A huge round of applause to paulej72 for going through the bug list and sorting out much of what was there. Furthermore, I'd also like to extend thanks to iWantToKeepAnon and TheMightyBuzzard for contributions to this release.
As always, feel free to submit your issues to our bugtracker where our crack team of flying monkeys will labor to try and make it part of future site upgrades.
Check past the break for more thoughts and comments on these changes.
There's still a quite a bit of low hanging fruit, so if you like to blowtorch old codebases, grab the source and start deleting!
Subscriber Code Enabled
We're not offering subscriptions until post-incorporation, but we wanted to start looking and smoketesting this code in preparation for that happy day. Expect to see a few users with *'s after their name that marks them as a subscriber. As a note, the subscriber +1 pseudo-mod is disabled by default, so subscriber posts do not show up higher than they otherwise would.
I'd like to get a discussion going with the community on what sort of things you'd like to see from subscribing, so look for that article, and start brainstorming on what you would be willing to pay for (like shell accounts, USENET access, or some other service we could reasonable provide?)
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Sunday June 01 2014, @04:34AM
I was a bit upset at first, too. But try to balance your uneasy gut reaction against the facts:
A) It's not a big change from old threading/nesting.
B) You can change it back very easily.
C) They have an interest in getting user exposure and testing of new features.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 1) by ekimnosnews on Monday June 02 2014, @06:11PM
B) above keeps me from caring at all. Maybe to satisfy both sides it could be configurable through your preferences:
[X] Willing to be Guinea Pig
Automatically enable all new features as soon as they become available.
(Score: 1) by WhiteSpade on Wednesday June 04 2014, @08:34AM
And /of course/ I don't have modpoints at the moment...
I think this is a great idea. I don't mind having new features automatically enabled, as long as I can turn them off if I find them to be offensive.
But I think there are quite a few people who would really appreciate the option to opt-out of new features by default.
---Alex