So many stranger things
Okay, well admittedly, DiaryMistress and I spent a significant part of the last three days re-binge-watching Stranger Things season 1, and then now-binge-watching season 2. I don’t understand the strategy of releasing an entire season at once – I know this is what Netflix viewers have come to expect – but I do feel like people would enjoy it more if it was stretched out over nine weeks.
Of course, we could exercise some self-control and watch one episode a week – but it just didn’t work out that way. Anyway, LOVED the second season, I think the characters all developed in really interesting ways, and a couple new ones added. DiaryMistress is convinced that the character of Billy (he of the fine fine mullet) is a sleeper evil dude – I tend to agree. So as not to post any spoilers, I will say no more.
A couple business things:
1) Circle suggestions
When we were putting the site together, we only created three Circles, for the sake of testing. If you haven’t been there yet, you can visit the Circles by clicking “Circles” in the main menu, or going here: https://www.opendiary.com/circles/
We’d like to add more (so that we could have some that people are interested in, and will post to) – but I didn’t just want to reinstate the full list from the old site. So, we are going to build on by adding to what we have, and that’s where you all come in.
If you have any suggestions for Circles to add – please post them in a comment below, or hit the Contact Support link at the bottom and let us know through there. Thanks!
2) New things coming
Two things that Engineering (I’m going to keep calling our engineers that, because Star Trek of course) is working on that you should be seeing soon on the site are an All Notes view and an improved editor toolbar.
The All Notes view will give you a list of all the Notes you’ve received, so you can go right there to see when people have replied to you. We will also be adding notifications (like the ones that appear now on the bell at the top) for when people reply to your notes – so you will see that when it happens.
The improved editor toolbar will appear fixed at the top of the entry editing box – you won’t have to right-click to make it appear, so it won’t block other spellcheckers that people are using. This is a little complicated, but should also be coming soon.
We already have a pretty long list of other enhancements we are adding and bugs we are fixing – thanks so much to all of you who have contributed! As always, if you have other suggestions, please hit the Contact Support link below and let us know there.
If I don’t post again before then, I hope everybody has a fun and spooky Halloween!
Maybe for Circles, a Book Club (or reviews). Or also movie and TV reviews. I’m always looking for good suggestions of what to watch or read next.
I think those are good ones to add, thanks!
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I’m repeating myself, but I fought the good fight (and lost) re: Stranger Things. I wanted to watch one a week for 9 weeks too. How many shows per season did Dick Van Dyck do per season? 30? 35? Ok, yeah – they had two sets, his house and the office, but come on… NINE shows is a season? I’m really in the wrong line of work!
So true, I mean – I’d happily stretch my viewing out over a longer period of time, if they gave us twice as many episodes.
@thediarymaster Re: your note. Oops. Thank you.
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I like to binge shows of Netflix, but only when I have someone to share it with. We’d start the season at 10am, order pizza around 3pm and usually end around 11pm. Make a day of it but not have to stay up too late. To be honest, I haven’t watched Stranger Things yet, but it’s on my must watch hit list. I’ll get to it eventually…
As for circles, I remember the ones with heavy traffic were Film (movies), Television and Politics. Those are the ones you have to add if you really want to see it tested. Politics was the most insane circle of them all, but I think this time around it will be a lot tamer than it used to be. Just a feeling… Cheers,
I don’t know how I feel about having a Politics circle this time around – we really are trying to build a place where people won’t be in conflict with each other all the time (like other social networks) and there is nothing more charged as a conversation topic than Politics, right now. Would love to hear what others think about that.
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Thank you for the update. Would like to see an LGBTQ circle. Could even be broken down by age or ally or specific identification if “sub-circles” would/could be utilized.
Yes for sure that will be an addition, thanks!
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Aloha…
As per usual… thanks for the update…!
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What’s the system doing when it’s busy not doing anything? When it’s not spinning it’s wheels pages refresh so fast I can barely tell there was an update. But other times I see a whole lot of nothing going on in multiple windows. Then they all update at once. Is somebody locking tables when they should be locking rows?
@sleepygene It’s more that there are multiple updates happening at once, because we are importing all of the old diary data for the other users (other than testers) – so there are updates happening across multiple tables and indexes when you are noticing slowness. This is something that should go away in the near future, and you should see performance like the first case (very fast).
I agree with you. @thediarymaster The front page refreshes soooo fast and automatically that you don’t get a chance to even click on anybody.
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@thediarymaster Circle suggestions: Fiction writing. Health and wellness. Diet. Humor. Child rearing. Rants. Memes. How to… (everything outside OD). How to navigate and write in OD. HTML help (if you allow that). Photography. Hobbies. “I learned about life from…” (a bit of explanation for this one. Flying magazine has a feature called, ” I learned about flying when” hi-lighting stories – usually close calls – that drive home lessons learned. I’m sure people have similar life experiences.
More later.
Thanks those are very good suggestions!
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For circles a cooking/food one would be fun. I also write a lot of music related entries so that could be fun.
Do we get notifications when there are notes on our entries?
You should be getting notifications when somebody leaves you a note, yes.
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She is well, she does have a diary, she hasn’t deactivated yet but I think she expects to soon.
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Circle Suggestion: Pets and Grief. I could benefit from both
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My husband and I binged watched Stranger Things too. Great show!! We are not quite done with season two yet but only because we have been busy. HAHA to the engineering reference.
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