new create entries beta

[denise]

We had the old "new JS on journals" beta reporting entry as the topmost entry in this comm, which was causing some confusion! So, a fresh post for people to report problems they're having with the new Create Entries beta.

Things not yet implemented:

* a WYSIWYG/rich text editor to allow people to post formatted entries

* the ability to save draft entries, both so you can deliberately postpone entries for posting later and so that an unexpected browser crash or problem during the posting process won't cause you to lose work

* admin editing of community entries

* the "don't autoformat" checkbox (we can't quite figure out which pane to stick it in!)

Things that will be documented once it comes out of beta, but some people have missed:

* if you don't like the placement of panels or don't want to see certain panels, you can customize the placement and which panels appear by using the " Settings" link in the main toolbar at the beginning of the form.

If you have anything else to report, please let us know here!

Comments

[denise]

Hmmm, that is weird. Does it still happen if you use the upper right hand collapse button in the Tags pane and then uncollapse it?

[silverr]

Yeah, I tried that too.

I tried Ctrl-F5 refresh as well, and also exiting the browser completely, but neither of those restore it.

I'm assuming that it's a FFox browser cache type thing, because if I log into the "silverr" account with either Chrome or Opera (which would be first access of that page for those browsers) my suppressed modules carry over, but I don't see the issue with the shrunken tag area:

https://i.imgur.com/ow1zKMM.png

[denise]

Yeah, that's deeply weird. Have you tried clearing browser cache? If that doesn't work, try restarting with extensions disabled.

[silverr]

1. Cleared all data for all sites containing "dreamwidth" -- no effect.

2a. Turned off all 4 extensions. Did not change Plugins settings.
https://i.imgur.com/Qyt9nTH.png
https://i.imgur.com/rVDy5iq.png


2B. Exited then restarted FFox. Problem persists.

https://i.imgur.com/F1RGHJB.png

[denise]

...huh, I am deeply confused at what could POSSIBLY causing this that wouldn't respond to one of those. 

One last thing: try disabling the panel in the settings, hard refresh, then re-enable it?

[silverr]

... by 'hard refresh' do you mean Ctrl-F5, or ...?

[denise]

Yeah, sorry!

[silverr]

np, that's waht I thought it meant but wanted to make sure

Also: Does DW cache data under any URL NOT containing the 'dreamm' string?

[denise]

dreamwidth* should get it (we embed some stuff via dreamwidth.net to prevent it from having access to dreamwidth.org cookies) 

[silverr]

alright... I did all what you suggested ( toggle Tags module off, both hard refresh and restart FFox) double checked the cache (went ahead and deleted ALL offline content just in case).

No good.

I had also had the "minimal animation" checkbox on, went ahead and deselected that too just in case it was doing something wacky. It wasn't.

One final thing I'll try is to log out of this account, quit FFox, log back in with a different account, exit, then restart and try logging into silverr again.

(Wouldn't have anything to do with trackers or location services, would it? I generally block those on principle.)

[denise]

Nope, we don't use location services and the only thing that might come anywhere near what a blocking script would consider a tracker is our use of Google Analytics (for browser use data and the like) -- everything works fine with it blocked and in fact we recommend in our privacy policy that people should block it if they aren't comfortable with it!

I've tried to reproduce this on my end and I can't, so I'm extra stumped.

[silverr]

... aaand having done all the above (logging out of S, logging in as not-S, restart computer, log out of not-S, log back into S... problem is still there.

I'll try one last thing -- opt out of and then back into beta - but if that doesn't work either, I'll just use a different browser for now.

[denise]

I'll see if anybody else can reproduce this, too.

[silverr]

... and now, inexplicably, it's back to normal!

(I'm not at all sure what I did to jostle it into behaving, though I've been resizing / maximizing the browser window itself several times.

UPDATE: Okay, get this:

Screen shot of browser window maximixed/full screen:
https://i.imgur.com/SyiGjP3.png

screen shot of when I hit the "Restore" button (between the close box and the Minimize):
https://i.imgur.com/wdnkUel.png

Note how in the second picture the Tabs module has stretched to fill the window width? Is that weird or what?

... and if I keep clicking that button to toggle between the modes, the Tabs module shrinks when I'm full screen, and stretches out when I'm not!