Code push shortly

[mark]

Olá de Lisboa! (I'm in Lisbon right now for work...)

Thank you everybody who has tested on canary - I'm about to push the code up to stable. I know that not everything has been tested and there's a lot in this deploy, so I expect some things to break or be weird. We have ported a lot more of the "older" pages to the newer formats, so there will be some UI changes in a few places, but it shouldn't be anything too major.

Watch for: One thing I know will require tuning, we now have added rate limits (which basically allows us to control how rapidly DW pages are loaded.) This is a protection mostly designed against bots, but any time in my career I've rolled out new rate limits, I've learned someone is hitting them and they have to be tuned. So if you see them, please let me know!

Anyway please do comment and I'll work to fix things today. We also have a rollback ready in case we need to (and I'll be honest, I expect we may need to... we really should do more frequent deploys.)

Known Issues

• Fixed: Search has gone walkabout.
• Fixed: Some UI weirdness with Manage Tags.
• Fixed: Login redirects are not working.
• Fixed: Login page sometimes returning 'invalid form submission.'
• Fixed: Rename keywords checkbox on icons page also gone walkabout.
• Fixed: Uploading large icon files erroring / not going to the image editor.

As always, thank you for your patience and supporting our scrappy little service!

Comments

[zavodilaterrarium]

Hoping nothing too major goes wrong!

[mystical_journey]

On adding makers credits to my icon page I kept getting bad gateways when trying to load the pages. Also, there was a long load lag in getting to communities or friends profile pages.

[mark]

Is it still giving any bad gateways? I am not surprised if that briefly happened during the deploy.

[havocthecat]

Best of luck!

[toothpastepancake]

Thanks for all you do!

[nosrednayduj]

So I don't know if this is old behavior or not, but my login expired (as it periodically does), and I didn't realize it, and I clicked on "inbox" where I had (1) messages noted from before it expired, and instead of sending me to a login page, it sent me to the top level.

My usual experience when my login expires is that what I'm doing is clicking refresh to see if there are any new messages in my feed, and then it shows me "you are reading nosrednayduj's feed" including the little login dialog at the upper left.

I can reproduce this by being logged out and entering https://www.dreamwidth.org/inbox/ which then redirects to https://www.dreamwidth.org/?returnto=/inbox/ . I didn't notice the little login button in the upper right (which I just noticed when reproducing it), because I'm used to seeing the place in the upper left when I'm in my reading page.

I am using the web interface with Vivaldi.

[mark]

Ah! Yeah not redirecting the login correctly is a bug, fixing it - thank you!

[phormthevixdjinn]

Thanks much for all your hard work!! It's always deeply appreciated.

Just to add a data point: This morning, while my session was able to see my inbox and the dreamwidth domain, whenever I tried to visit my own page or reading page, it would throw an error after what looked like a consistent redirect loop. Firefox just presented this error as "There's something wrong, try again later" without too much information. If I tried to access those pages on a logged-out browser, no issues at all.

Logging out and back in again seems to have solved it. But it was strange in the moment, because I could still see most everything I would if I were logged in (inbox, configuration page, etc.). For some reason it was only the pages associated with a domain that wasn't just www.dreamwidth.org that threw problems for me.

[denise]

This can happen if you hit a page at exactly the wrong time during a deploy: if it's still happening, clear your browser cache and try again!

[j00j]

Thanks for all you do! Working for me so far (basic reading of my reading page and commenting)

[pangolin20]

I see the "Work as" dropdown on the Manage Tags page stretches across the entire page.

[mark]

Thank you! That whole page is ugly and terrible, but that dropdown is beyond the pale. I'll fix it!

[villain_jack]

message counter frozen since then.
at least for me.

[mark]

What is the message counter? I'm not sure what that means.

[paserbyp]

mark do you want to test Porto in your Lisbon visit?

[mark]

Happy to take a recommendation if you have one! I had some at a tasca last night, while listening to some fado - but it was whatever they had and I don't know what's good.

[annabeth_roses]

I just loaded the new upload icon page and noticed that if renaming keywords, the "rename keywords" check box is gone. Is that feature gone? It was really useful. Or is it coming back at some point?

[zavodilaterrarium]

I see the check box still in the code, but it's set to "display: none". Dunno for what reason.

[pasafatu]

I was getting a weird error when trying to upload a new icon, didn't realise there was a code push happening! This might be part of that?

The files appear to attach, I add a keyword, when I hit "proceed" I get this:

> Couldn't parse upload: No data from client. Possibly a refresh?

I tried with the same icon I uploaded successfully about 12 hours ago and it still didn't work, same error, so assuming something changed between then and now.

[denise]

Those errors can happen during a code push if you hit the exact wrong moment in loading the site! Can you clear your browser cache and try again to see if it works now?

[ranunculus]

Periodically the "Image Properties" pop up box takes forever to load. When it is stalled like this it sometimes times out and I have to close it and re-open. Usually it then just pops back up. Is this just a "bots are attacking the site" or "way too many users for the server" or ? It has been happening for some months now.

[denise]

Do you mean the box you get when you hit "inspect image" (or whatever it's called in your browser)? That's rendered locally, so any delay is because your browser is struggling to render it, possibly because of a browser extension: try it again with extensions disabled and see if that fixes it. If it does, you can use the bisect technique: re-enable half your extensions, if the problem starts up again it's one of those and if not it's one of the other half, then disable everything again and just enable half of the half that had the problem, so on and so forth until you narrow it down to the one that's the issue. And if that's not what you mean, can you describe what you mean by the "image properties" box and how you're triggering it?

[princessofgeeks]

Thank you so much for this site!!!! I don't know what I would do without it.

[cmcmck]

I can think of worse places to be! :o)

[notapancake]

Dunno if this is just cause I'm doing this on mobile, but every time I try to login via the login on a profile page I get this error and I'm not logged in/have to login on a different page. Been happening within the past hour or so. Also it's mobile chrome for the browser if that helps.

Also thank you guys for all your hard work.

[declarations]

not just you, i've been getting that too

[kitarella_imagines]

Thank you for all you do on DW, it's one of my favourite sites!

[majoukoufu]

Since search has been mentioned and this seems to have just happened: search seems to working differently than it did a couple days ago - quotes aren't impacting my queries anymore for certain searches. Used to be if I searched for, e.g. "tales of" (in quotes), it would still be a little fuzzy, but iirc only turning up things that were either "tales of" or "tale of." Now it turns up every post with the world "tale/tales" in it, regardless of whether the following word is "of" or not.

Replicated with "dive in" bringing up a lot of dive, dove, and diving with no in following them, "climb over" excluding over. But "big cat" was all "[big/bigger/biggest] [cat/cats]," and "blue wings" always turned up "blue [wing/wings/winged]," so it may be related to prepositions, word frequency, or such perhaps.

Thank you for all your work on this site!

[mark]

Thank you for the thorough report - this is "intentional" but I am open to hearing feedback on it. We were creating a search index on every word, including words like "the" or "and" or "in", and it turns out those words are very common (ha)... so our search index was getting quite large.

Removing these words makes it cheaper and faster, and I was betting that 98% of the time they're not super useful for search. But if it turns out I'm wrong and everybody is using them, I can reindex to include them.

[unphase]

I keep getting a "Couldn't parse upload: No data from client. Possibly a refresh?" error when trying to upload a picture to make an icon.

Any news on how to fix this or when it will be fixed?

[mark]

Fix incoming - will deploy soon!

[yourlibrarian]

I hit a 502 twice just now. Also I was interested to hear about the rate limit issues because I've found Dreamwidth intermittently slow to load for some months now.

[owl]

Anyone else seeing FFA comment search stopping at 2026-06-25?

The chonky meme maybe broke something again.

[mark]

It stops in the future? Are we prognosticating?

[garryowen]

🙏🏼

[hauntedrose]

Hello!

I'm actually still getting the following whenever I try to log in via my profile page:

Error

Invalid form submission. Please go back and try again.

[matsushima]

I wanted to pop in and say that this scrappy little service is the center of my internet social life. I could live without Instagram, Discord, Bluesky, etc., but if Dreamwidth went down for good? I genuinely don't know what I'd do with myself.

[mark]

Aw, thanks. Love to hear that. :)

[ravenna]

Occasionally, while trying to navigate the shop links both via the drop down/nav header and within the dedicated page with individual links, a link that looks like it should go to https://shop.dreamwidth.org will load to https://shop.dreamwidth.org/shop, and not work? Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't, I haven't been able to reliably replicate it.

I can never find a link anywhere on site to go to the page that reverts paid time back into points, is that intentionally mysterious?

On the new icon management page, there's no space between "Description:" and the box to fill in the description, and the : is squished into it. Checked on Firefox and Chrome. (I am also hoping for the return of the replace keywords ticky, but I see that's been addressed, thank you!)

Is it intentional that everything is in one column on the icon manage page? I feel like in the past the icons were next to the upload control box, is this the new design or my browser settings?

Thanks for all your work as always! Hope you're enjoying Portugal even if it's for work.