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For a while now, we’ve been working at modernizing the code that runs our story pages, in an effort to pay down what is cheerfully known as “technical debt” — not so much because we’ve ...
by elfling
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Friends, our apologies for all the site instability. There seems to be a widespread issue at AWS that has affected us, and has caused some lingering problems. Commenting seems to be okay, but there are some issues around story editing of a particular...
by elfling
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The news just keeps coming, and there’s barely a moment to breathe sometimes. Except for tech news, which has been oddly quiet. Maybe we couldn’t get a word in edgewise, maybe we have been heads-down on some other things ahead, but rest assured we at...
by elfling
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We’ve been working on several small changes in the styling on comments lately. Most of these are subtle cleanups to better handle the displays on narrower screens, for those of you who have such ...
by elfling
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Please eyeball your old REPLIES page. As of this posting, mine stops at 17 items — one single page— despite extensive comment&reply activity at multiple diaries the past two days (the timespan that used to be encompassed) including, of course,...
by mettle fatigue
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As I was using the old replies format, which looked like the illustration below — very efficient use of area and no glaring white-space — it changed, right before my eyes, to THAT ONE ABOVE. Which currently displays only about 9 replies total....
by mettle fatigue
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Groups posting within the past 6 or 8 months are bolded and underscored; inactive groups are in pale print and italicized. Part 1. Current General Groups (for presidential campaigns). Part 2. Candidate groups. 🔶 indicates listed also in Where...
by mettle fatigue
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Sometime in the next hour or so we plan to take the site down for 5-10 minutes to deploy some changes to our spam-fighting despaminate robots.
Meanwhile watch out for errant emoji.
“You know what it means when something chases you very...
by elfling
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If you’ve been wishing you could embed content from Facebook, they’ve made some changes to make their content more shareable back out of Facebook, and you can now embed from there if you wish.
In the upper right corner of public posts, if you click...
by elfling
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DK4 allowed me to save drafts indefinitely, for as long as I want. Why is DK5 insisting that a draft can be kept only for 364 days, and making me waste half a minute specifying the date ? I use draf
by ej heinemann
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