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Journals R10 Install Successful (Plus, the beta/prod divorce)
Hi folks -- as I mentioned last night, the R10 install went live early this morning. It went pretty smoothly -- here are some open issues:
* Alerts: Some people are seeing problems with New Entry Alerts. Comment Added Alerts seem to be okay. The Journals team is checking with the Alerts team for a fix.
* Comments: The displayed comment count doesn't refresh immediately upon getting new comments. Also, using IE 7.0 to delete the last comment in an entry throws a Javascript error.
* Beta Journals: There are some problems with the Journals beta database (Beta database. Beta database. Beta database. Say it out loud), so the beta is not available right now.
Also, Ops tells me that when beta does come back up, posts that you make on beta Journals won't show up on Production anymore (the beta and production databases have been split), so don't use the beta for publishing anymore.
This is important, so I'll say it again: The Journals Beta and Production databases have divorced. It was an amicable split, and here's the custody agreement: the Beta database is for testing, and the Production database is for publishing.
* Removing Readers From Private Journals: This one is not strictly related to the install, since we were seeing problems with it prior to install -- removing individual readers from Private Journals doesn't seem to be working at this time. "Remove All" readers, as well adding readers, still works.
The team is working on all these issues.
Now, here's what the R10 install got us:
- Basic Comment Pagination: When viewing an entry, the first 5 comments will show. The rest will display after you hit "show all comments." Again, this is primarily to prevent high-traffic entries with lots of comments from crashing Journals.
- Tagging in Production: Tagging, which had been in beta since, oh, April, is finally live. You can read my explanation from back then, which still holds up pretty well, though I'll need to do a new entry explaining how you can use it.
- Public Journals List Pages for INTL: International (non-US) Journalers now have public list pages -- for example, if "OhCanadaOurTrueandNativeLandEh" were a real Journaler, going to:
journals.aol.ca/OhCanadaOurTrueandNativeLandEh
would show me all of his or her's available Journals (public Journals and private Journals of which I was an allowed reader) - Friendly Entry URLs for INTL: Non-US Journalers also have the friendlier (though longer) URLs, which incorporate the date of the entry and the title of the entry
- HTML (Including Images) in Alerts: Implemented by accident, this is now supported as a feature, so you will be able to see images and formatted HTML text in Alerts (subject to previous character limits)
Please let me and Stephanie know if you run into additional problems. Thanks -- Joe
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I haven't read any other comments on the issue I'm having, but the same thing happened with the previous update. My Favorite Sites, and last 10 entries, both on my right sidebar are messed up. Part of the favorites sites is missing and the 10 previous entries seem to all run together as one link. HELP!!!!!!!!!
Mandy ~ http://journals.aol.com/mmartinez07/UnhappilyEverAfter/ -
When is Shared Blogging due?
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Bea,
I think what Joe has been saying is: in the past, entries made in the BETA version of your journal were automatically duplicated in the non-BETA version of your journal. You want people visiting your journal to come to the non-BETA version, so that should be the links you spread around. In the future, entries made in the BETA version of the journal will not be automatically duplicated in the non-BETA version of your journal. So, use the BETA version if you want to play with new features that Joe and Stephanie announce are available there, but go back to the non-BETA journal to post entries you want everyone to see, and only post links to the non-BETA version when you invite people to come read. Does that make any sense to you? If not e-mail or IM me and I'll try and go into more detail.
-Paul
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Well, for the past month or so I've been making entries in the beta version because you or someone asked us to do that so whoever works on these things could work out the kinks... and now you are saying don't make entries on beta? Okay, no beta journal entries. I've been posting links everywhere to my beta journal, but you are saying use the journal address without the beta, I think that is what you are saying. The entry I made after Dec 1 is not on the beta version. So, should I think you are saying: don't use beta for regular posting of entries because it has split, and beta is for testing only. And everything I've done through Dec 1 will remain on beta, but anything I did after Dec 1 is gone. But my non-beta journal is still okay. Okay, I think I got it. thanks for the news. I was wondering what happened when I went to my journal today and found an entire entry missing. bea
http://journals.aol.com/bgilmore725/Wanderer/
12/20/06 12:02 PM
You may be having Web browser problems -- alternately, I see you paste a lot of backgrounds and formatted HTML/CSS into your entries -- something you pasted in one of your recent entries may be causing your page to display funny (though since I don't know what your page normally looks like, I can't tell what that would be.)
Thanks -- Joe (posted & mailed)