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posted by on Thursday December 21 2017, @04:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the sic-semper-insectus dept.

Seems we've hit one of those rare days where circumstances have conspired to keep all the eds busy enough that the story queue ran dry, so I figured I'd go ahead and tell you lot about the upcoming December site update just so they have a little less time to fill now that a couple of them have appeared and started refilling the queue.

It's mostly just a minor bug-fix update, stuff I could get coded quickly and didn't require extensive testing that martyb doesn't have much time for right now, so don't get your hopes too high. Most of the good stuff is currently slated for spring of next year. Here's what we've currently got up on dev for testing with an expected release date of between Christmas and New Years Eve:

  • Add an admin-configurable minimum karma requirement for a journal entry to show up in the Most Recent Journal Entries slashbox. Should eliminate having to see journal spam by folks who don't otherwise contribute anything to the site.
  • Fixed the <spoiler> and a couple other unnoticed tags to work properly in journal entries.
  • Removed the size limit on Editor Notes (the admin page ones, not the ones Eds add to the bottom of a story). Should make takyon happy.
  • Put a link to the submission queue on the left sidebar.
  • Fixed the spacing around <ol> and <ul> lists.
  • Made chromas have to work harder to post comments with no apparent subject or text.
  • Fixed an annoying bug in the admin interface that was trying to use a comment mode no longer in existence.

Like I said, not a whole lot there on account of us not having time to thoroughly test much what with the holidays coming up. Here's the list (using tinyurl due to a Rehash bug that will definitely make the Spring 2018 cut) of what we'd like to get done for this spring if you're curious though.

Them of you of the disposition to celebrate Christmas, have a merry one. Them of you who celebrate otherwise, happy whatever you're celebrating. Them of you who don't celebrate at all, have a happy rest of December.

[Ed note: I nudged the time this story was due to be released by just a few minutes so that it coincided with the beginning of the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere... and the Summer Solstice for those of you who are south of the equator. Maybe we can get the next release out at the start of the equinox (2018-03-20 @ 16:15:00 UTC). --martyb]

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @05:06PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @05:06PM (#612844)

    Errr, did I miss something? Pretty sure they meant the story was submitted but wasn't approved for publication. I too have seen this happen quite often, perhaps there should be a B-list article page with articles have an up/down mod for themselves. Get more than X upmods and the story hits the front page. No censorship here except for editors deciding what is allowed to be seen :P

    Starting Score:    0  points
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    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 21 2017, @05:20PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday December 21 2017, @05:20PM (#612852) Journal

    Whoops, I don't call it the queue. I call them the submission(s) list and story list/main page/front page/etc. but queue confuses me because it could be either one.

    Things that are likelier to get deleted are politics, flamebait, dupes, old news items, non-news items like "What the Hell Is an Initial Coin Offering?", entertainment, soyvertisements, and items with factual inaccuracies (there's an ed note on the Ireland Apple tax story).

    A firehose would be interesting. I also like the idea of an ultimate off-topic journal where comments about anything at all can be dumped. That could be done manually (make a new one every month for example).

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    • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday December 21 2017, @05:58PM (2 children)

      by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday December 21 2017, @05:58PM (#612865) Journal

      Just don't do it like Slashdot does it. There, stories get hot on the firehose, and the editors post stories that don't and completely ignore the stories that got voted up.

      If it gets voted up, then the readers want it. If the site's not for readers, who the heck is it for?

      In the case of Slashdot, we know the answer to that: it's for the owners. Which carries notable weight in the list of reasons I ended up over here so often, paying for a subscription, etc.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @06:35PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @06:35PM (#612880)

        You have forgotten what you are, your the food not the diner

        • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday December 21 2017, @06:41PM

          by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday December 21 2017, @06:41PM (#612885) Journal

          You have forgotten what you are, your[sic] the food not the diner

          In these cases, I'm volunteer food, and if the diner is abusive, I will decline to volunteer as much, or at all, depending on the level of abuse.

          Which, again, is part of how I ended up over here and posting a lot less on slashdot. Because they are not guided by the volunteer nature of the readership. Which probably also accounts for part of the significant loss of activity over there by other posters as well.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Thursday December 21 2017, @09:02PM (1 child)

    by edIII (791) on Thursday December 21 2017, @09:02PM (#612955)

    Um, I guess I'm lucky. All of my submissions are accepted, except one dupe, and one rejected. I pretty much assume that if I write the submission well it will be accepted. Fuck, they accepted that article about the bird hitting the plane.... :)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @10:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @10:02PM (#612976)

      super useful for solving the problem, thanks