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

[denise]

Ah, okay, I'm sorry for the assumption! If you can't copy and paste the address of the page you're on when you're getting the message like momijizukamori suggests, I'll try to think of a way to do some troubleshooting. Can you let me know what screenreader you use (name of the program plus version number) and what browser/OS?

[horse_spirit]

https://www.dreamwidth.org/entry/new
No problem, I appreciate you all’s help with this. I’m currently using an iPhone 13 Mini, running iOS 16.6. VoiceOver is the name of the iPhone’s screen reader. If I’ve left out anything else, please let me know.

[momijizukamori]

Okay, that's the new entry page, so the message you're getting makes sense! The question then is how you're getting to that page without having the beta turned on.

Do you use the update form on the main homepage (https://dreamwidth.org)? It used to go to the old update page if you clicked 'more options' but now goes to the new one - as we're very close to the new one being the update page for everyone, it didn't make sense to try to have two different versions of the homepage form that used each of the backends.

[horse_spirit]

Oh OK. Yeah, I usually use the ‘more options’ tab so that I can put moods and stuff in my posts. So I guess that is why I’m seeing this different page? Am I understanding you correctly?

[momijizukamori]

Augh I thought I had replied to this, and then discovered I hadn't. Apologies!

Yes, that'd be why you're getting the new page. You can continue getting the old one by going directly to https://www.dreamwidth.org/update but the new page is going to be the default for everyone in the next few months, hopefully.

[denise]

Okay, that's weird. I checked your account and you're not in the beta update page test, so you shouldn't be seeing that URL at all -- you should still be seeing https://www.dreamwidth.org/update instead. I'll poke at this and see if I can figure out what's going on.

If I need to, can I have permission to log into your account as you and see what exactly is happening in the process? I will use it only for trying to solve this for you and not anything else, and "no" is a perfectly okay answer -- there are a few things I could try that wouldn't involve actually logging in as you -- but it will probably be a lot easier than asking you ten thousand questions back and forth.

EDIT: ha, momijizukamori beat me to it! Yeah, let us know what workflow you're using to update first, I forgot to ask that part.

[horse_spirit]

Sure, you have my permission to log in as me, that’s no problem. I’m also experiencing a weird look on the official DW homepage…though LMK if it’d be easier to tackle one thing at a time. Also, would you please clarify what ‘workflow?’

[denise]

What steps you take in order to post an entry!