Release #90

[markf]

Release #90 is live!

New features:

• Sticky posts: There's now an option on the Update page to "Make sticky post". Selecting this option will cause the entry to show up as the top entry to anyone who views your journal. This works for both personal journals and communities. You can only have 1 sticky entry in each journal; if you attempt to post

Comments

[kore_on_lj]

Comments left by deleted accounts will display again, instead of incorrectly showing all comments as having been deleted.

Wait, what? Isn't there an option to delete all your comments when you delete an account? So is that no longer happening?

[fiddlingfrog]

There was a bug where comments from people who had deleted their accounts but had chosen not to delete their comments were showing up as deleted when viewed with the default comment style. The comments would still show up (as they should) if the entry was viewed in a custom style. And now the bug is fixed.

[ron_newman]

How do I apply this bug fix to my community (davis_square), where I still see this problem?

[markf]

There is an option to do this still, yes. The issue was that people who didn't select the option to delete all their comments when deleting their journal still had their comments show up as "deleted" despite being non-deleted comments.

[bandicoot]

Well, just to maintain tradition, you broke the placeholder function. There used to be a choice of image size to determine whether or not placeholders were displayed. The help file still talks about that choice, but the ability to actually choose has vanished. Now, instead of placeholders on my friends page, I have full sized blank outlines. How, exactly, is this supposed to be an improvement?

Anything else I might have to say would involve extensive use of obscenities, so I'll just give up. In disgust.

[doire]

Just coming here to report this. I have grey boxes for all images, even the tiny ones I previously allowed.

Future-dated stickies still possible

[fiddlingfrog]

It's still possible to have multiple future-dated stickies, in addition to the single new-style sticky you can have per journal. The Post an Entry page only checks to see if an entry should be a delayed entry when you first hit Post. This means that
1) Your existing future-dated stickies will stay right where they are, at the top of your journal, until you re-date them to move them away.
2) If you want new future-dated stickies you need to post regularly without changing the date. Then, edit your new entry and change the date to something in the future. That's it, no more checkbox to "Date Out of Order" needed.

[fic_faery]

This information would be a lot more accessible if it was in the body of the post... or if you had a subject line to really make it pop instead of just some bold font inside the comment.

[bluesuit_handy]

Ahahaha, am viewing in custom style - that is the subject line. LJ's own people aren't using the default comment pages, and assume we aren't, either. Really says something about the usability of your product when your own support staff doesn't want to use it.

Suspect you realized this and were being sarcastic, but found it too funny not to comment on it.

[fiddlingfrog]

Actually, I am using the default comment pages. I'm just using a couple of Greasemonkey scripts to give me back the subject field and preview button.

[cloex_brosluvr]

Why did you make the light blue line a l l t h e w a y a c r o s s t h e t o p ? It was just fine with it right underneath the little icon buttons (previous, memorize, share...)!

I'm really getting sick of the color blue.

[kuiskata]

I suspected there was a new release! Mostly because all of my old links for communities mysteriously stopped working. (if it's "username.livejournal.com", it works as usual, but if it's "community.livejournal.com/username", it stops working entirely and I get a page telling me that it couldn't load because "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete".)

May be completely unrelated, but it'd be a huge pain to have to manually change everything - I've got thousands of tags I'd have to go through. (Yeah, I probably should go file a proper bug report...)

[markf]

What version of FireFox? (The old community.livejournal.com/username format redirects me to username.livejournal.com and loads the page for me in FireFox 11, it might be a version thing)

[kuiskata]

Maybe - I'm still on 10.0.2. I'll go update that...

It was odd, though, because I was opening several links at once, and the first few opened and redirected fine but by the last few, I kept getting the error messages. It was all over the course of about ten minutes.

ETA: Alas, no. I'm now on Firefox 11 and it's still not redirecting. Worse case I suppose I could change them over as I need them...

[astronewt]

Can you provide a link to a public entry/comment/page where this behavior is happening? I also haven't been able to replicate it, and it definitely wasn't an intentional change that this redirection stopped working.