Release 83

[markf]

Release 83 is now live!

Features:

• Spam protection is now available for your LiveJournal inbox in addition to comments! If you have enabled the Spam Protection setting, messages sent to your LiveJournal inbox which are suspected as being spam will be automatically moved to a Suspicious Messages folder. This feature works much like spam

Comments

[shatterstripes]

I don't think the new rich text editor icons are an improvement! The new ones are smaller, and all have exactly the same silhouette due to the box around them.

Oh, and whatever happened to the "delete as spam" option when hitting the "delete comment" link in a comment e-mail?

[fiddlingfrog]

Marking a comment as spam has been moved to its own button and isn't tied to deleting the comment anymore. Unfortunately, right now there's no direct way to mark the comment as spam from the e-mail.
What you need to do now is to visit the comment here on LJ and press the "spam" link that shows up alongside all the other comment-action links (Link | Reply | Thread | Delete | Spam | Screen | Freeze | Track This). If you don't have a "spam" link in your style your theme layer might need updating to make it visible.

[shatterstripes]

Ah, thanks, I didn't know there was a "spam" button. I seem to remember that the comment action links are laid in by one LJ call but maybe I'm wrong. Hooray for extra work.

[fiddlingfrog]

In a properly built layout all the comment action links are placed by a single function, but I've seen some themes where the designer specifically modified each action link instead of passing them all through. I only mentioned it because I didn't see the "track this" option when looking at a comment on your journal. Nevermind, I see that "Track this" is a button for you.

[shenai]

The new buttons look worse than the old ones.

And the "Cut Wizard" or whatever that is supposed to be has made it impossible to edit entries in anything but html mode. The parts under a cut that is.

Thanks for the "improvements".

[chaotic_binky]

This!

[sasaki18]

agreed...

[brontefanatic]

Agreed!!!

I can't edit or update anything in this new editor and make it stick.

As a person who is not html literate, this "improvement" is a big step backward for me.

[surrey_sucks]

The Filter and Calendar features on the Navigation Strip must be clicked before displaying dropdowns instead of automatically displaying when hovering over them.

YES YES YES YES YES!!!! Thank you so much! It's so nice to not to constantly have my LJ obscured by the calendar! (I really hate things that pop up when you accidentally hover over it.)

LIVEJOURNAL YOU STILL HAVE BUGS

[campylobacter]

Switching from the HTML window to the Rich Text window & back again disables any subsequent changes made in the HTML window.

The "Disable Auto Formatting" checkbox works in the exact OPPOSITE way it did before; extra carriage returns appear when you least expect it.

The hover text that appears when editing text behind an LJ-cut in the Rich Text window is annoying and prevents editing.

Image attributes (width, height, alt, etc.) must now be specified by "hand" in the HTML view because the input fields are now missing from the Rich Text Image wizard.

I AM DISAPPOINT.

Re: LIVEJOURNAL YOU STILL HAVE BUGS

[brontefanatic]

Yes to everything you listed.

I was just beginning to feel comfortable posting, now I can't update or edit anything.

Re: LIVEJOURNAL YOU STILL HAVE BUGS

[spn_j2fan]

I'm glad I'm not the only one! LJ, please fix this issue!

Re: LIVEJOURNAL YOU STILL HAVE BUGS

[dark_puck]

Image attributes (width, height, alt, etc.) must now be specified by "hand" in the HTML view because the input fields are now missing from the Rich Text Image wizard.

Not so.

In order to get to the input fields, you must first insert the picture, and then open the image wizard again.

Still a pain in the ass, however. :/ I liked being able to do it all in one window.

[wendymr]

I think you need to go back to the drawing board on the new RT editor.

* the buttons are too small. Not all of us have perfect eyesight, and even with glasses I had to get very close to the screen to see them, and for several of them I only worked out what they were for once I hovered my mouse over them.

* where's the 'remove hyperlink' button?

* the LJ cut function does not work in any kind of usable way:

- Yes, it creates the cut and I can type inside it, but if I move the mouse away from the greyed-out area I get a pop-up box telling me that Cut must be edited inside the Cut Wizard. Go to Cut Wizard. When I click on the link... it opens the cut text box again. WTF?

- If I go into HTML editing and make changes, which I occasionally do if the RT editor is being a pain, when I then go back into the RT editor any changes I've made in the HTML editor disappear.

- if I try to paste from a Word document into the cut, the editor dumps the text outside the cut (and still loses my Word font setting, as well as adding extra space

[fiddlingfrog]

You'd be surprised how many Support request get filed from people who want to know how to insert the Twitter or Google or Facebook "like" buttons.

[wendymr]

Plenty of support requests also got filed by people wanting to have all Twitface buttons removed from their posting windows. I saw them.

[yaaresse]

All this.

Now that I've had a chance to use the new bar, I'm finding the exact same results as above. These buttons are very difficult to see and distinguish from each other.

I'm getting huge areas of white space after each paragraph. If I try to edit, the default is HTML (which I don't do or else I wouldn't so desperately need the RTF editor0. And, yes, the loop on the cut feature is a no-win.

I also find the "like" button nonsense, but I can totally live with it as long as everything else on the bar works.

Good ideas, but looks like they need further testing.