mockups of that done -- we'll show that one off in a few weeks.)
* We've moved around a lot of options to the places people said they'd rather see them, so hopefully it will be more intuitive for people to use.
* We've fixed up a lot of the visual presentation, so the eye travels more smoothly across the screen.
* We've done a bunch of bugfixes, so any problems you reported in the last round should be fixed by now.
Like last time, this is still a demo; it won't work to post entries to your journal, and it won't use your tags or your icons. Give it another look and see what else you can suggest for us to improve it further:
Create Entries Demo 2.0
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That's it for us for another week! 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.
We'll see you next week (when hopefully the hole in my bathroom wall will be fixed) for our next update.
Thankfully, we've been a lot less remiss in finishing and fixing things here on DW. Let's go through the week's announcements, and I'll save the best for last.
Development
Development this week has mostly gone to bugfixes from last week's code push, all of which are now live. You can check out the week's code tour if you're curious. Welcome this week goes to new contributor
cpm!We think we've caught most of the bugfixes from the last code push, but if there's anything that you're still having problems with, let Support know!
Feeds
This code push finally fixed the ability for us to merge duplicate feed accounts into one, so I went ahead and did all the ones that people reported a while back. From here, if you notice duplicate feed accounts (two feed accounts pulling the same content, even if it's not the same feed URL), please report them to Support -- they'll be able to fix them up for you.
Styles
Our last code push made it so that people can display the entry management links in their styles as either text or icons, which a lot of people have asked for! We have a lot of themes by now, though, so some of them have turned out to have display problems. We're fixing those, but if you've got a few minutes, stop in and give
dw_styles a hand in checking themes to make sure there aren't any more problems we're missing.Communities
It's been a while since we've had community-of-the-week here in news updates, and I'd like to bring it back! This week,
pauamma suggests forkedtongues, a community for discussion about languages, translations, and the experience of being multilingual. If you've got an active community that you love and want more members for, or are looking for some new communities to join, check out
dw_community_promo.Update Page
I did promise the best for last, right?
A little while ago, we unveiled the first draft of our new update page (being revised as the first step to adding draft & scheduled posts functionality). We got some great feedback (and thank you to everyone who left it!), and we're now ready to show you guys version 2.0.
This version incorporates most of the feedback you guys left, and is a result of some great partnership work between
fu and hope, whose mad design skills has taken my initial crappy pencil sketches and fu's much more awesome first draft and done a lot of work on them.Things to note for this version:
* As suggested, we've moved the draft and scheduled post management onto another page (which hasn't been turned into a working version yet, but we do have the first mockups of that done -- we'll show that one off in a few weeks.)
* We've moved around a lot of options to the places people said they'd rather see them, so hopefully it will be more intuitive for people to use.
* We've fixed up a lot of the visual presentation, so the eye travels more smoothly across the screen.
* We've done a bunch of bugfixes, so any problems you reported in the last round should be fixed by now.
Like last time, this is still a demo; it won't work to post entries to your journal, and it won't use your tags or your icons. Give it another look and see what else you can suggest for us to improve it further:
Create Entries Demo 2.0
*
That's it for us for another week! 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.
We'll see you next week (when hopefully the hole in my bathroom wall will be fixed) for our next update.
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I find the location of post and delete to be counter-intuitive. I would also like them a little bit closer together. If I recall, they were moved apart originally to make it less likely to hit one on accident? Which I think is good. But maybe have them 1/3 and 2/3 of the way in instead of at opposite ends.
I don't particularly have an issue with the size of the text box for the entries, but I do agree that it would be nicer to have all the various boxes on a level below the text box, instead of having some on the side. It could even be some on top, some on bottom the way the post entry page is set up now. A single column just works a lot better for me.
I hope any of that is helpful and I look forward to the next iteration.