new code going live
We've got new stuff going live on the site today -- this past week has been bug-fix-ariffic! We've also made significant changes to the notifications system, but to help us keep things organized (and to help you guys know what's been reported), I'm going to break that off into a separate post after this one.
Bugfixes
As always, if you run into any problems with any of the stuff we've changed, feel free to comment here and we'll look into it. I'll try my best to keep a Known Issues list here, too -- I know I didn't keep up with it last week, and I apologize for that. If you have questions about LiveJournal, or reports of bugs unrelated to anything listed above, please open a support request instead.
Bugfixes
- Fixing the tags management pages so that non-English character tags (eg, Cyrillic) will work
- Specify the encoding in all outgoing email so that non-ASCII email (such as the Russian password reset message) will work
- Fixing a typo in the priv descriptions
- Allowing OpenID users to transcribe voiceposts
- Fixing the Internal Server Error (HTTP 500) when logged-out users try to use ?s2id=X
- Fix the error message that you get when you upload a GIF userpic over 40kb (it was giving the dimensions error message)
- Fixing the FriendsPage module in the Portal when your friend has no default userpic
- Fixing the Userpic Factory so you can use it when uploading a userpic to a community
- Skip showing previews for any theme called "(None)"
- Accounting for loyalty userpics when showing the "you've uploaded X of Y userpics!" message on editpics
- Messages to upgrade on the customize pages link to the right place, depending on whether you're a person or community
- Fix for the bug where HTML would be displayed in the title of an entry if you used an lj user tag in the subject/start of post
- Don't show the navigation strip "did you know" module to people who've explicitly turned it off
- Fixing userpic selector so layouts with white text don't cause the text to disappear, take two.
- Fixing links in some S2 styles so they point to http://exampleusername.livejournal.com rather than http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/
- Fixing Horizon so Internet Explorer users can highlight text properly
- Adding anchors to the comments in Expressive so you can link directly to an entry.
- Fixing Expressive's frozen-comment text so it functions as it should
- Removing "Show Heading for New Day" and "Show Posting Time on Entries" from Expressive, since they never worked.
- Don't display tags in Expressive in huge font when each tag is only used once; display them in smaller size text.
- Major updates to the syndication aggregation mechanism; feeds should update on a more regular basis now.
- Linking the default userpic in Horizon to allpics.bml, instead of editpics.bml
- Adding a tags list component to the Component layout
- Adding a number of commonly-used phrases (such as Previous Entry, Next Entry, etc.) to the S2 Core layer
- Changing the location of the vertical ad in Flexible Squares so it's within the sidebar instead of outside of it
- Adding ?skip= links to "S1 Shortcomings", so S1 users can page through their tag views
- Updating the theme previews page so logged-out users and S1 users can see theme previews for a layout.
- Change community membership approve/deny emails to now come from lj_notify@, rather than webmaster@
- New "Did you know" modules for Expressive and for ad placement options
- Adding layout previews for both Bloggish and Expressive
- Adding "sticky post" to Expressive, so you can have text remain at the top of your layout (available in the "Custom Options" tab)
- Adding options of which sidebar modules to display in Expressive (calendar, profile, tags, etc.)
- Adding an option to Expressive to choose whether you want a tag cloud or just a list of tags
- FRNK radio! http://www.livejournal.com/radio/ -- a live stream of all the latest public voiceposts to LiveJournal. (Friends-only, custom, or private voiceposts aren't included in this.)
As always, if you run into any problems with any of the stuff we've changed, feel free to comment here and we'll look into it. I'll try my best to keep a Known Issues list here, too -- I know I didn't keep up with it last week, and I apologize for that. If you have questions about LiveJournal, or reports of bugs unrelated to anything listed above, please open a support request instead.