Site status report


We knew that with any major switch of the software like this, that there would be issues. Especially when we kept it secret and didn’t let you all test first!

I know there have been many people asking questions and making suggestions.  Be aware that I’ve seen them all, and have been paying attention, even if I haven’t had a chance to reply to each one personally.

To answer many questions at once though, here is a summary of the development status:

So here are the highlights of what got done today: Signatures are back, and are editable in your profile edit page.  The comment moderation issue should be fixed.  The off time zones should be fixed for future posts and comments. The problem with two different posts for each post should be gone. Tracker is back.

Here’s a sampling of what’s still to be done: The recommended diaries system will be given a good once-over later.  Everyone needs to be able to edit diaries again.  Your Profile display page should again show your recent comments and the number of replies to them.  Lots of little style issues are pending.

Feel free to use this as a thread for all site issues, complaints, and especially cheers.



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Thanks Neil

Christine (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 5:07AM EST (link)

Already 100 times better than RS3.0. Thanks to everyone who worked on this for their efforts.

The primary process is FLAWED. Two states should not decide our candidate.

“I would be a poor Commander in Chief”
– Barack Obama, July 3 2008

 

Another glitch

seattle_ite Friday, December 5th at 8:13AM EST (link)

I had tried to post a comment to a diary yesterday, and my comment and the diary just disappeared.

Not sure I care for the new format.

That was me

Erick Erickson (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 9:37AM EST (link)

There was a linking issue with the diary.

Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?

 
 

Logging in this morning

Mark Malcolm (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 9:14AM EST (link)

I just tried to log in and got Neil’s information after entering my user name and password. Then, after browsing the site a little, it reverted to my login data. Very odd. Thought I’d pass that on.

I may not agree with what you say but I’ll defend your right to say it to the very death.

 

Great Job Neil....

Attack Mode (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 9:17AM EST (link)

And thanks for importing in the sig lines….

When you say the tracker is back, what tracker are you referring to and where can I find it.

Thanks in advance and answer at your leisure.

YOU ROCK!!!!

“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger

“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.

The tracker

Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 10:03AM EST (link)

As in http://wordpress.redstate.com/tracker/

As in the recent posts link in the upper left, same as in RS 3 :-)

RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
Read the RedState Posting Rules

Unlikely Voter: Poll Analysis, Election Projection.

“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder

Sweeet.....Thanks Neil...n/t

Attack Mode (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 10:14AM EST (link)

n/t

“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger

“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.

 
 
 

the profile page has nothing on it.

Jim Tomasik (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 9:35AM EST (link)

can’t fix password.

You can only get to the change

Achance (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 9:40AM EST (link)

profile button from the log in. Once logged in, you can’t do anything with it. Or, at least that’s the way it worked for me.

In Vino Veritas

 

Sure you can

Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 9:53AM EST (link)

Go to http://wordpress.redstate.com/(your-diary)/wp-admin/profile.php

I’ll try to add a profile-edit link somewhere handy today. Say… on your profile page as linked in the header already, heh.

RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
Read the RedState Posting Rules

Unlikely Voter: Poll Analysis, Election Projection.

“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder

Thanks...

Jim Tomasik (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 10:20AM EST (link)

over all the site is greatly improved.

Jim Tomasik (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 10:22AM EST (link)

You’re doing a pretty spiffy job!

 
 
 

Cheers!

John E. (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 10:22AM EST (link)

4.0 is a vast improvement over 3.0. Cheers! I still miss Redstate.org though.

 

Duplicate comment message

John E. (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 10:27AM EST (link)

Seems whenever hit “Post Comment” I get a duplicate comment message. Is that happening to everybody?

 

signature

John E. (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 10:36AM EST (link)

Noticing that my signature says “None” I tried to edit it on my profile page. The update reports successful but the signature is not changed.

BTW, my second post did not get a duplicate message.

Congratulations you caught a bug!

Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 10:47AM EST (link)

Heh.

RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
Read the RedState Posting Rules

Unlikely Voter: Poll Analysis, Election Projection.

“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder

Will you still be putting up the links for img and link?

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 12:03PM EST (link)

being the novice I am with computers I really NEEDED those links and the video one to…..PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU :o n hands and knees:

I'll put it on the list (nt)

Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 12:44PM EST (link)

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Read the RedState Posting Rules

Unlikely Voter: Poll Analysis, Election Projection.

“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder

 

HTML help.

Diogenes314 (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 3:17PM EST (link)

This site might help.

Go down to links, Img etc, and click on the one you want. Click on the ‘try it yourself’ button, it will give you a window to experiment with.

 
 

'None' Sigs should be fixed now (nt)

Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 2:57PM EST (link)

……..

RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
Read the RedState Posting Rules

Unlikely Voter: Poll Analysis, Election Projection.

“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder

 
 
 

Performance is 1000% better

exitsfunnel Friday, December 5th at 11:40AM EST (link)

So far so good for me. Nice work.

-exits

 

Whew. Much faster.

kowalski (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 11:42AM EST (link)

Much faster. Much stronger. Much more reliable. Just like the Six Million Dollar Man.

All the stuff I’ve seen so far fall into the category of: “Learning curve.” No complaints thusfar.

I love it

AceInTX (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 3:14PM EST (link)

nt

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in WashingtonFred Thompson
 
 

Odd glitch

Finrod (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 12:19PM EST (link)

My diary that got front-paged says ‘No comments’ but 5 comments appear in it. Freaky.

Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?

 

Thanks Neil (and others)

Darin_H (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 12:21PM EST (link)

At the minimum, we have reliability so far. Much smoother, much faster. I’m already happier than RS3. I know the bells and whistles will come.

Things I’d like to see:

1. NEW comments again
2. Wide screen format.
3. Darin promoted :)

A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls

Neil - Bug? Forgotten button?

Darin_H (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 1:27PM EST (link)

I don’t see a link to get older member diaries.

A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls

 
 

Thanks for the hard work Neil.

The_Gadfly (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 1:31PM EST (link)

Still looking for a preview button when posting replies.

And thanks for cleaning up the strangeness with the recommended diaries. Yesterday I was seeing posts from moons ago.

I didn't touch it actually (nt)

Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 1:38PM EST (link)

..

RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
Read the RedState Posting Rules

Unlikely Voter: Poll Analysis, Election Projection.

“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder

 
 

Nice,

Wayne (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 1:37PM EST (link)

is there any way to change a password? And I really liked the links, bold etc in the previous version, but I can get used to the alphabet soup on the bottom of this box.

“Hell, these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal, and took Iwo Jima, Baghdad ain’t s–t”. Maj. Gen. John F. Kelly, USMC, Deputy CG, First MEF

 

Uh...Neil...here's a new clitch...

AceInTX (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 3:08PM EST (link)

If you post nt in the comment box one post and then do it in another post, (I think even if it’s in a differnt thread… you get a message that you’ve already said it.

it doesn’t seem yo affect the title of the comment just the comment box

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in WashingtonFred Thompson

Kowalski...

AceInTX (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 3:11PM EST (link)

I’m assuming if you type the identical comment in more than on post…you will get the “you’ve already said this error. which likely isn’t a big deal…

maybe you could plug in an exception in the rule for NT, nt, or any other varient of NT since that is such an accepted practice at RS?

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in WashingtonFred Thompson

There should always be an exception to the rules for NT... ;-)

NightTwister (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 3:17PM EST (link)

-nt-

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

 
 
 

Where'd it go?

Norm Leahy (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 4:32PM EST (link)

I re-entered the information for my Virginia diary, but nothing I’ve written will show on the Virginia page. Re-enter bio information is gone too.

Ah, progress…

 

What I'd like for XMAS Neil...

AceInTX (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 4:40PM EST (link)

Can you add an option to mark comments as read with this and minimize the comments you’ve checked as read so you don’t have to continuously scroll comments you’ve already read to fin new ones?

Please tell Santa I’ve been a good boy…well…for the most part

:>)

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in WashingtonFred Thompson
 

Hey Neil...I have one request when you have time...

Attack Mode (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 6:30PM EST (link)

With us going back to html formatting in the comments can we get the post from the 2.0 archive on the unofficial guide to RedState put as a link in the header.

Also I don’t even think it got ported over and the link to the 2.0 archive is non worky now.

This would be really helpful. Thanks. And as usual great job on everything…speed and functionality all at the same time…wonderful!!!

“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger

“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.

It's still in my sig

Bill S (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 6:59PM EST (link)

See

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“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

But...

Bill S (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 7:00PM EST (link)

it needs updating for RS 4. Specifically, I need to take out the references to Markdown. There’s probably a couple other things, like how to change your password from the bizarro one that the site assigns.

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

bs...there is also a problem with the links inside the diary

Attack Mode (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 7:20PM EST (link)

When I clicked on them they went to page not found and went to this address:

http://wordpress.redstate.com/blogs/neil_stevens/2007/aug/12/html_help_central/

but if you replace “wordpress”with “archive” it works.

http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/neil_stevens/2007/aug/12/html_help_central/

It would be nice though to have it just linked up on the top bar of RedState that way if I ever lose my bookmark I won’t have to find a comment from you in order to get back to it..not that I don’t love reading your comments….;^)

“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger

“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.

also bs...

Attack Mode (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 7:24PM EST (link)

once you get to that link the same thing happens to the links within that diary…..I think this has to do with the DNS resolution…changing it from www.redstate.com /whatever to http://wordpress.redstate.com/whatever.

“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger

“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.

Thanks...I'll take a look at it

Bill S (Diary) Saturday, December 6th at 12:22AM EST (link)

and will make sure all the links are fixed.

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

 
 
 
 
 
 

It's working pretty fast Neil, good job

kyle8 (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 6:35PM EST (link)

Cause I am usually a big complainer, so when I see a good job, I call it.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

 

new Diary showed up in Member Diaries, but then went bye-bye

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 9:43PM EST (link)

intermittently showing up on Refreshes of Front-Page to get/see changes

Diary is Iraqis get SOFA, is TV next?

Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)

mine went bye bye too

Doc Holliday (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 9:48PM EST (link)

I have come to expect the unexpected :(

Molon Labe!

well give us the link...

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 9:53PM EST (link)

… so we can go visit

Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)

ok here he is

Doc Holliday (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 10:03PM EST (link)

or she if you like http://wordpress.redstate.com/doc_holliday/2008/12/05/finally-federalism-wins-one/

Molon Labe!

found it via your profile

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 10:07PM EST (link)

and already reco’d (gotta select the blog from the profile page to get only that blog in order to reco)

Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)

 

now... how do we divide up text for Read More function to work?

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 10:12PM EST (link)

I saw a “Preivew text” (or was it Promote) box… is that now the Upper (before fold) portion and the Main text area the Below/beyond (Read More fold) portion????

I kinda kept my Diary shorter… I hate Diaries that take up too much space if/when on the Front Page with no Fold (Read More)…

Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)

 
 
 
 
 

Nice I like Wordpress

Michael DeWeese (Diary) Friday, December 5th at 11:32PM EST (link)

I had a password reset issue tryong to login, but after that, it’s fine. I like the WordPress blog software. We can start diaries and save them as works in progress until we get them all the way finished.
Thanks