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Welcome to Release 0.8.12. Elz, Enigel, Jenny S-T, Naomi, Sarken, and Tegan contributed code to this release, which was tested by our awesome testing team: Jenn, Kylie, mumble, Sam J., Sarken, Xparrot, and Zebra.
Highlights!
Character and Relationship Feeds
After a trial run with the "F/F" tag and the subsequent offering of fandom feeds, we're now enabling feeds for (canonical) character and relationship tags (the same ones that show up in our browse filters). As before, you will see a "Subscribe to the feed" link on works pages for a character or relationship, such as Katniss Everdeen or Bunny/Wild Tiger. We'll be monitoring the performance impact of these and will be considering adding more feed options if everything is running well!
Editable Drafts
Before, it wasn't possible to save changes to work and chapter drafts without posting them, which wasn't ideal. We're hoping to flesh out our drafts feature more in the future, but for now, we've added an option to save changes to drafts after previewing them. Hopefully that's a start that we can build on in making the draft editing/posting workflow better moving forward!
Known Issues
See our Known Issues page for current issues.
Release Details
Features
- Enabled feeds for character and relationship tags
Bug fixes
- Works & Tags & Challenges
- Finally made it possible to save edits to a draft without having to post the draft right away
- Previewing a work would show the "Works inspired by this one:" line even if there weren't any, this has been fixed
- The "Mark as Read" button was moved to the bottom of the work page
- Links to non-fandom tags in work blurbs went to the /tag/xxx page (instead of tag/xxx/works) which didn't redirect properly for logged-in tag wranglers; this has been fixed
- Gift exchanges which allowed optional tags to be used for matching were resulting in all users matching all other users, causing severe issues for several Challenges; this bug has been fixed
- Design & Display
- Made the questions on FAQ pages stand out more for easier scanning
- In the filter box on works pages, only clicking the arrows next to the Rating / Category / Fandom etc. headers would reveal all options; this has been fixed to expand the clickable area across the whole header
- Fixed an issue with the gray preview box when adding and editing chapters
- There were several issues with the edit page for a series, both visible and in terms of accessibility, it has been restructured and updated to follow the layout of the work edit page
- Improved the tag list in work blurbs on static collection pages
- On mobile skins, the sorting buttons for a user's works page were unclickable, this has been fixed and works can be sorted again on mobile devices
- There were a few issues with the "Condition: " display when creating a skin with an option such as "IE6" selected under "IE Only" (or when creating a skin with no options selected), these have been fixed
- Fixed a display issue with the chapter index navigation when viewing a work in chapter-by-chapter mode
- The "New Pseud" button on a user's pseuds index would show up twice in Chrome, this has been fixed
- When editing a multi-chaptered work, two drop-down menus to select a custom stylesheet would show up, this has been fixed
- The download options navigation would overlap the other navigation buttons when Javascript was disabled, this has been fixed
- There was an issue with erroneous commas popping up after tags in work blurbs, in IE8 and lower, this has been fixed--since the fix was done with jQuery it will only work when Javascript is enabled
- The static error pages that would be shown in only the most obscure cases (such as 500.html) were given the look and feel of the Archive error pages
- Search
- Made it possible to search for works by specifying a time frame in the form of "2 days ago" or "1 year ago"; previously it would throw up an error if not given a range in the form of "< 3 days ago”, i.e. “in the past 3 days” (Note that “x weeks ago” will search the entire 7-day-period given, and so on: “3 months ago”, if typed in today, will search the entirety of December)
- The various search pages (Works, Tags, Bookmarks, Users) were linking to each other (or not) in an inconsistent and haphazard manner, they're now all interlinked
- Excluded downloads, searches and external works from indexing by search engines
- On the advanced search page, there was no actual help text for the "Bookmarked?" ticky, resulting in a 404 when clicking the question mark symbol; the appropriate help text has now been added
- Fun with Errors
- Importing works from Fanfiction.net throws an error because they have blocked us from accessing he site - we've now added a custom error message so you can see what went wrong if you try this and it fails
- Fixed a bug that could cause errors 500 on users' History pages
- Fixed a bug that could cause an error 500 when trying to preview a work in very rare cases
- Fixed some problems with fandom feeds that would result in errors if the feed was empty
- Subscribing or unsubscribing from a user or work would result in an error 500 if the user had set their browser to not send referrer information, this has been fixed
- Trying to access the /gifts page within a collection (without selecting a user to display gifts for) would result in an error 500, it now gives a more meaningful error message
- Trying to access a comments index in the form of /works/xxx/comments would result in an error 500, this has been fixed
- Trying to load the profile page of a non-existing user would result in an error 500, it now properly redirects to the home page with an error message
- Trying to load a non-existing fandom page would result in an error 500, it now redirects to the /media page with an error message
- Trying to access the requests summary page for a gift exchange with no fandom tags allowed would cause an error 500, this has been fixed
- Trying to unsubscribe from a user or work without Javascript enabled would result in an error 404, this has been fixed
- Fun with Words
- Changed the text of the invitation emails to encompass a wider variety of fanworks (not just fic)
- Added podfic as a type of fanwork to the greeting on the homepage and invitation emails
- The button on the edit multiple works page said "Update all stories", it now says "Update All Works" as it should
- Fixed some mangled text in the help pop-up for public skins