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Journal by paulej72
Here is a preview of upcoming changes to SoylentNews that are scheduled to go live on 6-1.
- New user selectable themes, including a Night Mode. Themes are now CSS based and use no images for effects.
- New collapsible comment with the Improved Threaded mode. (Will be set as default for all users that have Threaded or Nested set. You can change it back if you dislike it.)
- New message display that shows all messages in reverse chronological order as a full message (now without the email footer). Also set the Daily Newsletter to be off for new users.
- Removed a bunch of unneeded code that will make page loading faster.
- Static pages (FAQ and About) are now dynamic and show the proper user menu and theme.
- RSS now encoded properly.
- Preferences update to make pages work together better. (Most of the work was on the admin side so most of you will never see the bulk of the changes.) Also fixed a issue with the Homepage Prefs where the reset to default would not set everything to the defaults.
- Updates to the Submissions system. The pages look better and now you past submissions are organized better.
- Login system updated to allow passwords with unlimited lengths and user names of upto 35 characters.
- Slashboxes fixed so that they show properly when you change your Homepage settings.
- Pollbooth updates to make pages look better.
- Fixed issue with long words and page elements overflowing their parent divs by adding word-wrap: break-word; to the css.
- And a bunch of smaller fixes that you will be sure to notice.
While not everything has been fixed we are making progress. If you want to check the changes out now go to http://dev.soylentnews.org. If you signed up on SN before 4-1 your account is already on dev and you can log in if you care to.
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For recreational use only.
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Saturday May 31 2014, @02:04PM
I take it the above changes have gone in to the main server some time in the last few hours. I like the collapsible threads.
However, it seems that some previous changes have been reverted. I just got this message (which I thought was removed a couple of months ago):
Possible further evidence ... I also just got this:
I don't actually mind either of these things being reverted, but I thought you'd want to know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 31 2014, @02:58PM
The first is probably a reversion or just never got fixed, but the second was intentional.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday May 31 2014, @03:14PM
To elaborate on the parent comment: It's been there all along but because there were less than (20?) submissions in the queue, it was superseded by THAT message. Now that the submission queue is in better shape, you're seeing the "This page was created by..." message again.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Saturday May 31 2014, @02:59PM
Gah, we renamed the variable in dev, so the global setting is now on the default (aka "old") behavior. Let me get a wrench and fix it.
Still always moving
(Score: 1) by Open4D on Saturday May 31 2014, @04:17PM
P.S. I'm hoping to promote the use of ISO dates and times [cam.ac.uk] for international comms.
e.g. Change #1 to #2:
#1 If you signed up on SN before 4-1 your account is already on dev and ...
#2 If you signed up on SN before 2014-04-01 your account is already on dev and ...