Release #91

[markf]

Release #91 is live!

New Features:

• Community owners, maintainers, and moderators can now edit the tags of moderated entries before approving the entry.
• Who approved an entry in a community will now be shown beneath the subject line to community owners & maintainers. This feature is only available if the site default comment pages are being used.

Comments

[songquake]

Thanks for the updates and fixes. I'm not a huge fan of the new scissors icon, though (cute as it is); I liked the parentheses because it showed easily where the lj-cut ended even if the person didn't start a new line at the end of the cut text.

[schnee]

Yes, this. I often do things like this, myself:

This is some text, and

[persuna]

Yes, exactly! This is not going to be so clear and flexible. I often work my cut into a sentence so that the entry works both with and without, and now I won't be able to do that. :(

[lone_defender]

I think the idea is so that you can't fake-cut people other places this way?

[moonilicious]

The problem with the cut tag display is that the scissors icon is too small and therefore barely visible. It also displays as "[icon] [three bold dots] followed by text that looks like a link" for me. The dots are the only thing that currently help me distinguish cut tags from regular links, and I'm not sure the dots are meant to be there?

Also, on a completely different matter: are there any plans to ever let community owners / maintainers edit entires? Sometimes all that's needed is an added cut tag or a font change. I find it frustrating that I'm not allowed to fix such things and instead have to bother the poster about it who often doesn't reply or know how to fix the issue themselves. Conflicts could be avoided simply by adding an edit history that shows the past version or lists what's been changed.

[astronewt]

It is highly unlikely that allowing maints/owners to actually edit a user's post would ever be implemented -- the potential for abuse of such a feature is simply too high. Adding tags and such is 'extra' information and therefore allowed, but the main body of the post (the 'words of the author', so to speak) will probably always only be editable by that author.

[moonilicious]

That's unfortunate. I get what you're saying re: "words of the author", but with edits recorded and publicly accessible, I think that's a system that could work. Is there any place I could log this as a suggestion, just in case there's someone out there who agrees with me and could make it happen?

As for my problem with the new cut tag, I took a screen cap to illustrate it.

[astronewt]

I've filed a ticket on the three dots, as they didn't appear in beta so I'm not sure they're supposed to -- they could potentially be a last-minute addition of some kind, but I agree they don't look right. It looked better without them, etc.

And the size of the image in your pic there is definitely a problem -- I'm reporting that as well. Thanks for the pic of that. :)

[kuiskata]

Thanks for fixing the issue with icons with multiple keywords.

I'm really not liking the little scissors icon for lj-cuts, though. It feels like it's just adding clutter to the page. The parentheses were a much cleaner way of demarcating a cut.

[ersatzkapitaen]

Agree with what was said before, the parentheses were much easier to distinguish as a cut and the 3 dots just look untidy. This way I'll consider adding parentheses to the lj-cut text myself to make them stand out better. They just fade too much with only the small icon to distinguish them from any other link.

[subluxate]

There is now a small scissors icon - ✂ - to denote where an lj-cut has been used in an entry.

...why? Literally since LJ's inception, it's been parenthetical and bold. This change seems so arbitrary and, if anything, a backslide in that it's really not useful and actually counterintuitive--it looks like an offsite link, and I wouldn't have known except my wife pointed out those were cuts and I hadn't verified on my own journal and then here.

Seriously, why?

Edited for wrong word.

[kellzilla]

I miss parenthetical and bold lj cuts. :(

I can barely see the scissors. The three dots looks like crap.

[subluxate]

They don't even show up on my wife's computer. I had to check cuts on my own journal for exactly what they look like; she just saw the dots. It's not an image, it's a character, and that is bad form.

[arethinn]

Agree totally.