Greetings, Cranky Users! You may recall that my initial purchase of a lifetime subscription to Daily Kos, in April, was followed immediately by a notice that my subscription/lifetime would be expiring that day. Of course, that was just short-term-subscription boilerplate getting filled in for a lifetime subscription term, with that day's date as its non-existent expiration date. Or so we thought...
Yes, the Great Orange Reaper was abroad in the land again this week, this time as a result of some improvements described by ct in his recent diary. Below the squiggle, we'll consider the contents of that diary and two recent ones by elfling, seen HERE and HERE.
Let me begin by saying that the highlight of the week, to me, was the advent of the AUTOMATIC RECOMMENDED TAG! Yes, as of now, the many advocates for this change may relax, because if a diary makes the rec list (defined as, appearing for any length of time amongst the 12 diaries listed in the Recommended box on the Front Page), the Recommended tag will be added automatically by the system, using the same knowledge it uses to put the diary on the Rec List to begin with. Further, as elfling notes in response to questions, the tag cannot be manually removed, once assigned by the system. It looks as if it can be, but it will return, because the data behind it is stored elsewhere. Similarly, it cannot be falsely added manually.
Now, I know the many advocates for this change will not actually relax until they see it's working properly. But for starters, everybody quit adding the tag manually, and let's keep an eye out and make sure it happens by itself. And spread the word to others that they should stop typing and start checking for the auto-add instead.
Also!!! I have another thing I'm pleased about, that, if it was mentioned in any of the update diaries, I missed it. Indeed, it may have been around for a while without my noticing, because I had mostly trained myself not to click [Parent] on comments, knowing it would annoyingly carry me off to a different page. But yesterday I clicked -- and it's the way it used to work in DK3, just moving up on the same page to the parent comment. So yaaaay!!! And many thanks to whomever fixed that one!
There are some other items of interest, too.
- Group contributors are now able to view, in a group queue, the diaries they've republished, in addition to those they've written, and can add queue notes to them to communicate with the editors.
- If you update a published diary (using the Update button, not the Edit button), the updates will get a timestamp in Pacific time. Gabriel D explains why.
- In our CNFTT diary on Sunday, we talked about the "breadcrumbs" being added to the end of diary urls temporarily to indicate where readers came from (eg ?via=stream). Some of us wondered if links would still work once these passed out of use. rs arrived late to tell us yes, they will.
- For RSS users, a link has been added to the See More By box for a user or group, so it's easier to find.
- Anomalies had been reported in hidden comments, where comments were listed as hidden with insufficient HRs. A fix is coming soon, according to elfling; the culprit seems to be a miscount of withdrawn ratings. (UPDATE: according to his brand-new diary, ct fixed it last night, and then riffed very amusingly on Job 40:15-17.)
- Of course, the subscription issues were fixed. The initial fix was to recurring, auto-renew subscriptions pre-dating DK4, some of which had gone to no-man's land and should be back now. The secondary bug, giving "improper expiration dates" to lifetime subscribers, has also been fixed.
And then, there was this (recs/sigs snipped for readability):
Wel, I Like It All, but. . . (4+ / 0-)
I have these dust bunnies under my computer. What can you do about fixing them?
Thanks in advance.
;^)
by Limelite on Wed Jun 01, 2011 at 11:45:56 AM EDT
I recommend dust coyotes n/t (3+ / 0-)
by elfling on Wed Jun 01, 2011 at 02:11:57 PM EDT
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