dw_news | Dreamwidth (quick) Update: 24 July 2011

Hey all -- I'm sorry about the radio silence for the past few weeks (I've torn my rotator cuff and dislocated my wrist, and have been on minimal-typing for a while). I was hoping things would improve enough for me to do a full update, but enough people have been asking that I'll at least do a quick-hits:

* Check out

erika's first Code Tour for development news.

* For the rest of 2011, we're concentrating on Mission: Feature Development. August's hackathon is usability bugs, so if you've been thinking of diving into DW development, check out the usability Bugzilla keyword for a list of the bugs eligible for a points bounty.

* We're increasing the bounty on styles submitted to

dreamscapes, to help recognize the fact that creating a style is far more involved than creating a theme.

* Speaking of, there are new styles available for your journal: Five AM is now live, and Crisped and Dusty Foot will be going live with the next code push.

* I've been working on the

dw_suggestions backlog, and will be moving more things over to Bugzilla in the coming weeks, so if you haven't stopped by for a while to give your opinion, now's the time.

I will be back with a more detailed update as soon as I can type more reliably! In the meantime, if you're having problems, Support is standing by to help you.

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Oh, I do need to tell you and say thank you for such a fast import-journal service. Because of the data crash I imported my LJ archive to DW, and even if I had 5 years worth of posts, it was done within half an hour! Thank you!

thanks to you, I hope you have a speedy recovery! Many thanks for your service, very much is pleasant to us, as here all conveniently and accurately and pleasantly for eyes and soul.

levkonoe is one of my very favourite journals because of the beautiful art she posts every day. :)

8)))

(sorry my awful english)

Sorry to hear about the injuries. :( Feel better soon, and thank you for the update!

Ow ow ow ow! I hope there's a really great story behind your wrist and rotator cuff injury, Denise. Because I share your rotator cuff pain, but OMG dislocated wrist? I can't even imagine. (Well, I can, but I'm better off not doing.) Here's wishing you a fast and complete recovery of strength, stability, and range of motion!

No interesting story, I'm afraid, just the fun of having a genetic disorder that mostly affects my joints. Fortunately it also usually carries fast healing with it, which means that I'm starting to get better; the shoulder is still wonky, but after two weeks of wearing a wrist brace nearly around the clock, my wrist seems to be stabilized enough to type with at the very least.

(The wrist tends to pop out fairly regularly, usually three or four times a year; I've gotten good at reducing the dislocations and subluxations myself. Some people pop their knuckles before typing; I pop my wrists to re-settle them! This time it went out from me lying on the floor to play with the cat, then trying to push myself back up to sitting position. Lean weight on wrist, wrist goes pop...)

I hope your shoulder gets better quickly, too!

Oh, my shoulder is fine. Well, with monthly massages, anyway. :)

I have a friend with connective tissue disorder that sounds much like EDS; with her it's her hips. *sympathy*

Oh yeah, my hips are a lost cause. My right hip subluxates regularly, and the muscles around it are screamingly screwed up because of it (trying to hold the joint in place, replacing the function of the tendons which have just totally given up). I can't walk without a cane half the time, and I've got a manual wheelchair I use for any time I need to walk more than about a hundred yards or so.

I keep saying, I will be first in line to upload myself to the Matrix!

Oh dear, you poor thing. Please take care and recover asap.

I hope you feel better soon, Denise.

sheesh! what are you - Dangergrrl???!!!
take care - hope you heal up sharpish!

Get well soon Denise. I have basicly a stuffed back and shoulders, with no idea as to the cause or reason. Also they are unable to find the cause.

I hope all that typing on the updates about the technical problems hasn't made it worse again! Thanks for keeping us in the loop.

Oh, gosh, I hope you recover swiftly! Thanks for the update!

I hope you feel better soon. My little brother bashed his to the point he couldn't play baseball anymore. I know the slow recovery and time it takes. Just kind of chill down. You don't want to ruin your arm while getting itchy fingers.

Are you ever not injured?

I've always got the usual chronic stuff going on, but this has been a bad year for additional bits of my body breaking down, yeah. :/

I don't know if it has been mentioned yet or not, but it seems that content searching isn't working right now, for some reason. It says it isn't configured on the server.

This is part of the site slowdown issues we've been working to mitigate this week -- check out

dw_maintenance for more detail. (We had to press the search server into service as a temporary webserver.)

Oh, okay. I checked the maintenance journal a couple days ago but hadn't checked it since then. I hope it doesn't stay like that long. I didn't use the function often, but it really was helpful when I needed it.

So...kind of just throwing this question out there: are you confident that Dw is going to last?

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Ouchie, Denise. No wonder the lull! Hope you get better soon! ♥

Hello, I hope you're better now ? I wanted to ask something. There is no hurry about replying, really. But plz do advise when you are able to.

I want to import my lj to here. Possibly now wouldn't be a good time, what with - I'm quite sure - many ppl doing the same. Perhaps I should wait a week or 10 days or so ? Please give me some idea. I'm asking because it would possibly be a fair bit of stuff - given I've been on lj since latish 2004.

Yeah, go ahead and start the import -- the queue is just fine now :)

Gosh :) Thank you so much. I will initiate it tomorrow/day after - in the weekend - then :)

And you're better now ? Be well :) Take care.

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