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dw_maintenance2020-06-27 04:02 pm
mark) wrote in dw_maintenance2020-06-27 04:02 pm
Code push happening shortly!
Hi all,
We're doing a code push as mentioned here.
As usual, a 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 will be watching this post for comments, so please let us know if you see anything that needs to be addressed and we'll take a look!
Known Issues
- The spellchecker continues to go walkabout. This is intentional, we are deprecating it and removing it. Modern browsers have spellcheck that works in multiple languages and has actually been updated since 1995, so there's no reason for Dreamwidth to continue to try to maintain one.
Fixed Issues
- FAQs had gone missing. Well, the answers. They're back now.
- Replying to comments was incorrectly routing you back to the top level view, rather than the view of the thread you were on. This is fixed.
As always, please do keep an eye on our Twitter account dreamwidth.
OpenID broken?
It looks like OpenID logins to DW got broken - cf https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/see_request?id=42199 and a fixing PR https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/2743 now merged.
Any idea when this fix will be deployed, please? [I have a few people who usually use OpenID to read/comment on my posts, and now they can't...]
Re: OpenID broken?
In the meantime, there should be a workaround: even though the main Openid login form is broken, you can still use the “More options” comment form to log in.
Your friends can click reply on any public entry, choose OpenID as their user type and check the login box, and click preview; that should log them in without posting the dummy comment, and then they can interact as normal. Hope that helps!
Re: OpenID broken?