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

[chardismastic]

Question - is the "random icon" button meant to be nixed from anything other than the "more options" screen?

[denise]

It's actually also in the icon picker dropdown -- second option down the list, just under "Default". When you pick it, the button does come up for you to roll again if you want a new pick.

(The changes we're making to the comment form are to improve the mobile experience -- we're trying to get the comment form down to one screen both horizontally and vertically, and that involves a lot of space-juggling. The random button isn't incredibly frequently used, but it is something the people who use really love, so we didn't want to lose it completely -- but we needed to steal its space!)

[chardismastic]

OH excellent, thanks for that. Glad to know it's not fully gone.