Code push planned

[fu]

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!)

Comments

[kyrielle]

1. New themes are SO SHINY.

2. Yes, some form of division would be helpful. I find it "weird" to find themes before layouts and without being able to look by layout, too. Or am I on the wrong page? It looked like the right page....

Either way, alphabetical is...I'm overwhelmed and sticking with my theme, which is okay but I don't love, because I just can't take it in. And yet I really dislike almost anything that's not a white background, or very pale, and there aren't that many, but...argh. :|

Still, yay for new things, and I have a theme that works, so. :)

[fu]

Sooo, have you seen the offsite style browser that foxfirefey made, yet?

[kyrielle]

Eeee! No I hadn't! Thank you for the link, and foxfirefey for the tool!

[fu]

:D

I will pass on the thanks!

[kyrielle]

And I found a style and theme I like better, but best of all that tool was *just* the type of thing I was wanting. I love Dreamwidth for so many reasons - and this sort of "here, have a shiny!" (sometimes official, sometimes semi official, sometimes other) is one of the reasons, for sure!