Changes to City Desk
You may notice a few changes on City Desk this morning: avatar placeholders in the comments, new formatting on the footers of blog articles and in the sidebar, etc. These are due to a much-needed upgrade that took place last night.
The avatars are not currently enabled, since we’re still figuring out how to handle user profiles across our blogs. This is something we want to do, but we’re working incrementally to get the infrastructure in place. The present upgrade was intended to close a few security holes in our Wordpress software and get the publishing interface up to date. Some snazzy new front-end stuff will follow, but there are no major changes in that area today.
Questions? Comments? Gripes? All are welcome.
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11:41 am
will there be a comment preview option?
1:06 pm
But the current setup remembers me, and it’s simple and elegant! I don’t want to have to upload a photo, create a profile, etc.
2:10 pm
sara.h: Comment preview is a great idea. That’s definitely something we should look into doing.
Mr. T in DC: Yeah, we definitely want to impose as little overhead as possible. I don’t think we’ll ever have a setup where you *have* to upload a photo or anything like that. But what if your “profile” could be as simple as a username and password that identifies you? Browser cookies would remember this pretty reliably. This is an option we’re considering. We’d like to get the right mix of options for people who comment often and people who just want to comment on one post.
10:42 am
Miss the Recent Posts and Recent Comments preview/digest.
12:05 pm
Second that.
1:33 pm
I will fix it.
9:51 am
Nice, one down. How about *all* the blogs.