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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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @08:00PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @08:00PM (#612931)

    It might be nice if the super intelligent coders of SHIT STAIN NEWS could code a fix to stop the subject line from being truncated when "Re:" is prefixed. Sadly such a simple fix is beneath their highly advanced rockstar coding skillz.

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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @08:07PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @08:07PM (#612933)

    cocks in the land.

    • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @08:09PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @08:09PM (#612934)

      cock in hand.

      • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @08:37PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @08:37PM (#612938)

        mmmmmmmmmm cock.

        8======D-~. .

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday December 21 2017, @09:04PM (3 children)

    by edIII (791) on Thursday December 21 2017, @09:04PM (#612956)

    Sounds like you have them skills. Care to participate and contribute?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @10:06PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @10:06PM (#612980)

      No.

      I would much rather see this site utterly destroyed and irrevocably erased from history.

      Die, SoylentNews, Die.

      • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday December 21 2017, @11:32PM

        by Sulla (5173) on Thursday December 21 2017, @11:32PM (#613020) Journal

        At a loss here, did you lose your job with Correct The Record and take a position with Dice?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 22 2017, @12:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 22 2017, @12:09AM (#613042)

      No because I only sound like I have skills, by pure osmosis from being around computers and developers for so long, I have considered volunteering to mod/move stories along but that would require me to register an account and I learned that lesson in 98/99 with my slashdot account. I think I logged in maybe twice and just posted AC otherwise, and despite the large number of books I own on perl, ruby, C,C++, lisp and a variety of other languages, I am a terrible programmer that would have a good day if I made a for loop work, so no

  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday December 21 2017, @11:16PM (1 child)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 21 2017, @11:16PM (#613015) Journal

    Slightly paraphrasing the parent comment:

    It might be nice if [there were] a fix to stop the subject line from being truncated when "Re:" is prefixed.

    That has bugged me from my days way back in the beginning of Slashdot. Unless I missed something, the fix should only be a minor change to one template: edit_comment;comments;default so I tried implementing it on our dev server.

    The template has a hardcoded value of "50" for the length of the text entry field for entering the Subject of a new comment. Reducing that to "46" should provide room for "Re: " to be prepended and still fit in the 50-char field.

    May need to visit other templates to handle Top-Level Comments (TLCs) to a posting to a Journal and/or to a Poll.

    I implemented an ad-hoc change on dev [soylentnews.org] using the template editor... feel free to try it out.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 22 2017, @12:18AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 22 2017, @12:18AM (#613045)

      I see what you are saying about the re.. but my subject was the max the comment would allow and maybe I miss my count but that is 42 including the white space, so ok maybe it is a hard problem, screw you commander taco!