dw_maintenance | code update

Hi! I'm not sure if this is a bug or something intentional on your part (which sounds sinister but I don't mean it that way. It's my Monday and I've yet to have a full pot of coffee) but when I try to add more than one account to the crossposting feature of Dreamwidth.org I'm unable to add and it just keeps repeating the page. It makes sense that you only allow one, or if you allow more it's a paid feature and if that's the case you may want to post that somewhere so those of us that have more than two journals can know. :D

Thanks!

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Nope, no error message nor does it say I can only have one.

Hmm, it doesn't give you an error message? Odd.

Well, they are limited to one crosspost account for Free Users. The page should tell you how many you can have, and if not, that's definitely a bug! Thanks for pointing it out.

(Sigh, let me log in with the RIGHT account...)

I'm getting the same thing, it just acts like it's crossposting and then...doesn't. No error message or anything, and because it crossposted successfully to one account, I didn't realize that that was the problem.

Thanks so much for letting us unpaid users add an S2 style! My eyes were starting to bleed.

Having said that, the style that compiles cleanly on LJ had a few hiccups over here. While I was working on fixing them, I clicked the "Documentation" link on the style edit page:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/doc/s2

It takes me to an empty directory listing. I suspect that's not what you intended. I did eventually fix the style bugs with a bit of tweaking and one outright paste-in-the-HTML workaround, so I'm happy with that!

We're redoing the docs from scratch, because the ones on LJ are just awful. Right now, having no docs at all is worse than having bad documentation, but several people are working on creating some actually useful documentation for the S2 system.

It wasn't the "no docs at all" part; it was the "lack of 404/placeholder" part. I think letting people visit your directories is a security risk.

Hiding directory contents implies you're betting on security through obscurity, which is not security at all.

I'm totally agreed with you that we should put up index/empty pages so directory contents aren't listed, but that's mostly to prevent confusion when someone lands there, not for any security reasons.

One other thing, that is not a bug, just more of an FYI type of thing. On the mobile view (btw totally awesome that I don't have to have a seperate group for the mobile view) it still says LiveJournal on the reading circle page. Just thought you'd like to know.

That was fixed with this codepush.

Yay! That was beginning to bug me!

Also, are there any plans for à la carte purchases? I'd love to purchase more userpics but couldn't care less about the rest of the paid account perks.

http://dw-biz.dreamwidth.org/332.html#cutid2

Scroll down to Why can't I design my own paid account or pay for features a-la-carte?.

Short answer: no, no plans. It makes no business sense to do that, and if we did, it would cost the same as a paid account anyway. You can read the above linked post for more of the discussion about it.

Sorry, didn't mean to be one of those quote-me-the-FAQ types! I appreciate the quick, helpful answer.

Don't worry about it! Better to ask a question and get an answer than never ask and wonder forever.

Besides, kinda makes me feel useful to answer questions. :)

but the answer they have previously given to this question is:

(a) Not any time soon, maybe never.
(b) If they do, it's likely to be a paid user add-on, as opposed to just a la carte userpics.
(c) If they implemented a la carte userpics (without a paid account), they would wind up charging you about 90% of the paid account cost anyway, because userpics are the most expensive thing on the website and the sort of person who wants to buy just userpics uses them in an even more expensive way than the average of all people who buy paid accounts.

Entirely reasonable. Thanks!

You're welcome. I wouldn't have said anything if I had realized Mark had linked you to the FAQ, but what I said basically summarized the FAQ.

Just curious: How do you use userpics in a 'more expensive way' than average?

The more different icons a person uses (by which I mean, uses some way on the site that causes the icon to be displayed), the more expensive it is to serve icons.

Many people with a paid account don't upload all of the icons they are alloted, and rarely use most of the ones they have uploaded. (Sometimes this is because their icon needs are fulfilled at 15, so they buy the paid account to get the extra icons, but they don't need all of the icons a paid account provides) and sometimes it's because they're actually interested in some other paid account feature (the last time I renewed on LJ, it was because I couldn't deal with not being able to expand comments or edit my own comments.)

In any case, a person who is paying for just the icons is going to (a) never be the sort of person who bought a paid account for something other than icons and (b) more likely to feel like they need to max out their icon slot, so as to feel they're getting their money's worth, especially if the a la carte icons were priced where they'd have to be realistically, as just about the same $ as a paid account.

I would also suspect that roleplayers are one of the big userpic buyers on LJ (I certainly was when I roleplayed) and they use a lot of userpics. A lot.

Early yesterday morning I signed up for two 2-month paid accounts, one for my current account and one for a new one, but it hasn't been confirmed yet. I know you were having some issues with PayPal; is my request in a queue, waiting to be confirmed, or did it not go through? Obviously I don't want to re-submit, only to end up with multiple charges on my credit card. ;-) Thanks!

Please file a support request in the Account Payments category so we can investigate and get you an answer! :)

Done. Thanks!

Woo, the nc= trick works again! Thanks!

I don't know what's up with this setting, though.

That's a relic of when we branched from LJ's code -- they introduced the "search by email address" after we branched, but the setting was implemented before we branched. When we go through and finish cleaning up all the settings that are only accessible through that page, we'll yank that one.

When we go through and finish cleaning up all the settings that are only accessible through that page

*swoon*

The "LJ new comments" Greasemonkey script is, if possible, even more awesome than nc=, and it's been updated to work with DW as well as LJ.

Oh that sounds fabulous!!! *goes*

Oh thank you!

Yay! I relied on that like crazy, to the point of hardcoding it into my S2 style. *takes out, gratefully*

Hi, I'm having some trouble with the javascript hovers when you move over icons (communities and users)

The background of the javascript layer is not loading, and so the text is transparent and on top of other things.

This happens on every page within DW, including friends home pages, default themes, and the like.

Using: Firefox 3.0.10 / Mac OSX 10.5.6

Trouble since: Today (am new, so... don't know if it was prior to this)

I've also been having this issue and was thinking of poking at my style to see whether there's a way to fix it, but it doesn't seem to be style-specific.

I'm getting it too, and I haven't changed anything since I signed up last week, so I think it's related to the code push.

I'm also having this problem.

Yep, Firefox 3.5b4 here on Windows. It was fine previously.

Same problem. Firefly 3.0.10/Windows XP.

Same here. Firefox and Safari on Mac OSX 10.5.6.

Thanks -- there's been a bug logged for this!

I am using epiphany 2.22.2 on ubuntu 8.04, but I didn't have any problems with this earlier in the evening before the code push on the same browser, and this version of epiphany is using the 1.9 gecko engine, so it's much like mozilla.

Thank you very much for updating the cross post dilemma I had with my LJ.
So far I haven't encountered anything yet.

Whee, my profile n ow shows my default userpic and not the first one I uploaded :)

Is there a handy dandy list somewhere of the fixes that were applied? I had a quick look on the wiki, but didn't see anything, unless I am missing it...

You're probably looking for something like

changelog.

thats exactly what I am looking for! thankyou. :D

There's also the code status page!

When I go to the subscribe or grant access page, there are two "add [name]" and "cancel" buttons, one pair above the tickybox to give them an alternate color on your reading page, and one pair below it. Not sure if this is a bug, but it wasn't like this yesterday.

me too.

This was a deliberate change with this code push. The buttons appear above and below the list of custom filters, mostly for people who have a lot of filters but may not want to add the person to any, so they can just click the top "Add" button rather than scrolling all the way down.

i'm using tropo red, and right around the time of the code push (i.e., i can't say for sure if that's what caused it), i noticed a light gray line appearing beneath the text of posts. i uploaded a screenshot here.

Can I ask what browser and operating system you're using? It might help work out what's going wrong.

i'm sorry. i'm using the latest version of firefox and windows xp.

I see the same with Firefox 3.0.10 on Windows Vista Home Premium.

Same with Firefox 3.0.7 and Mac OS X 10.5.6.

Tropo Purple, Opera 9.x, Windows XP.

Thanks for fixing it so I could import comments! I know have both my LJ and IJ here on DW in their entirety. It's a great feeling :)

Is there a possibility to change/chose how the tags are displayed? Before the update, my tag list showed how many times a tag was used (which was very useful for me) and now it's just a plain list with no numbers shown at all.

Seconding this. I also liked how the tags sorted into subcategories if you used colons in your tagging system. It might not be feasible to keep it that way but it was a nice feature for those of us who are, er, organizationally obsessed.

I also liked how the tags sorted into subcategories if you used colons in your tagging system.

YES, that! Thanks for writing this...I didn't know how to explain this. That's the point where I really get to the limitations in my English.

Possible answer.

Thanks for the tip, tried it out but it didn't work. Seems like it only concerns the display of tags in the modules and not on the tags page.

Oh I didn't think you meant the tags page. The option is there, they've added it to the other layouts but I think they've forgotten to include it to Transmogrified.

If you're comfortable with editing layers, go to your Layers page, find the Transmogrified layer called 'Auto-generated Customizations' and add this line:

set tags_page_type = "multi";

Perfect! Thank you very much! I don't care at all for tags in the modules, always disable the display, so that was exactly the solution I needed.

You're welcome!

It is still available. In Customize Journal Style/Modules, make sure 'Type of tags display' is set to multilevel instead of list. The number of uses is back when you display tags this way too.

Edit: if you meant the tags page: link.

Edited 2009-05-10 15:06 (UTC)

Oh, yay! I was wondering where this great option went. I'm using an imported layout and the code insert worked just fine.

Many thanks!

Page summary fixed, hurrah!

I'm also having the problem with the backgroundless popups (Firefox 2.0.0.8, Windows XP).

I searched for "visited links", and found bug 1150, which refers to my support request; I know it's not just me that has that problem, I saw comments about it ... somewhere. I've tried using the "Custom CSS" and couldn't get it to work. Is there a how-to anywhere?

Will it always be necessary to look at changelog to find out whether a particular problem has been addrssed? A lot of it is a bit too technical for me.

I searched for "visited links", and found bug 1150

Oh, interesting! I wish the site schemes themselves also recognised visited links; pages with many links are a pain to navigate without. :(

Yes, I asked for this over in suggestions: http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/293.html?thread=81445

There's a list of known issues on the DW Wiki... if you find your problem on that list, you can check it occasionally to see if it has gone away.

But it's not on that list, unless it's been updated since yesterday. I wish it was; maybe then it would have a better priority than P5. I really like Transmogrified otherwise, and spent some time getting colours I like, but it looks as if I'd have to change to Zesty White just in order to see where I've been.

Not sure if this new or has been there for a while but I just tried embedding a video from Photobucket and only after I took the long way, posted it to LJ and copied the code it would show up in the entry. The 'not showing up before' also managed to cut off the rest of the entry.

But that's not all. When I went back to change a minor detail (like, correct a typo or change my userpic) it would do that again (cutting off everything starting with the videos). When I went back to check if I accidentally deleted something from the embed-tag I realized that the part that was cut off in the entry was cut off in the code of my entry, too.

I'm just glad I had the whole thing crossposted to LJ manually beforehand so I could copy the complete code. That brought back my complete entry but didn't stop it from being all messed up again after I had to edit it again (forgot to correct that type after all).

Just curious, did the code push fix the expand comment function in the layouts ported from LJ?

Could you be more specific about what's not working?

The "expand" link does not really expand the comment, it just opens up to new page. But it's not a big deal. I just wanted to know if it works on the layouts ported to DW from LJ such as Flexible Squares or Smooth Sailing. It works for Transmorgified, though.

If you copied Smooth Sailing directly from LJ, it uses a function called expand_link() to print the "Expand" link. For some reason "untrusted" (i.e., non-system layers) can't call this function directly-- they have to use print_expand_link() instead. That's true both here and on LJ.

Ah, thanks for the info!

All of the keyword, comment, and description information has disappeared for exactly one of my icons. It appears as blank space when I'm looking at the icon page, whether I'm logged in or not, and when I go to edit, it has replaced that information with just a pic number. Finally, it does not appear on my drop down menu. The other 199 icons are fine.

I will leave it uncorrected for the moment. It's the icon that reads "Buffy Summers does not approve," and it's grouped with the other icons of Buffy, just below the Firefly icons.

I know that the code wrangling the icons over on LJ is glitchy as well, so perhaps this will help track that issue down? Unlike the recurring LJ bug, it hasn't replaced the icon with some other random image. She's the right icon in the right place, the info is just wiped.

I've been wondering why HTML doesnt work in the 'sidebar' and in some entries? Is this going to be fixed or.... ?

What does this mean?

Like, if you would to go into my journal, right? I have a top sidebar above my entries. Anyways, See how it displays the HTML tag instead of the actual picture? Why is that? D:

Looks like the HTML is being escaped instead of interpreted. Since I can't see your layout layer I don't know exactly what's happening, but as I explained to someone else up-thread, some things don't work when layouts are ported from LJ.

Does dreamwidth not do mail forwarding like LJ does with paid accounts? I thought it did, but I've just tried contacting someone with a seed account and got bounced back. Then I tried contacting myself and got bounced back.

Would my dreamwidth mail forwarder address NOT BE willow @ dreamwidth . org ?

We do -- or rather, we are supposed to. I use my username @dreamwidth.org all the time, it's my primary mail!

However, if you got your paid account at the very beginning, there's a chance it's not setup right. You can fix it by going to the console:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/admin/console/

And type:

set no_mail_alias 0

That will force it to be turned on for your account. And that reminds me I should go through and write a script to make sure it's on for all paid accounts...

Ok, I did what you said.

But now I'm not even getting a bounce-back. I'm getting nothing at all. The mail is out there somewhere. I'm getting comments in a pretty timely manner based on my inbox and the time stamp of the comment in journals.

But the mail ... *makes fluttery mysterio hands*

Try an explict toggle:

set no_mail_alias 1

Save, then:

set no_mail_alias 0

Save how?

"Save" just means "click the button to run the command."

And anyway, that's not the problem here. The problem is you emailed yourself, and you use Gmail. Gmail has one of those helpful features where it eats email you send yourself -- so you only have one copy, the one you sent (not the one you received).

Confused yet?

Have someone else email you. Heck, I'll go email you right now.

Sorry, that's at the console: http://www.dreamwidth.org/admin/console

After you type each command, hit the "execute" button.

Ooh, thanks for that! Means I can have the *@dreamwidth.org e-mail showing on my profile now.

Is there a way to make it send e-mails to that address in plain text? I have comments coming in that way (rather than HTML) but an e-mail to myself @DW came as HTML.

It's a forwarding address, it sends you exactly what it gets. If you send it HTML mail, it will send you HTML mail. There's no ability to change that.

Hm, OK, thanks. I just wasn't expecting to get an HTML version... *g*

Oh boy. This is complicated, and probably only bothers me, but...

The other day I noticed that if I'm on my reading page and I want to click through to an entry page, the "# comments" link (what I usually use to get to an entry page, here or on LJ) takes me down to the actual comments, meaning I have to scroll up to read the post. From my reading page I can click on the title of the user's entry, and that'll take me to the entry page, but I have my preferences set to show me entry pages in style=mine, and the entry title link doesn't automatically append that. I can click on "leave a comment" and that'll take me to the entry page in my style, but the comments won't be loaded.

Basically, what I want is, from my reading page, a way to load entry pages in my style. For example, I'd want to end up here: http://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/7497.html?style=mine

I don't see anyway to do that, currently. UNLESS the post doesn't yet have any comments, then it has a "link" link that does look exactly like this: http://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/7497.html?style=mine

But that link goes away as soon as there are comments.

Just a layout thing. The subtitle names on my pages have default periods on them, which looks funny since mine has a question mark. It reads: "Where am I going?." The Reading page says "And what am I doing in this handbasket?." They are not in the editing page; they only show up in the headers.

With regard to uploading pics to use within blog entries, while I can link to pics on the web successfully, I have no luck uploading pics to entries from my PC (I use Firefox). I'm using the rich text format, and within Insert/Edit Image the Upload feature simply doesn't work. My little foxy just runs and runs forever, poor critter, getting no where! I suspect a BUG ran off with the feature...

Not a bug, but I'm wondering if there are plans to have the icon key words visible when one hovers the mouse over the icon? (You know, like on LJ, ha ha.) Or does this vary by styles, because it seems I'm not getting the text in any style.

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