Code push - tomorrow (April 26th, 2020) at ~1PM Pacific / 2000 UTC

[mark]

This is a codepush announcement.

Tomorrow around 1PM Pacific / 2000 UTC, we will be updating Dreamwidth to the latest committed code. The short summary of the main changes:

• We continue to iterate on the Quick Reply form, improving its usability/consistency across all platforms and cleaning up the hideously bad code that used to live under it. This particular update includes the feedback from the last update, so many of your thoughts/suggestions have been incorporated!

• A number of improvements in how we render things for mobile devices. Not all of these will be immediately live, but stay tuned to dw_beta if you'd like to turn them on and give us feedback.

• Improvements to Markdown rendering (in particular, the code that turns \@mark into mark should do it more correctly/in fewer places).

• Finally, major changes to how we store passwords in our database (we won't anymore). This will break Semagic and other clients, but there is a workaround: Please see the workaround at the bottom of this post.

For more details, see the relevant posts in dw_dev:

• Code Tour 2020-04-20
• Code Tour 2019-12-14
• Deep dive on authentication changes

We'll update this community and our dreamwidth as we push code out, as per usual. See you then!

Comments

[darjeeling]

Do you know if the new password protocols will affect LJLogin/LJJuggler? (Which, despite their names, are the login switching extensions most of us use for switching between accounts on DW.)

+1

[mycenae]

Not the biggest deal in the world, but that is a looming inconvenience I'm also worried about.

+2

[slurm]

Same tbh.

[momijizukamori]

It will - you'll either have to update your account configurations with an API key in place of a password, as explained, or wait for the LJ Juggler dev to accept the pull request I made with a fix or publish a new version.

(users of LJLogin will have to switch to API key, as to my knowledge development has been dead for close to ten years now)

[frau_kali]

One of the LJ Juggler devs here (kind of, I wrote the dark theme and import/export in the most recent version), we're working on it.

[momijizukamori]

The power of open source! /jazz-hands

[frau_kali]

Yesh! Btw we're talking about your pull request and changes we have to make now, going to work on it in an hour or so.

[darjeeling]

Thank you so much to both of you for working on this! It's really appreciated!

[mudousetsuna]

OMG I just want to express how much I appreciate this plugin, so THANK YOU!

[mycenae]

That sounds more complicated than it's worth. Manual logins for me, I suppose.

[biichan]

O same.