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Weekly meta-summary of everything!
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Server status and planned downtime annoucements.
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changelog
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Every little change, as it happens.
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lj_dev
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LiveJournal technical development & planning
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lj_biz
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LiveJournal business/marketing development & planning
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Xcolibur, release 3
Wednesday, Mar 19th, 2003 -- 3:18 am
bradfitz |
Changes since last update:- added the full mode ellipsises for everything (common request)
- added more space between comments
- fixed some unclosed tags on a few pages which prevented access (editing styles)
- updated sitemap to not overlap words
Browser we haven't worked on fixing yet:- Safari: the menu at top is busted.
- IE 4, 5, 5.5: doesn't implement CSS correctly... needs special stylesheets. we need to install some old versions of Windows on a spare computer to even get access to those old browsers.
- Netscape 4.x: we'll make a special stylesheet just for it, or keep sending dystopia to it... we'll see.
Basically, we're only testing with Gecko-based browsers, Win-IE 6, Mac-IE 5.2, and Safari right now, but we'll get to everything.
Regarding the left sidebar: I'm thinking we can add it back, but it'll be auto-hiding. It won't be there unless you hover your mouse over the region, then it'll appear until you move the mouse out for a half second. I just hate the ugly cluttered sidebar when you don't need it... but it is convenient when you're looking for something, I agree.
Also, color: yes, we are kinda bright and bland at this point. Lot of people like that, though, and I kinda do... but we'll experiment with some changes before resting.
I think this'll be the last update for tonight.
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Xcolibur updates
Wednesday, Mar 19th, 2003 -- 1:45 am
bradfitz |
We've been reading the 500+ comments that came in after the announcement of the new xcolibur design and making lots of changes.
( Details... )
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LiveJournal T-Shirts
Tuesday, Mar 18th, 2003 -- 8:18 pm
bradfitz |
And for birthday surprise #3 of 3....
T-Shirts!
http://www.livejournal.com/news/tshirt-pics.bml
They should start arriving tomorrow and should all be here by next week (we've pre-ordered over 4,000!), at which time we'll start doing sales.
We'll be selling them just hardly above cost, which was pretty cheap since we pre-ordered so many. It's not our intention to make profit on this. It's best to just get people happy & wearing them. :-)
BTW, we did end up getting larger sizes, but only in black/white/grey, if I recall correctly. Anyway, more details (sizes/exact measurements/costs) next week....
Happy Birthday!
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New site look!
Tuesday, Mar 18th, 2003 -- 4:01 pm
bradfitz |
Birthday surprise #2 of 3....
We've been talking about redesigning the look of the site for ages, but thanks to colin and jproulx, it's finally happened. The new scheme is called xcolibur, in tribute of XHTML and Colin. Colin did the original design, and Jesse did the browser compatibility and template creation.
To try it out, go turn on the beta test option:
Advantages of new style include:
- XHTML compliant (many pages, working on the rest... talkread pages will probably never be, since people don't always write clean entries)
- All CSS based:
- Much less markup! (downloads quicker)
- Works great in text browsers, modern browsers, cell-phones, PDAs, etc...
- Less busy (the old design had too many links shown at once)
- Makes it more obvious who you're logged in as
We've been testing this in lots of browsers, but we're not done yet. Please send bug reports to jproulx.
And we're sure many people will hate it (again, the change factor with 400k people) but we'll do our best to address everybody's complaints and get it working well so everybody's happy. That's why it's not the system default yet.
Updates: - The IE6 centering bug is fixed.
- JavaScript wasn't originally required, but IE isn't fully standards compliant, not supporting the pseudo-element :hover on arbitrary elements, so we had to add JS in. We'll work on making the pure CSS version still work, if you're using a good browser like Mozilla.
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New URL formats
Tuesday, Mar 18th, 2003 -- 12:45 am
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One of the aforementioned fun announcements for LiveJournal's birthday is new URL formats.
The format of the new URLs (addresses) have been designed for brevity, cleanliness, internationalization (as little English as possible), future directions, and correctness.
The old addresses still either work as is or redirect to the new ones. There are lots of places on the site linking to old-style URLs still, but those will be fixed over time.
I'm sure there will be some objections to the new format (as happens with all changes), but we did discuss the changes quite a bit and made a bunch of changes as a result of the discussion. The relevant posts/threads are:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_dev/504715.html (old)
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_dev/505274.html (old)
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_dev/505389.html (latest)
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_dev/506779.html
We've been testing this quite a bit, but little problems are sure to pop up. We'll be around all day (as we almost always are) to fix any problems with the change.
The next two birthday announcements will come in 12 hours or so, so don't stay glued to your monitors. :-)
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