Archive of Our Own ^beta

Welcome to Release 0.7.2.1 and Release 0.7.2.2 (deployed five hours later) and *coughs* Release 0.7.2.3 (deployed a day later again) and Release 0.7.2.4 (and again) or Revision 1980 1985 1995 2001, up from 1957. This is a bug-fixing release and as such is mostly composed of minor changes.

Our next deploy will be a couple of fixes we're working on right now to resolve issues with the 'Post New' form loading slowly and possibly a fix for the tags cloud. Some time next year!

Any critical fixes we need for Yuletide coming through in a trickle.

Known Issues

See Known Issues page

Release Details

Fixed in R1980:

• Fixed mousing to "confirm password" field problem during account creation
• Fixed character limit for FAQ and re-factored into sections
• Fixed problem with fandoms not showing up in 'fandoms' page
• Fixed editing works in Challenge bug
• Fixes to gift recipients code
• Temporarily suppressing printing 'most-used' tags on users to prevent giving away Yuletide Authors (real fix incoming)

Fixed in R1985:

• Post New form no longer pre-loads all tags in database (performance improvement)
• Collection tag cloud now only show canonical freeform tags, sorted alphabetically, and includes tags from subcollections/challenges

Fixed in R1995:

• tweak to text of Beta invitation email
• caching for the collection fandom index
• back end tags fix for multimedia fandoms (endless loops of DOOM)

Fixed in R2001:

• problem with duplicate tags
• color of 'choose not to' warning icon (hey, it was there!)
• bug with drafts showing up in gift list of the recipient

Welcome to Release 0.7.2. Revision 1957, up from 1789. This is the big Yuletide release and very likely our last significant release of 2009!

A special thank you to our testers for checking over a vast number of changes in a very, very limited amount of time. They did a ton of work to help get the collections code finished and make this year's Yuletide possible. <3

Highlights

• Collections and Challenges! This is the big new shiny toy, and it will be getting quite a workout with the Yuletide challenge in the coming week! For more information, check out the Collections section of our FAQ (more info coming soon!).
• Warnings have been revised a bit based on user feedback and cross-committee discussion. For a detailed explanation of the changes, please see our latest post on warnings.
• The fandoms pages are currently undergoing a redesign. What you'll see now is a very basic version, but it should load quite a bit faster than what we had previously, and the work counts should be more accurate. You'll also be able to browse collections by fandom - it's also very basic, but we wanted to get it in there!
• Finally, we made some changes to tags that we're very excited about, allowing them to be longer and contain a wider variety of letters from different languages, and we've done a lot of work to improve the accessibility and cross-browser compatibility of various pages on the site, which is something we'll continue working on in the new year.

Known Issues

Please see our Known Issues page.

Next projects

First, we make sure everything goes well with the Yuletide challenge. Then, we take a nap. Then, we start attacking our list of projects for 2010. \o/

Release details

Bugs Fixed

• The header and main navigation should now at least be visible and functional in IE 6. It's not a browser we plan to support fully, but we hope to make things somewhat usable for people who are stuck with it.
• In IE 7: multiple improvements to the homepage, the links to comment on or bookmark a work, the edit profile page, the comment form, tag links, and the new user page.
• Other front-end fixes to the homepage, the profile page, the edit work page, the page to edit multiple works, user pages, the support form, the reading history page, and, of course, the collections pages. (Go, go, front-end coders!)
• The character limit on tags has been raised to 100, making it much easier to (among other things) list threesome pairings.
• Tags can now contain a much wider variety of characters, including international unicode characters: letters with accents and umlauts, non-Western alphabets, etc.
• Fixed the very annoying bug with filters not accurately reflecting edits made to a work's tags, which caused works to show up in the wrong places when browsing. (Note: once we're sure this is fixed going forward, we'll be able to shuffle all your works back to where they belong, but that will happen in the next release.)
• When you post a new work with an invalid tag, the valid tags should still be there when the form reloads.
• When you go to the languages page, you should no longer be able to get all works in English at once.
• You should never get more than 1,000 works at once, on the main works page or on any other page. The upside is that the pages won't take an age and a half to load anymore.
• When you post a work with a pairing and an unofficial/non-canonical name for one of the characters in that pairing, they should now be collapsed the way other cast tags are if the wranglers have set up the relationships behind the scenes.
• Bookmarks on user and pseud pages should be listed in the order in which they were created, not the order in which they were edited.
• The links to mark comments on your works as spam/not spam should be working properly now.
• The admin backend is now about a thousand times less hideously ugly than it was before. (Poor admins.)

Other New Features

• Added a hit counter! If you go to your preferences, you'll see that you can control both whether other people can see hit counters on your works and whether you can see them on your works when you're logged in.
• Added a link to our Known Issues page in the footer of each page.
• Added special stylesheets for Internet Explorer, which should be a big help going forward.

Welcome to Release 0.7.1.2. Revision 1789, up from 1762. This is a fairly small release, with a few bugfixes and the first round of code for Collections and Challenges \0/

Highlights

Collections and Challenges! This release includes the first set of code which will be needed for Collections. Most of the changes are not visible ones: we've put in some of the behind-the-scenes code which will be necessary for importing from other Archives (we'll be using this to rescue stories of Yuletide past from the decaying Yuletide site, all being well).

Known Issues

Please see our Known Issues page.

Next projects

We're focusing on Collections and Challenges from now up until Christmas, in order to be sure that everything is tickety-boo for Yuletide. We're also looking to make some improvements to how the site displays in IE7.

Release details

Bugs

Fix for "Post Comment" not actually posting comment on first click

Fix for problem with cast tags with non-canonical characters in pairing - this should fix the problem which was causing some people to get 500 errors on their profile pages.

Fix for wonky display on some tag pages

Fix for a problem with sorting filtered results

Fix for an error which occurred when filtering bookmarks by tag

New things

Added feature: importing works for other users (not available for use yet)

Added feature: redirect to imported stories from their original URLs

Added feature: allow users to opt out of notifications of imported stories, and to opt out of having stories uploaded in the future.

Changes

Removed old code for 'Communities' (now replaced by 'Collections')

Updated warnings help popup to make it a bit clearer

Increased number of works which can be imported at once.

Code for import/story parser refactored and improved

Made some edits to help popups on the works form.

Welcome to Release 0.7.1.1, Revision 1762, up from 1697. This is a bug-fixing release and as such is mostly composed of minor changes.

Our next deploy will probably be at some random time in the near future (where the future is measured in days or possibly a week) and will contain groundwork code for Collections and Challenges \o/

Highlights

• Em-dash bug entirely fixed for "post new," and largely fixed in the importer.
• Dreamwidth import has been fixed.
• New works no longer default to "Chapter 1/?"
• When editing works, metadata no longer randomly disappears.
• Password resetting now works properly.

Known Issues

See Known Issues page

Next Projects

• Ongoing work on Collections & Challenges (Yuletide pilot)
• Ongoing work on optimising for IE7
• Performance - fast page loading, fast searching etc.

Release Details

Bugs

• Fix for Dreamwidth importing
• Fix for stories getting cut off at em dashes (may not work for all imported stories - encoding issues, sigh - but should work for everything pasted into the form)
• Fix for chapter and tag information not being properly displayed on preview and/or not being discarded when you cancel your edits
• Fix for story backdating and changing the publication date of a story
• Fix for font size in center tags
• Fix for inability to reassign invitations
• Fix for general wonkiness of work form in Chrome and Safari
• Fix for broken tag links involving slashes, periods and/or ampersands
• Fix for stories being imported without dates
• Fix for need to click button twice to post a comment
• Fix for first login and password reset reminders not going away
• Improved toggling of pretty much everything on the work form, including the notes tickyboxes
• Better handling of invalid tag errors
• Some IE7 fixes: better display of work headers and tag underlines
• Fix for difficulties creating an account using OpenID
• Fix for some email addresses being improperly registered in the queue

New Things

• Added automatic responses when you submit a support request
• Some love for admins: making it easier to track down lost invitations
• Some love for tag wranglers: increased readability on various pages, better clearing out of zombie tags that aren't attached to anything
• A link to the "reorder series" page has been added to "edit series."
• Added ability to turn the first login page on and off in Preferences
• Added some clarification about warnings and tags to first login

Changes

• We now include filter items that only apply to one story
• Changed the "Pairings is Invalid" error message to provide clearer information
• Some Bookmarks refinements: the form now defaults to your default pseud, and the "bookmark external work" form has been prettied up some.
• Clarified how to enter work headers while importing

Welcome to Revision 1692, up from 1585. This is a small release and mostly contains the Invitations code, a lot of translatability, IE7 optimising and various fixes.

Our next deploy will probably be in two weeks and contain groundwork code for Collections and Challenges.

Highlights

• We have a new front page! Again! This should look better on small screens and with variable font sizes.
• Invitations code is in - it will continue to be polished so when we launch Open Beta feedback is welcomed.
• First Login help page created

Known Issues

See Known Issues page

Next Projects

• Open Beta
• Ongoing work on Collections & Challenges (Yuletide pilot)
• Ongoing work on optimising for IE7
• Performance - fast page loading, fast searching etc.

Release Details

Bugs

• Fixed some issues with the importer
• Fixed autocomplete drop downs on Post Work form
• Fixed tag links on View All Series page
• Fixed inability to display nested lists in post work and news posts
• Fixed error messages and form breaking for Title and Location fields in Edit Profile
• Fixed problem with not seeing changes in Preview when editing a chapter
• Fixed problem with searching then sorting by Author and Title
• Fixed synonyms showing up on 'fandoms' page
• Fixed problem with validation while creating an account using OpenID

New Things

• Added Invitations code
• Added special help for new users on first login \o/
• Added more translation strings - this is not visible to users but is a significant piece of work.
• Added 'back to the top' link for works and chapters
• Added 'Languages/Translation' option to Support form
• Added 'help' file to search filters
• Added 'Languages' link to Site Map

Changes

• Changed display of filters for Category and Rating to radio buttons - they revert to tickyboxes after use (click 'Filter Works') to allow you to unselect it.
• Changed comment text entry box to resize with page
• Changed success message on 'forgot password' page to be more meaningful
• Changed text on Support page to be more meaningful
• Changed limit on Notes field to 5,000 characters
• Changed browser title bar to show meaningful information while viewing chapters
• Changed allowed html lists - they should be up to date now
• More IE7 optimising :)

Welcome to Revision 1585, up from 1398. Yes that's right, 187 changes! This represents a huge amount of work by the entire AD&T team; we've designed, coded, tested, deployed and been very, very organised at each other to get here and I'm so proud of us.

Our next deploy will probably be in three weeks, this will be the necessary code to launch Open Beta.

I'll be making my weekly updates posts to the AO3 itself in the future, but will continue to post links on my Dreamwidth.

Highlights

• Admin posting - we can now post Release Notes direct to the Archive of Our Own plus we have a FAQ , and a Known Issues page!
• Bookmarks have been rebuilt - they now show work information (author's summary, tags, icons), they aggregate (don't show duplicates) and they show a lot of information! We plan to develop cut down views - Full/Medium/Light? but we want to know what you want to see in these views before we do this.
• Import from URL has been rebuilt - you can now import ten works at a time or up to 200 chapters of a single work.*coughs* There are some bugs with this!
• Notes - these can now be at the beginning and at the end of a work
• Post work - choosing a Category is now optional, that means you don't have to specify Gen, F/F, M/F, M/M, Other etc.
• Site Map - we have one!

Known Issues

See separate post :)

Next Projects

• Open Beta
• Ongoing work on Collections & Challenges (Yuletide pilot)
• Ongoing work on optimising for IE7
• Performance - fast page loading, fast searching etc.

Release Details

Bugs

• Fixed problem with Bookmarking external works for URLs ending in forward slashes
• Fixed User emails should be unique regardless of case
• Fixed User logins should be unique regardless of case
• Fixed User should always have a default pseud
• Fixed User shouldn't be able to create more than one pseud with same name
• Fixed Weird character on people page
• Fixed Series links should be shown at end of work as well as start
• Fixed Series show page should show total word count for series
• Fixed Edit link on series blurb
• Fixed Series page should load even if it only contains a draft
• Fixed Delete series if all works in it are deleted
• Fixed Authors should be restored to series where they were previously missing; creating a new series by editing a posted work should no longer result in an authorless series
• Fixed Show warnings should work for series, bookmarks on works and series, and still work on works (both blurb and show pages)
• Fixed Sanitize should no longer strip links

New Things

• Added work info to bookmarks (author's summary, tags, icons)
• Added ability to view all bookmarks on single work, with work blurb at top and stripped down user bookmarks below
• Added bookmark aggregation on main bookmarks page and tag bookmarks page (ie should show only most recent visible bookmark for single work/series/external work). User and pseud bookmark pages should show all bookmarks on a single work.
• Added ability to click a tag on bookmarks page to take you to all bookmarks with that tag, plus all bookmarks on works with that tag
• Added 'Save' link on bookmark blurb, should work for bookmarks on works, series and external works
• Added ability to mark a bookmark as a rec, and filter bookmarks to view recs only
• Added ability to bookmark a Series
• Added ability to create/edit multiple bookmarks on a single work
• Added option to transfer bookmarks to default pseud or delete them when deleting a pseud
• Added Javascript option to show most recent bookmarks
• Added character counters on external work bookmark form
• Added limit and validation for author name to the external work model, and counter to the form.
• Added ability to edit multiple works when importing
• Added ability to import works with multiple chapters and multiple works at once
• Added character counters on chapter form
• Added link to top (works and chapters)
• Added alternate instructions for chapter re-ordering with Javascript off
• Added Notes at end of works and chapters
• Added Admin 'manage user' page to handle unvalidated accounts, warn, temporarily suspend and permanently suspend user (we could do most of this, it's prettier now)
• Added Admin ability to post FAQ, Known Issues, updates
• Added explanatory note on signup form re case of usernames
• Added additional links to works, bookmarks and series on dashboard
• Added minimal html allowed for pseud description
• Added Comments should be transferred to default pseud if pseud is deleted, anonymised if user is deleted
• Added Explanatory text on comments form
• Added text to Series, should say 'author' or 'authors' depending on number
• Added should be able to set preference to hide freeform tags, applies to works index and show pages
• Added link to preferences on Reading History page
• Added explanatory text if search would return over 1000 results
• Added integration with 16bugs for Support and Report Abuse forms
• Added Site map
• Added new homepage

Changes

• Changed main bookmarks page to only show bookmarks created in the past month
• Changed 'Recs' in main navigation to 'bookmarks', including on 404 and 500 error pages
• Changed Importer - Story parser should download chaptered stories from ff.net; download stories from lj from behind the adult-concepts warning; preserve original story posting dates; prevent work from being uploaded multiple times
• Changed backdating: if a chapter is deleted, the work's 'revised at' date should show the most recent date among the remaining chapters.
• Changed label on story field on work and chapter forms
• Changed default rating, warnings and order on work form
• Changed work notes and summary so they only appear at top of work when viewing chapter by chapter
• Changed Category field to optional (Gen, F/F, F/M etc.)
• Changed 'Warnings' label (on work blurb, among other places) to have a link to relevant section of ToS faq
• Changed References to 'letters' to 'characters' on work and chapter forms
• Changed Admin ability to hide and delete bookmarks (links on bookmarks index page) and external works (also bookmarks index page)
• Changed Admin 'find user' page to increase usability
• Changed Default pseud should be loaded by default for a comment
• Changed footer links
• Changed display of ambiguous warnings text (for example author has selected 'None of these warnings apply', this should be displayed as 'No Primary Warnings Apply'
• Changed how appear unwrangled fandoms on media page
• Changed Reading history formatting
• Changed Edit pseud and show pseud styling
• MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF INTERNET EXPLORER 7 OPTIMISING \O/