Code push planned

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It's been over two months(!) since our last code push, and in that time we've done a great deal of work -- four code tours' worth.

None of these are live yet, but highlights to look forward to are:

• lots and lots of color themes (I am serious, there are a lot!)


• more sites that work with <user name="username" site="..."> tags: etsy.com


• support for embedding iframes from more sites, including youtube's privacy-enhanced mode, bandcamp.com, blip.tv, dailymotion.com, dotsub.com, Google Mas, nicovideo.jp, sbs.com.au, scribd.com, slideshare.net, vimeo.com


• the ability to leave/join communities via the Manage Circle page


• poll interface improvements: the ability to collapse answers after viewing them, changing your vote no longer requires opening a new page, your own poll answers are marked when viewing results


• notes when banning a user -- not the same as the Notes feature on LJ, this one is visible on the Ban and Unban Accounts page, and can be shared between community admins


• preview pics for the site skins at the bottom of your Account Settings page.


• ?comments=... parameters to entries. Allows you to filter to screened comments (&comments=screened), frozen comments (&comments=frozen), and comments that are visible to everyone (&comments=visible) -- primarily useful to find comments that aren't screened when the entry is in your own journal or a community you admin.


• various fixes for accessibility including alt text for protected/private/custom security icons on site skinned pages. Major one is an option to show explicit comment hierarchy indicators on site skinned pages (including style=light), e.g., 1., 2., 2a., 2b., 3., and so on and so forth. You can turn this on in your Account Settings


• a community landing page


• number of comments to the entry are now appended to the end of outgoing RSS and Atom feeds

There's quite a few more that I can't fit in here -- check out the code tours if you want to see them all:
Code Tour, for dates 2011-6-10 to 2011-7-12, GMT. (some fixes already live)
Code tour, July 13 to August 2, 2011
Code Tour, August 3-10, 2011
Code tour, 11 August to 24 August.


And one more surprise for tomorrow which I hope you all enjoy!

Code push planned within this window:
August 25 Thursday 19:00-21:00 USA West Coast
August 25 Thursday 22:00-00:00 USA East Coast
August 26 Friday 02:00-04:00 UTC

Complete list of timezones (and thank you so much to the person who recommended this site in the comments to the last dw_maintenance entry!)