Slightly later than planned (due mostly to the holiday season and people's lives away from SN being hectic) the next bunch of updates for the site is ready to go. It's a bumper crop!
We have some further changes to the moderation system. As before, this is certainly not the end of changes in this area, rather another step along the road of improvement. We will be watching how the changes affect moderation usage with a view to further improvements.
There's also a number of more general improvements and bug fixes.
All being well these changes should go live around 03:00 26th January UTC. So no need for alarm if there's some minor site disruption at that point. Changes went live at approximately 22:00 31st January UTC.
As always, feedback will be welcome once this deployed.
A major thanks to TheMightyBuzzard for the bulk of the work, paulej72 for sanity checking and martyb for testing/QA.
More details after the break....
Admin Note: it looks like we found a late breaking bug that is a blocker for this update. Spam mods are not showing up to the admins with the proper unmodding options. We will update when we find the issue. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next day or so.
General Changes
An honourable mention...
New functionality that didn't quite make it into the final cut for this update, but is available for testing on our dev environment.
As always, feedback will be welcome once this deployed.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @09:54PM
Is it nice how the "GODS" answer questions?
Talk about an open debate. Cram the new beta down on us, than play lip service on meaningful discussion of the changes.
Thank the GODS for BETA!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 25 2015, @10:01PM
We've done absolutely nothing about you trolling all over the place though. Guess we love us some trolls up here on Olympus, eh?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.