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Code update

Just did a code push. The big thing in this push is the new icons you'll see on the site. Some tweaks and fixes to S2 layouts. And a lot of work on the payment system, which still is disabled, so you can't see that yet.

The issues with the crossposter are still outstanding, so if it's broken for you, it's still broken. We'll be working on it a lot this weekend.

Also, the issues with the importer are mostly resolved. There are only two outstanding issues -- the use of the mass privacy tool causing problems with some imports and importing from multiple accounts on one service -- but otherwise, the importer should be stable. If you've been holding off on importing your journal, I'd highly recommend you get it done before the Open Beta rush hits and the wait time becomes days!

As always, please let me know if you run into problems!

Edited: For more information on the S2 change I referred to in comments, please see this informational post in

dw_styles. Thanks!

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I suppose this explains why the posters' names disappeared off all the posts in my reading list just now. :)

I'm using a customized S1 style, I think. (I, er, followed the copy-and-paste instructions on a tutorial without understanding it entirely.)

Someone else was reporting this on IRC. It's because the style you're using depends on the reading page being called "friends" still, and we just changed that. It's pretty easy to fix, but you have to go into the code for your layout and change "friends" to "read".

If you want more detailed instructions, let me know, and I'll poke someone to come help. :)

Ah, having this same issue. Will try and see if I can fix it by doing what you suggest.

I tried fixing it, but I just attempted a simple find-and-replace (of all instances of "friends" with "read") and .... it didn't work. It registered errors when it compiled and, um, I have no idea what they mean. ^_^

I think I'll just switch to another layout for now till the regular Core 2 stuff comes in or until

mark has time to poke at the process and put it in layman's terms. ^_^

Ah, thank you, I was just about to do the same thing! Will have to go back to the default styles for now.

Ditto -- find and replace gave me error messages.

ETA: okay, some fumbling around indicates that you can't just find-and-replace "friends" to "read", or it borks things; it's $p.view == "friends" (and $p.view != "friends") that needs to change to $p.view == "read", etc..

ETA2: http://dw-styles.dreamwidth.org/5062.html

So okay, I could have saved myself the flailing around if I'd just waited five minutes, but I'm smug that I managed to find the right answer ~~by means of a cunning strategy of randomly changing shit to see what happens~~.

Edited 2009-04-24 21:24 (UTC)

I applaud your cunning strategy, though, and not just because it's the same one I employ. *g*

This is the first time I've ventured into actually trying to edit the code myself! I feel very brave *g*.

First, I always recommend copying your existing layout to a text document and saving it, in case something goes horribly wrong. *g*

After the search and replace, once you get errors in the compiling process, you can scroll down to the bottom of the list of errors (in the lower frame) and find out which line it didn't like. The bad line of code will be in italics. Then you can search for that text in the upper frame, manually replace read with friends for that instance, and compile it again.

Rinse and repeat as many times as is necessary, until you get a clean compile.

I just did it for a friend's journal (I keep her styles up-to-date) and it took a few minutes but wasn't too bad in Mixit.

Yeah, I'm kind of a n00b for anything more complicated, style-wise, than simple CSS, but I do know to back my stuff up before I monkey with it. ^_^ Despite my not knowing my way around the layouts very well, I do habitually build/take apart computers and keep excellent backup. I just didn't see a reason to restore without first figuring out the fix for certain, rather than proceeding to re-try the thing-that-made-sense-to-me if it didn't, in fact, make sense. ^_^

I didn't mean for that to sound like a dig or anything. O.O I was just trying to go through steps in order, and that's the one thing I always forget when I'm tinkering with my layout, and then end up kicking myself about later.

Everything I know about layouts (which isn't a lot, honestly), I've learned by poking at existing code, changing things and watching how it breaks, and trying to brute-force it into doing what I want; I'm sorry if I came across sounding like I thought I was some kind of layout guru. *g*

I'm sorry. Long day. I just read things wrong and snarked when there was no reason.

Urgh. My normal rule is "step away from the computer till you've had a nap or some coffee."

Let's start over, 'kay? ^_^

Let's start over, 'kay? ^_^

Sure, we're cool. *g* (For the record, I wasn't upset by your comment, just concerned that I'd offended.)

Detailed instructions for the wary [like me] would be lovely, thank you.

I'd appreciate detailed instructions as well.

Instructions, we can haz:

http://dw-styles.dreamwidth.org/5062.html

Thanks for the 'heads-up' *grin*

Thank you!

wow. I can read your mind. (I finally got around to importing just a couple of seconds ago). XD

Also, the icons = pretteh!

The new site icons made me squee out loud. So excited!

I don't know if the import still does this, but I got every tag I ever used, because apparently when you change the name, LJ does it dynamically? Anyway, I wish it were not so but I understand why you'd have to. Warning people would be good.

PS may I have some invite codes please?

Edited 2009-04-24 20:37 (UTC)

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Uh, no. People who select "other" are not green aliens. They're people.

I have no real desire to have my icon hardcoded to my gender. I'd much rather specify "other" to get a gender-neutral icon, and then I definitely don't want to be an alien.

The new site icons are lovely. :)

Importer for merging an IJ account & an LJ account still loses comments from IJ:
I tried to use the importer for getting the comments on my IJ account transferred to here as well (transferred my LJ account a couple of days ago). Sadly, it didn't work.
The importer duplicated what I cross-posted between IJ and DW, but the comments on IJ posts (duplicated or not) are not showing up. I opened specifically posts I knew had comments on IJ to see if the comments were "hidden" as has been mentioned at an earlier update, but I could find nothing.
I'm sorry, if I misunderstood importing from two different services to be resolved. Is it still in planning?

... does this explain why communities on my reading page don't have anything to say they're communities anymore? It stopped saying "posted by [user] in [comm]", now they look just like regular journals.

I'm using the standard white theme, haven't made any adjustments to it. (Though i did drop in the snippet of code that makes comment pages show in the site scheme.)

This should be fixed now, sorry!

Still looks broken, even after clearing my cache just in case. :/ Is there some lag time, should I give it a few more minutes to percolate?

Also I didn't get this comment in my inbox. Hmm.

(I do LOVE the new icons, by the way!)

Okay, mysteriously, if someone posts in a comm, their username shows up on my reading page (but not the comm name). If they post in their own journal, I don't get a username at all.

Same here! I wondered why only

mark's name was showing, and then I realized this was in a comm.

We can haz quick fix:

http://dw-styles.dreamwidth.org/5062.html

This issue also exists in Zesty White, which looks like it's a Core 2 style.

I'm not sure whether the solution for ported styles works or not (I gave up trying and swapped to transmogrified instead!)

Yeah, I'm having the same problem, it's very confusing. The only place I can see something is a community now is the page summary. Though I'm using an imported layout. But I looked at other people's reading lists in layouts native ot the site and community names were missing there too. So it seems a wider effect.

The icons are pretty though.

Yeah, I get that, too. Though only in Zesty, as it seems. In Negatives and Transmogrified the comms are displayed.

But yay, the shiny new icons are cool!

Any way of importing communities yet?

miss_s_b has been using

theyorkshergob as her public journal for ages, but wants to put everything back in one place on DW, it'd be nice to either import the comm here as a comm or import the comm into her journal.

Also, what is up with the CSS on usertags in comments? That looks weird.

Oh, ability to crosspost to comms also useful.

Importing communities is very, very difficult, because there's no way to allow the original poster to still retain control of the information (as OpenID users can't post to communities or manage community entries).

We do have plans to make it so that single-poster communities can be imported in the future, once we have the "claim your OpenID account" set up so that we can verify that the DW user importing the community is also the LJ/IJ/whateverJ user who posted all the entries, but that's an enhancement for down the road.

That makes sense on many levels. I guess it'll be possible to cheat that with things like Wordpress imports when that goes live, import a comm to WP then export here, but that'll lose poster details across the board.

Danke, it's a one-person-only comm, so that should go OK.

just noticed the new icons. Love them!

imported my journal from LJ, but I've been holding off on importing anything but my icons from IJ - all I would want are the few comments on that journal to entries that were the same on LJ. Just afraid that the entry numbers might be different, though...

Just commenting to say I really like the community icon. :D

I love the new site icons-- I'd been a bit disappointed that they looked like LJ's icons, which I'm not overly fond of, but these are gorgeous. ♥

What are you seeing as the DW icons? For regular users, I'm seeing what looks like a tiny silver snowman. Are you seeing the same, or am I just in need of new glasses? *g*

Yes, that's the new icons that were in the codepush just now.

Thanks! (it took me a week to realize that LJ's icon was a little person, so...oh wait! The little silver snowmen are little people too! *is slow* *g*)

Better than me. I thought they were thumbtacks! :/

I'm seeing the user icon as that, and I'm seeing the community icon, maintainer icon, and all the LJ buttons like "edit, track, delete" as very streamlined, personalized-to-DW graphics that I like a lot better than the LJ equivalents. The community icon in particular is what I was thinking of. :D

*nods*

Now I see everything!

*is happy*

EEE CODE PUSH!

I've been holding off on importing because of the issue with the the mass privacy tool. Is that worth waiting for, or is it better to just import now?

No, unfortunately if you've used the mass privacy tool, your import will still fail. This is a bug that we're working on. (It has to do with how the mass privacy tool affects the timestamp of the entries, which then affects how things get provided in the data feed.)

...this is interesting, because I imported just fine a couple weeks ago, despite having mass-privatized the LJ account over a year ago.

*pokes archive* Yeah, it all came over. Hunh. I suppose it's just as well I didn't know I should have worried about it.

Yeah, it only applies if you mass-privatized more than 500 entries.

Ah. Makes sense, then; I've never left that much stuff on their servers.

(I keep thinking your little snowman is being eaten by the big red snake. Or maybe falling into a time vortex. One or the other.)

I like it! The Dreamwidth-D is hugging my userhead icon! It's like being wrapped up in a snuggly shawl.

I don't dislike it! I just think, oh look, hole in the space-time continuum! Or...snake! (I like snakes. I have a snake.)

Okay, okay, so your shawl metaphor is probably a lot more benevolent. This is why I am not in marketing.

Oooh ooh a snake! What kind? I used to own a green garter of some sort, but he escaped. My parents were kinda upset.

We have a California king snake; she ran away (well, the kids let her out) last year, but she came back. Which was kind of a pleasant surprise (though it was winter time, and the house is a LOT warmer than the outside). There she was, in the stairwell, helloooo snake!

She was a gift from a herpetologist I used to work with -- she was a byblow from a hybridization experiment, so she's recessive for a lot of interesting things but predominantly looks almost exactly like this bog-standard king snake here.

Her name is Spot.

So cute! Thank you for sharing.

Have you been to the Vivarium? If you like herps, it is worth the field trip.

I would normally think this is a stylesheet issue, but I'm seeing the issue across the board: S1 pages, transmogrified pages, and site scheme pages.

The userhead icons are not aligned with the bottom of the text, which I'm pretty sure they were before. The change struck me immediately when we flipped icons. I can't for the life of me figure out what they're aligned with actually. In the navbar they seem to have the top of the icon aligned with the vertical middle of the line, and in other parts of the text it seems if perhaps the top is aligned with the top of the line.

It looks to me like they're centrally aligned with the line of text, which I (personally!) think is quite nice. Not sure if that is the case, though.

I zoomed my text as big as it would go, and it looks like the underscore in the link is dead centre on the icon.

Nope, scratch that, at very high zoom it is centred. It moves as the text size changes. Hmmm.

Edited 2009-04-24 21:15 (UTC)

I filed a bug report. Someone with madder CSS skills than mine will have to figure it out.

*facepalm* replied from e-mail, did not realize you were commenting on said bugreport.

I think that the new icons are fabulous.

I suspect you're going to get obligatory "but they're so white!", but ignore: they are fab!

Just noticed the new icons, and I love them! Great work, guys!

I dig the new icons! They're nifty.

You guys rock! Thank you for all the hard work. :)

FYI: The names of posters did not drop off of my reading list until I got to this post on my reading list.

All posts above this post include the names of posters with the new icons. All posts below this post on my reading list have no names and no icons.

I don't know if its some kind of bug or what.

Note: It was a part of the bug that was fixed via afuna. I just thought it was odd that it only happened a part of the time. :D

Edited 2009-04-24 21:53 (UTC)

The new icons are cute - I especially like the 'post' icon - and the ones by the links at the bottom of a post are nicely unobtrusive.

In regards to coding, can I ask how things stand on embedded vids?

+1 icons = awesome. Thank you!

You picked my preferred community icon! I NEVER HAVE TO OVERRIDE AGAIN! ♥

I hadn't thought about the likely rush on journal imports after April 30. Okay: after reading this post, I girded my loins and clicked all the little ticky-boxes and told the import to begin!

(And -- this is so cool! -- seven years of livejournal posts seem to have ported themselves over, and I did some clicking around at random and it looks like the ones which were filtered are now locked, which is great -- I'll recreate the filters at some point. Still! eee! all my posts! Now I am just waiting on comments... \o/)

Well, I'm glad I looked here and saw mention of the new icons before I started what I expect will be Add DW Support To LJlogin Weekend. :-)

Also, oh good, for some reason, it looks to me like it might be larger than the LJ icons, but it's actually not. I was a bit concerned.

I'm glad to learn you're here and planning to bring LJlogin to DW; I was vaguely thinking of asking you about this via LJ one of these days. Yay LJlogin!

I'm still unable to import a few of my icons. I've continued to try periodically as you've reported fixes, but my default and a handful of others just won't come over.

My support request thread is here.

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