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Livejournal Release 96.5: All Your Update/Edit Entry Forms Are Belong To Us
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 07:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nookiepowered[News post | LJ Releases post]
The Good:
Scrapbook (whatever one's opinion may be on the new setup) now offers 1 GB of space to free users.
The Thing Where I'm Just Going To Listen To Your Complaints And Nod Unless I Can Actually Help:
The updated version of the New/Edit Entry page (which I mentioned briefly last month is live for all to test and play with. In a shocking move for Livejournal staff, it's still in beta mode. For now (no info on when that will change), you can switch back and forth between the old and new versions, and LJ staff invites bug reports and general feedback on both the News and LJ Releases posts.
Here's some (full-size) images of the pages, for those who don't feel like going into their own journals and experimenting right now:
Old Entry Form | New Entry Form
Aside from the general visual differences, the big changes seem to be:
* The icon selector (visual, not text, like the new comments style) -- the issues there are pretty obvious and the same ones that exist with default comment pages. There's a way around this, though: a "Light" version of the new form, accessible by adding ?format=light to the end of the update page URL. (This only works if you've switched to the new format, of course.) It isn't terribly different from the non-light version, but does give you a drop-down text icon selector instead of the visual.
* A few option boxes getting shuffled around to different places.
* The big text box itself, which will now stretch downward as you type, once you've put in more text than the initial size would show. To scroll, you just use the browser's scrollbar, rather than dealing with a second one inside the entry box. (Some users have reported that if you enter enough text, it stops expanding downward and you have to use the arrow keys or mouse clicking to get around inside the entry box, but I haven't managed to enter enough text to make that happen. After pasting in the entirety of a fic that I know exceeds the character limit of a post, I still hadn't managed to make it happen, so it seems unlikely to be a frequent issue.)
*The tag selector - actually looks pretty useful in theory, since it pops up a neatly alphabetized list, but right now there's a bug being reported that any tags that start with a character that's not a letter or a number don't show up. (So basically Katchoo is @#$!$%^%$^%$*&*&-ing @@%&^%-ed.) That one will presumably get fixed, since it's a straightforward bug and not a design issue. ETA: fixed!
That's all I gots, for the moment; I'm sure more will crop up as people discover things that do or don't work.
The Good:
Scrapbook (whatever one's opinion may be on the new setup) now offers 1 GB of space to free users.
The Thing Where I'm Just Going To Listen To Your Complaints And Nod Unless I Can Actually Help:
The updated version of the New/Edit Entry page (which I mentioned briefly last month is live for all to test and play with. In a shocking move for Livejournal staff, it's still in beta mode. For now (no info on when that will change), you can switch back and forth between the old and new versions, and LJ staff invites bug reports and general feedback on both the News and LJ Releases posts.
Here's some (full-size) images of the pages, for those who don't feel like going into their own journals and experimenting right now:
Old Entry Form | New Entry Form
Aside from the general visual differences, the big changes seem to be:
* The icon selector (visual, not text, like the new comments style) -- the issues there are pretty obvious and the same ones that exist with default comment pages. There's a way around this, though: a "Light" version of the new form, accessible by adding ?format=light to the end of the update page URL. (This only works if you've switched to the new format, of course.) It isn't terribly different from the non-light version, but does give you a drop-down text icon selector instead of the visual.
* A few option boxes getting shuffled around to different places.
* The big text box itself, which will now stretch downward as you type, once you've put in more text than the initial size would show. To scroll, you just use the browser's scrollbar, rather than dealing with a second one inside the entry box. (Some users have reported that if you enter enough text, it stops expanding downward and you have to use the arrow keys or mouse clicking to get around inside the entry box, but I haven't managed to enter enough text to make that happen. After pasting in the entirety of a fic that I know exceeds the character limit of a post, I still hadn't managed to make it happen, so it seems unlikely to be a frequent issue.)
*The tag selector - actually looks pretty useful in theory, since it pops up a neatly alphabetized list, but right now there's a bug being reported that any tags that start with a character that's not a letter or a number don't show up. (So basically Katchoo is @#$!$%^%$^%$*&*&-ing @@%&^%-ed.) That one will presumably get fixed, since it's a straightforward bug and not a design issue. ETA: fixed!
That's all I gots, for the moment; I'm sure more will crop up as people discover things that do or don't work.
