Feedback wanted: new homepage

[momijizukamori]

Hey all! I just finished converting the index/homepage, both logged out and logged in, to Foundation/Template Toolkit. It's live on the canary server (see here for how to access that).

The changes aren't really big enough to warrant a full beta setting, but I wanted to get more more feedback on it before we merge it, and logged in users may be bypassing it, usually (I just have my reading list bookmarked, for instance).

Comments

[nataraj]

First comment on https://www.dreamwidth.org/beta : There is no explanation there, where I should go to see the result, and what kind of result I should expect. I do not use homepage, and even do not know where it is. Guess it is https://www.dreamwidth.org/ but not sure.

And what changes I should check?

What I should turn on to see changes? "Site-Wide Canary"?

[denise]

It's described in the link in the entry: opting into the "site-wide canary" cookie gives you access to the most recent version of the code, including things that we haven't fully tested yet across all browser/operating system/configurations that our users use. Using Canary may fix that bug that's been bothering you for ages a few weeks before the fix is shipped to the site as a whole, or it may mean things are broken in entertaining and inventive ways!

If you want to test the homepage conversion, go to Beta Features, enable "Site-Wide Canary", and then visit www.dreamwidth.org while logged in to your account. You can compare it to the old version by visiting www.dreamwidth.org (while logged in to your account) without setting the canary cookie first. If you don't want to keep using the version that may break without warning, go back to Beta Features and disable "Site-Wide Canary" after.