The Wounded Land

In which our Hero shakes the dust off his old own self to see if the new version of his old chair still fits.

After the initial shock at the possibility that an old loss might be undone, I’ve found myself wondering if it’s possible to open this door without feeling the strain of those same old wounds. I mean, “previous entry” instantly flips us back to 2014 and the end of days, Gentle Reader, and how does that transition not get mentioned at the very least?

On the
other hand, I have great affection for what this place once was, and I have curiousity about what it might become. Not what it was, certainly, that’s unachievable. But what it could be… that’s interesting.

There’s only one way to hurt a man who’s lost everything. Give him back something broken — Stephen R Donaldson.

I understand that not all my issues may matter to the management. Issues so far.

• ###Backups
• Where’s the export
  option?
• Please don’t expect me as a user here without a working export capability that includes notes and entry metadata like chapter membership.
• ###Editor:
• The editor hijacks my right click context menu, which has lost me the use of the spell checker.
• The list style is forcing my text to bold. Appears to happen in the editor only
• The shift-enter should create a break tag, but in the block quote it appears to create a new instance of the tag
• The
  space after the block quote appears to be inconsistent. Check the styles.
• ###Entries:
• Outlined list in the editor lost all structure on output. If it’s not supported, the editor should not allow it.
• The “publish date” appears to default to the opening of the editor page, not the time I clicked save. The “published on” date should probably default to blank rather than being populated on page creation.
• ###Permissions:
• The comments/visibility filter options
  include “Public/Private/Friend” It would be good for community building to have a “OpenDiary Members” option. Public to people who have logged in, don’t have to be my friend.
• As I recall, this was an option on the old site
• Chapters don’t have permissions
• There’s no bulk permission manager.
• For returning diarists, this will be an issue since content that was considered buried and lost is suddenly in the light again.
• ###Chapters
• Chapters appear to be populated (I can filter by them from the diary page) but the chapter manager shows zero entries under each chapter
• Chapters also used to be a fast way to control permissions on a swath of entries. That seems to be no longer available