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

[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.