Testing updates

A few updates for everybody as you are testing, please read below:

1) Some of you (Jubey, Tux, and Maui Jim, that I’ve seen) have not set your diaries to public or friends only – your diary privacy is still set to private, so nobody can see your entries. There is a bug that is allowing these private diaries to post entries on the front page, which we are fixing – but if you want other users to see your entries, you need to change your diary privacy under Profile (under the main menu) and then Settings.

2) Many of you are noticing slowness when posting entries and notes – this is because we are running an import to bring the rest of the diaries from the old site into the new databases, and this is running 24/7 right now to update the data. We are adding thousands of entries and notes to the site every hour, and this is very laborious for the servers.

When we started testing, we had already migrated the diaries for this testing group, but we are currently bringing the rest of the data over. This process may take another couple weeks, as there are millions of notes an more than a million entries. When this import is done, the site will run at proper speed – but in the meantime, sorry for the inconvenience of slower posting.

3) We’ve had a number of bugs reported already (thanks!) which are ticketed in our system and being worked on. I will let you know here as those are fixed. Some of these are:

• Private diaries are still showing entries on the front page (see above)
• Clicking the notification icon when on an entry shows the mute user dialog
• The timestamp when you post an entry should be when you save the entry, not when you start writing
• When typing a new note, the cursor appears in the “Enter” text in the note box
• Previous/Next entry links don’t work right when there are more than one entry in a day
• Profile/Settings menu is messed up when clicking on Membership settings
• When replying to a reply, the note box appears above the reply instead of below
• A number of issues with the editor toolbar, including formatting of ordered lists, Shift+Enter not working, etc.
• Editor toolbar blocking right-click when editing

4) Due to the last two above, we are thinking about changing the entry editor – we originally liked the popup toolbar we have because it seemed pretty slick, but in practice it is causing some problems. We may switch this out for a more traditional toolbar in the near future.

5) We’ve also had some great suggestions on styling, navigation, and other changes – all of which will be considered for making the site easier to use.

6) If you haven’t tried using the site on your phone, please do – the site is fully mobile-responsive, so we would like to have people test it there as well (for those wondering, we are also developing a mobile app for Open Diary which will be released hopefully at or near the time of the public launch).

Thanks again so much for testing, it has been very helpful already!