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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2009-04-24 01:26 pm

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 [site community profile] dw_styles. Thanks!
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[personal profile] montanaharper 2009-04-24 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] quiara 2009-04-24 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
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. ^_^
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[personal profile] montanaharper 2009-04-25 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
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*
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[personal profile] quiara 2009-04-25 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
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? ^_^
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[personal profile] montanaharper 2009-04-25 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
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.)