Code push: Saturday, June 27th, 4pm Pacific / 11pm UTC

[mark]

Hi all,

We're planning on doing a code push this Saturday! If you're curious about what's changing, please check out the Code Tour: https://dw-dev.dreamwidth.org/222909.html

Important note: this code push includes some visual changes (continuing our efforts to modernize common workflows) and also includes some conversions of old pages to be generated in a different way with different markup. As always, we've tested the changes in most of the major browsers and use cases, but some things may break when they meet real-world usage and different technical setups. If we broke it, we'll fix it as soon as we can.

We'll post again and update dreamwidth when the process is underway.

Thanks!

Comments

[denise]

Important note: this code push includes some visual changes (continuing our efforts to modernize common workflows) and also includes some conversions of old pages to be generated in a different way with different markup. As always, we've tested the changes in most of the major browsers and use cases, but some things may break when they meet real-world usage and different technical setups. If we broke it, we'll fix it as soon as we can.

[mark]

Promoted this top level into the post itself! ty!

[eesh]

I enjoy the new comment preview page but if there's one suggestion I could give, it's to have the comment we're replying to above the text field/preview of our comment? I know having it below is more synonymous with other types of forums but on dreamwidth, especially with regards to rp communities, being able to quickly look up and view the comment we're replying to (vs scroll down,) is smoother in that order.

Thank you for perking it up either way, though!

[roadrunnertwice]

Y'know, my original reaction when I first started poking at the preview page WAS actually "This should just look like a reply page, with the parent on top." But once I started poking at it, I noticed that my own WIP was the thing I really wanted to see first, so I left the ordering the same as it was. (I guess that was also partially because I was trashing literally everything ELSE on the page, and didn't want weird new bugs to get lost in the noise of "thing changed on me, why.")

Anyway, I think we probably need to keep the WIP comment front-and-center, since it's kind of the whole raison d'être of the page. There might be ways to do that AND make the layout feel more like a comment thread or a reply page, but they'll need careful consideration. (For example: azurelunatic suggested in chat that we could load the page with the anchor portion of the URL pointing at the WIP comment, so you'd start out scrolled halfway down the page and could scroll upwards to the parent. But now that the preview looks much more like a posted comment, that might make someone's heart skip a beat, thinking they've accidentally posted for real. Would we need to add some kind of extra styling if we did that?)

So, I guess we'll mull those over, see if anything pops out as a winner.

[roadrunnertwice]

Hmm, I suppose we could truncate the replying-to content by default with a fade-out effect, and have a click-to-expand control. Like this:



Would need to handle the no-javascript case too — the two options I see are to:

• Leave it fully expanded, pushing the preview you care most about way down the page. Bleah.
• Use a different order of content — no-JS folks get today's order, with the preview on top. Also somewhat bleah, just because it's inconsistent.

[denise]

I like the idea of putting it above but behind a click-to-unroll, and I wouldn't have problems with using a different order of content -- people who have JS disabled or whose devices can't run JS are used to things behaving differently.

[bloodbathing]

Hello! I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this, but I've noticed something a little odd with the comment preview page.

It used to be that if you clicked on an individual thread (so the url looked something like this: https://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/82644.html?thread=3297492#cmt3297492) and you used the preview page while replying to it, you'd be taken back to that individual thread once your comment was posted. Now, using the preview function when commenting takes you back to the entry itself rather than the thread. (Posting a comment without using the preview function still takes you back to the individual thread, as before.)

Very minor thing, I know! It's just a bit jarring when responding to an entry with lots of threads and/or very long threads.

[roadrunnertwice]

That was unintentional! It should be fixed now. (AND, we added the "back to thread" behavior when editing a comment, using "more options," and opening a reply link in a new tab.)

[bloodbathing]

That's awesome, thank you!