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

[quipsandthwips]

Thanks for the updates! The profile pages for accounts seem to have been made a bit topsy turvey by the push, unfortunately...! I tried to fiddle with it but it just seems to mash everything together. Just wanted to give the heads up, hope that's something that can be adjusted to function a bit more smoothly.

[mark]

Can you say more/link to a profile and let us know what it's doing and what you expected it to do?

[lostapprentice]

At least for me, it looks like linebreaks break html, so where I could center or change font etc. for my entire profile page before by putting the tags at the top, those tags only work for that first line and act as if I've closed them by the next line.

[quipsandthwips]

Sure thing!

https://quipsandthwips.dreamwidth.org/profile

These used to be two gifs on each line, to form a 2x6 column, if that makes sense?

Now it's all pushed together like I put them all on one line. (and trying to edit it back does nothing)

[quipsandthwips]

Updating to say I see the profile code I linked is fixed! Thanks so much if that was you tinkering around in there!