October Roundup

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Items covered in this post:

• Search
• Styles
• Communities
• Icon changes
• Crossposting
• Postcards
• Paid Account Pricing

Search

Site search is here! You can set your privacy settings to set whether or not you want your journal to be available to Dreamwidth's search engine or indexed by third party search engines like Google. If you have your settings disallow third party search engines, you won't be available to Dreamwidth's search engine unless you explicitly allow it. Letting others search your journal is on the agenda, too. Another option, "allow search by", will be added to let you specify who is allowed to search your journal.

Styles

First, sticky entries are here! You can add it on the display page on your account settings. This system is implemented so that if you're looking at somebody else's journal, you'll see *their* sticky entries, not yours.

There's also a brand new layout, Skittlish Dreams, ported by kaigou.

Search for "NNWM 2009" and you'll find new Nanowrimo based color themes.

Communities

Community maintainers can now designate a particular post in their community to be shown to new members when they join the community. The option is on the Settings page for your community.

Community maintainers may also now subscribe to notifications of all comments posted in a community, so they don't have to subscribe to every post. You can get this option by going to the "Track" action link on the profile page.

Icon changes

The 'shield' icon on posts filtered to custom access group(s) is now a lock with the tag icon superimposed. The icon for official communities is now .

Crossposting

Automatic crossposting for posts made by clients is now a go. Unfortunately, this caused a bit of an error where imported posts ended up being crossposted again. Fortunately, few people were affected and if you were, you should open up a ticket in Support so the problem can be taken care of.

Postcards

mark is asking for postcards! And if you write your name on the back, he'll write you a custom limerick. Send them to: Mark Smith, 29059 Lassen St, Hayward, CA 94544

Paid Account Pricing

The six month discount from the launch of Open Beta on April 30th is now ended.

Development

• The documentation and support system is gathering the specifications for a rewrite.
• Draft and scheduled posts are next -- give your feedback on the update page redesign
• Photo hosting is also planned -- give your feedback on what features you want
• Recurring payments and virtual gifts are coming
• dw_styles has opened up posting to help spur development communication.

References

Posts in dw_news:

• October 5th, 2009
• October 12th, 2009
• *facepalm*
• October 19th, 2009
• October 26th, 2009

Code tours:

• Code tour: 10/6 to 10/12
• Code tour, 10/13-10/19
• Code Tour, 10/20-10/27

October posts in dw_maintenance.