Second Update: Daily Kos site maintenance rolled back

Daily Kos Staff

Wednesday April 17, 2024 · 7:52 PM PDT

2024/04/17 · 19:52

The site maintenance didn’t quite go as planned and we reverted to the former version.

Please comment on this post if you see any issues with site performance following this migration period. You may need to log out and log back in again.

We appreciate your patience and continued support of Daily Kos!

Daily Kos Site Support: Getting Started

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Daily Kos Staff

Friday August 20, 2021 · 11:30 AM PDT

2021/08/20 · 11:30

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Behind the scenes at Daily Kos, staff in multiple departments (Product, Tech, Community, and Trending to name a few) strive to make it as easy as possible for site members to take full advantage of the site’s features. The main repository for the tools and resources we provide is the Help Desk, hosted on a new platform since early 2021.

The layout you see when you arrive at that page displays a number of links at the top related to the most commonly-asked questions. Below that list you’ll see a number of tiles bearing labels we hope are self-explanatory. “Site Status,” “Welcome to Daily Kos,” and “Video How-Tos” fill the first row.

“Site Status” is a useful resource to keep handy juuuust in case you have persistent trouble loading the site; that tile includes a story with the status.dailykos.com link, the one to consult for verifying a known outage. (It is possible, of course, that you’d be the first to notice it, before the on-call developer has had a chance to investigate—but unlikely.) “Welcome to Daily Kos” is populated with a number of text-heavy tutorials that we will explore soon in another post. The third one, “Video How-Tos,” is the category I’d like to discuss in some detail today.

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