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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: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday December 21 2017, @11:06PM (2 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday December 21 2017, @11:06PM (#613012) Homepage Journal

    I don't know who they came for first. But they came after Ethanol-fueled with many, many down-mods. Because he's proud to be a white man. And they came after aristarchus, with many, many Spam mods. They rejected his stories, a lot of his stories. And some they accepted, but they hid them, they call it Held. So he thought they were running his stories, they didn't run them. He's a nut job or just has a low I.Q., so they pretend to accept his stories. I call it a shadow ban. They came after Sulla, they banned him from moderating. And he lost his Karma bonus. Because he's a true patriot. They came after fakefuck39, she can only tweet once a day. Because they gave her Negative Karma. And it's not easy to see her tweets, in a way they're hidden. With a Negative Score. I'll tell you, she's a nasty woman, she never, ever has anything nice to say. Especially about the folks who run the site. Who run SoylentNews. They don't like her tweets, they want to see her tweets, who can blame them for that? So they silenced her, they almost silenced her. That's not right, folks. I didn't say anything before, I'm saying it now.

    Most importantly, they came after me. With Spam mods. Each one takes away 10 Karma, very hard to get that back. Karma falling very, very fast. And they reject my stories, some of my stories. Very important story I turned in yesterday, about our terrific Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, rejected very quickly! And now they're getting ready to take away my journal. Because my Karma isn't enough, they'll say. But really because it doesn't advance the Dem agenda. And because I'm a winner. I have an SMS shortcut and they don't. I know how to promote myself and they don't. And I signed the biggest Tax Cut in the history of the world. Which my folks in Congress have been working on for years. They're after me, believe me. And there will be no one left to tweet for you, the great American people. ONE TEAM, ONE PEOPLE, ONE AMERICAN FAMILY! 🇺🇸

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  • (Score: 2) by drussell on Friday December 22 2017, @06:33AM (1 child)

    by drussell (2678) on Friday December 22 2017, @06:33AM (#613134) Journal

    Ok, now we KNOW you aren't the real Donald J. Trump!

    That post was almost coherent and even mostly spelled correctly!

    Can't possibly be the real deal! :)

    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday December 24 2017, @11:04PM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday December 24 2017, @11:04PM (#613975) Homepage Journal

      Grammar Nazis are the worst kind of Nazi. Except for spelling Nazis. What I meant was the moderators & administrators DON'T want to see tweets from fakefuck39.