Code push complete

[denise]

Tonight's code push is complete! Please report issues here. Again, if you try to post and get a message that you need to confirm your email address first, please see How do I confirm my email address? for instructions on how to confirm your email address and fix the problem.

Comments

[morrow]

The home page on mobile (Chrome on iPhone) looks a lil… sparse. Is this intentional?

[palominocorn]

I'm using Firefox on Android and getting something very similar after the code push.

[momijizukamori]

If you're looking for the stuff that's in the sidebar on desktop, scroll down. Everything collapses into one column now on mobile screens for readability.

[crystalmaster]

It's looking like this on my laptop too.

[denise]

I don't remember the exact window width at which two columns collapses down to one column, but it does collapse down even on desktop. If you make the window a little wider it should flow back to two columns.

[the_beasts]

just in case it helps the devs, since Denise specifically asked for issues to be reported here, we're adding a note here that some other people (who we don't personally know) have mentioned elsewhere having problems with the home page's display/layout.

in one person's case, it's causing an actual accessibility issue for that person, and in the other, it's creating a navigation problem.

links to the comments in question:

navigation issue on homepage

accessibility issue on homepage

note that we personally do not visit the dw home page, so we know nothing about this and have not experienced this issue. we're just redirecting others' reports to the place the devs requested them. we do not know the people who reported these issues and have not communicated with them.

(we hope this doesn't come across as pushy or anything, we personally have no stake in this issue and even if we did, we'd want the devs/volunteers/whoever's working on things to take their time and do things at their own pace. we just saw that there were reports in the wrong place and after checking timestamps vs time of dev responses here, thought it might help to put them in the right place, maybe.)

p.s. thankyou very very much to the devs & volunteers & everyone working so hard to keep dw going! we appreciate you all so much! <3

[denise]

It's okay, we read the comments no matter which post they're on! But thank you.

[the_beasts]

<3 <3 <3

awesome! ^_^ we thought you'd probably catch them regardless, you're always very thorough and good at finding things that end up in the wrong places, it seems like. but we weren't sure if it'd make things easier for you, if stuff was collected together. it's good to know we don't need to worry about it, thankyou for letting us know! <3

[denise]

I really appreciate it! There's a reason why, when I tell all my professional colleagues who work on different platforms some of my stories about how we have the best userbase in the entire industry, they inevitably ask "...are you hiring?" after hearing them. We are so, so lucky to have such a wonderful community of users and I love y'all.

[the_beasts]

aww, well the feeling is entirely mutual! <3 you all built this community, it's a mirror for yourselves. the ways you as a dev team handle communication, site management/development, and user interactions are what laid the blueprint for the ways users have responded.

we've been on other social media sites, and we'd never bother to spend spoons on a little thing like this over there, because the folks running things there don't treat users with the respect and kindness that you do here, don't support our & others' accessibility needs, and aren't transparent about what's going on. here on dreamwidth, we know we can trust the devs, we know you have our backs, and we know enough about what goes on and how you operate to have an inkling about what may or may not be useful (even if our guesses aren't accurate, we have guesses).

it's a scary world out there right now, and dreamwidth is about the only place on the internet where we feel genuinely like we're in safe hands and that's not going to change. we appreciate you all (devs, volunteers, everyone who contributes) so much. <3 <3 <3