Some more updates
Sorry, not very imaginative title – but there are a couple important updates because our Engineers have been working hard!
- For those of you who have been suffering from the endless notifications coming from old notes on your diary (and it sounds like there were quite a few based on the respondents when I asked a couple entries back) – there is now a “Mark all as read” selection on the dropdown for your notifications. If you click that, it will clear all your notifications, and you will stop getting all the ones for your old notes.
- The sharing icons on entries have been updated, so now they will only show up/work on entries that are set to Public. Any entry that is Members Only, Friends Only, or Private will not have the icons for sharing to other social networks.
- There was a weird white box showing up (sometimes) when you tried to paste a link (like a YouTube video URL) into an entry you were writing – this was messing up the system in being able to show YouTube videos or valid links when they were pasted into entries. This has been fixed – if you want to add a video (or picture with a valid URL) you should be able to do it now simple by pasting the URL into your entry. Just be sure to add a space or an Enter after the link so the system will recognize it.
Also, a number of you are already using the Members Only option – that’s great, if you didn’t see my previous entry about it please go back and check it out. We will be taking the testing password off the front page of the site and opening the site up to the public in the very near future. So please, if you have been saving entries as Public while you were testing and you don’t want them to be Public – go back and change them to Members Only or Friends Only.
This means that very soon, new people will be able to join the community, which will be very exciting – thanks to all of you for the help you have given us testing the site to get to this point!
Thanks for bringing the site back and letting me be a tester. It’s been a real joy to be writing again.
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Aloha…
Thanks for the update…
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Love the updates, thank you so much! So excited to get more people back in the community.
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Can’t wait to see some of the new features you were talking about. Still some gaps, I couldn’t figure out how to add a friend without seeing that person’s entry on the front page
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Oh also please add a confirmation dialog to the “delete note” button. I accidentally nuked a note earlier.
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Is it possible for you to add the bulk entry manager feature before you go public? I have a ton of old entries that were always FO but that are of course visible now. I don’t mind while the community here is a small, private group, but will want to make a lot (not all, but a lot) of those entries FO again when the site is opened up. It’s a pain to do without a bulk manage option. Thanks! (And ta very much for the nifty notifications fix!)
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The site is looking great….nice features like the toggles from public, members, friends….looking forward to a search engine…hoping it can search by name and country
Question about the groups….can members create groups? Can’t remember if that was a feature last time…if not and you need suggestions how about one on gardening or small life style blocks
Is it possible that you have a dedicated section on the front page so we see your updates in one place?
imam enjoying being back
I meant the circles not groups
and i am enjoying being back…finger slippage
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Awesome updates. Thank you so much!
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Great job on the site! I think I know my way around now but would plead for the addition of a mass entry editor (what lawhussy said). I too have a ton of old entries I would like to edit and organize into chapters of some variety. Doing them one at a time isn’t going to happen. Thanks in advance!!
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great job!!!
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Thank you for explaining. I was wondering about the social network icons, wouldn’t want my entries getting tweeted or shared in facebook.
Great to have OD back.
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I was expecting the bulk editor to be done before going public, so that people could fix their posts before then. Fortunately I’d only made a few so I fixed them individually, but it’s a huge pain, especially when the site takes forever to save things.
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Thanks for the update. It’s great to be back. Are we going to be able to arrange the order of our chapters? That’s definitely my first suggestion since being back.
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Oh goodie, goodie, LOL. I can hardly wait ’til we go public!! Thank you and your staff, again, for re-opening a most beloved sight. I have to say, You all rock!! :*)
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I have been having a problem on mobile. When I click through email say when I have a note or something that page will load. However. I can’t navigate to any other pages from there. If I then try to type into my browser the url. Won’t load. Click back in through another email. Nope. Wait a full hour or so. Type in the url no problems.
I am on a Samsung device using chrome I’ve tried Wi-Fi and 4g. The laptop I’ve not tried.
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You know what would be a good idea? A help page telling everyone how to put photos or videos or do anything so you don’t have to keep telling everyone the same thing over and over again.
@sillysillysandee – yes! we are working on a help page to do that!
@thediarymaster – Awesome!
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you are very welcome
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Thanks for the updates, always!!
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Yea 🙂 So pleased to be back in Open Diary!! Thanks.
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Great update news!
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@thediarymaster. Good Morning! Quick question. On the text editor what does “pre-formatted” do for me? How would I use it?
@petersshadow ha, been doing some testing because I’m not 100% sure 🙂 I believe it’s to simulate using a “pre” tag in HTML, but will check into it more.
@thediarymaster ok, well I don’t know what a “pre” tag in HTML is, so I guess I’ll have to await the completion of your research. In the meantime, be well.
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My Bell keeps having a 1 with a dark blue circle around it, and it’s telling me wrong stuff, LOL. It’s no big deal, but, I hate to make you so many tickets, lol. ;*)
P.S. I just clicked on “Mark all as read,” and it went away. Sorry.
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