DK4 is the new-generation platform powering Daily Kos; the site began using it on February 12, 2011. DK1 was the Movable Type version, used from May 26, 2002 through October 15, 2003. DK2 was the transition of Daily Kos to the Scoop platform starting on October 13, 2003. DK3 was the redesigned version of Daily Kos on Scoop released on June 24, 2005, and used until February 12, 2011. DK4 is a custom platform, rebuilt from the ground up. This tag is for the discussion of the new Daily Kos platform, whether features or bugs.
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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
 128 comments
on Tue Mar 14, 2023 at 10:47 PM PDT
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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
103 comments
on Tue Apr 11, 2023 at 11:22 AM PDT
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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
253 comments
on Thu Jun 30, 2022 at 12:35 PM PDT
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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
261 comments
on Wed Mar 30, 2022 at 01:44 PM PDT
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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
40 comments
on Thu Nov 11, 2021 at 04:45 PM PST
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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
337 comments
on Mon Nov 08, 2021 at 07:43 PM PST
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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
20 comments
on Thu Apr 27, 2017 at 08:29 PM PDT
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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
30 comments
on Wed Jan 11, 2017 at 04:18 PM PST
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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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on Sat Nov 14, 2015 at 11:06 AM PST
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If you don’t want to read another story discussing the design of DK5, read no further. Skip it if you’re tired of it. I don’t mind if you don’t want to read it.
Okay, the disclaimer is over.
by badscience
35 comments
on Wed Nov 11, 2015 at 05:57 PM PST
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Hey all! As you’ve seen (to many of your consternations), the big change happened yesterday late evening. Some quick notes:
Site speed. Things were laggy overnight and this morning. I felt i
by kos
820 comments
on Sun Nov 08, 2015 at 09:44 AM PST
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Well, not exactly past: invisible unless someone happens to hover over your name in DK5, and invisible without opening a new window on some mobile devices. So here is a compendium of some of those de
by Wee Mama
28 comments
on Sun Nov 08, 2015 at 02:22 PM PST
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One of the reasons we're moving, or so I hear, to DK5, is to make it easier for social media, and for those of us who tweet.
I, for one don't tweet... never touched the stuff.
I know... I know.. ...
by BFSkinner
54 comments
on Sat Nov 07, 2015 at 05:41 AM PST
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I hear [something new http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/06/1445517/-DK5-to-Arrive-this-Saturday] is magically going to appear tomorrow night at my blogging doorstep. Will it be a welcome ...
by JekyllnHyde
126 comments
on Fri Nov 06, 2015 at 08:28 PM PST
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Well, well, a new version of DailyKos. Isn't that nice.
I'm sure DK5 will have countless new features to amaze, expanded functionality to enthrall. And the tech team has proved quite adept at ...
by Crashing Vor
57 comments
on Fri Nov 06, 2015 at 07:04 AM PST
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I'll just leave this screen shot here. Thanks for the memories.
by earicicle
19 comments
on Sat Nov 07, 2015 at 09:57 AM PST
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DK4 is a dead end - Beta is the miracle cure.
We’re beside ourselves this week. We're publishing KosAbility both in antiquated DK4 (You R Here) and avant-guard DK5 Beta (...
by Besame
12 comments
on Thu Oct 29, 2015 at 03:14 PM PDT
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DK4 is dead...long live DK5..!! Welcome, users new and not so new! Now that DK4 is dead man walking, it makes little sense to further pick apart this carcass. We surely will help with any last ...
by Glen The Plumber
153 comments
on Sun Oct 18, 2015 at 03:31 PM PDT
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Do you want the final say to rest with this toddler and this adorable dog?
Yesterday, we released a fresh set of changes to comments in the Beta that we believe make them feature complete. That is, ...
by elfling
51 comments
on Fri Oct 16, 2015 at 12:56 PM PDT
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Have you ever written a diary about a hot-off-the-presses news event, clicked Publish now and then waited ... and waited ... and waited ... and nobody dropped by to read your piece? While waiting, ...
by Krotor
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on Wed Sep 23, 2015 at 03:12 PM PDT
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