Site Update: January 20, 2012

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Last week, we posted the first site update of 2012, which brought in over 2,500 comments. In this update, you'll find all the feedback from those comments gathered into the Your Feedback section below, just after the Change Log, which will tell you about some brand new updates we just launched, as well as all the bugs fixed since the last update.

Trophy  Last week's most popular update: You can now put exclamation marks in deviation titles! - Added by $allixsenos 



Change Log


General


:bulletblue: What's New
  • "My Tagline" is no longer a required item when filling out your profile. - Added by $Nodren
  • Implemented support for "Free Premium Memberships Day." - Added by $Nodren
  • Added the ability to publish winners of the Design Battle T-Shirts contest as "for sale" in the deviantWEAR shop. - Added by #ArtBIT
  • Added a link to deviantART's Google+ Page on the footer. - Added by $helloandre
:bug: Bug Fixes
  • Group avatars now display correctly in the "journal portal" section of the footer. - Fixed by #ArtBIT
  • Llamas for everyone! An error has been resolved that caused the llama trade page to display completely blank for deviants who have not yet received a llama. - Fixed by $knightar
  • Journals are no longer restricted to a minimum width on the deviation page - Fixed by $kemayo
  • Fixed the command+enter keyboard shortcut on Macs in the "Send as Note" box on deviation pages. - Fixed by $helloandre
  • News article previews are now stripped of ugly HTML tags that sometimes displayed in the Message Center. - Fixed by $kemayo
  • The "Journal Comments" section on activity pages has been removed since journal comments are now displayed under the main "Comments" section. - Fixed by $samshull
  • Fixed the positioning of the "Remove Deviation From Group" button on deviation pages. The button was sometimes escaping its box! - Fixed by $samshull
  • Fixed a very rare journal migration failure which duplicated a single journal into several deviations. - Fixed by $sgrahamUK
  • Fixed a very short-lived issue with renaming collections. - Fixed by $Nodren
  • A very small number of deviants who were unable to delete an empty collections can now delete them. - Fixed by $Nodren
  • The "Discover" menu item used to be completely stuck on the "stick menu" and can now be removed. - Fixed by $knightar
  • A text mis-alignment was causing long lists of deviants to overlap in the "recipients" field of the "send note" form. - Fixed by $kemayo
Sta.sh


:bulletblue: What's New
  • On your Sta.sh, stacks and stashed items now have a completely new button layout - it's now much easier to get to Submit, Delete, Move; and you can now rename any item by clicking on its name. - Added by $adahacker
:bug: Bug Fixes
  • Fixed "previous" and "next" keyboard navigation while viewing items in Sta.sh. - Fixed by $aMoniker
  • If you try to give the same name to two Sta.sh stacks, the error message is now a bit more user-friendly. - Fixed by $aMoniker
  • Fixed drag-to-select that was broken after switching to a different Sta.sh page. - Fixed by $kouiskas
  • Fixed multiple with renaming items in Sta.sh, including errors while using apostrophes and double quotes, as well as an error that wouldn't allow deviants to click Sta.sh items after renaming a stack from within the stack's page. - Fixed by $kouiskas
  • Improved auto-saving on Sta.sh while making changes to an item. - Fixed by $kouiskas
  • In Chrome, we were forced to disable instant thumbnail generation when uploading a large file because of a bug in Chrome. - Fixed by $kouiskas
  • Fixed some visual issues with stacks, including shadows and thumbnail display. - Fixed by $kouiskas, $aMoniker
Sta.sh Writer


:bulletblue: What's New
  • Journals now always clickable Title links, even when they're not in groups - Added by $kemayo
  • Advanced Journal Skin makers can now use + > ~ [attr] :not() in their CSS skins! - Added by $loopstart
:bug: Bug Fixes
  • The "Journal History" module was displaying dates as 1970 when in the "browse" view on the Journal tab. - Fixed by $kemayo
  • The "This edit is minor" checkbox, for controlling whether an edit is sent out to all your watchers, sometimes doesn't appear when editing a Writer deviation. - Fixed by $inazar
  • Some category pickers allowed deviants to submit to protected categories, including the "deviantART Inc" category. - Fixed by $kemayo
  • After submitting a deviation through Sta.sh Writer, pressing the "back" button no longer causes weird behavior. - Fixed by $Alisey
  • You can no longer remove the category from a published deviation. - Fixed by $kemayo
  • Restored the ability to submit a journal entry to a group through the inline editor after it had already been published. - Fixed by $kemayo
  • In Writer, "journal extras" was showing up even when no skin is selected. This has been removed. - Fixed by $inazar
  • It is no longer possible to accidentally select text outside of the Writer editing area. - Fixed by $kemayo
  • Some old journals were able to break outside of their boxes on the journal tab. - Fixed by $Alisey
  • Fixed an old issue that "Reject" votes on news articles counted as favourites. - Fixed by $sgrahamUK
  • Fixed uploading files by dragging them onto the Writer sidebar in Firefox. - Fixed by $Alisey
  • A rather amusing bug was causing Ctrl-Z to undo and then immediately redo in Writer, making undo seem broken! - Fixed by $Alisey
Your Feedback

:bulletblue: Requests
  • Add the Google +1 button and the Facebook Like button to deviation pages. - From =Mary-Jane-Stokely and ~StancyMcKatt
  • After we added the ability to have "!" characters in deviation titles, some deviants requested other characters (such as & ? * " @ ' [] () ...). - From *PinkLace *chriseastmids *ninjatron ~Alisbet, and others
  • On Journal deviation pages, add the "Remove from Messages" option that appears on art deviations. - From ~PerfectDerealization
:bug: Known Issues
  • When editing a journal, there is a bug that sometimes reverts the category to "Personal". We will look into the cause of this bug. - From =Loona-Cry
  • When writing a comment, pressing the "tab" key — which normally selects the "Preview" button — scrolls the browser scrolls to the top of the page. We looked into this issue and it appears to only be happening on comment replies. We will identify the cause. - From =fyuvix
  • When writing a really long comment, the "preview" button does not work. We have identified the issue causing this and will be looking into a fix. - From *AspiredWriter
  • If your mouse's middle button is set to open links in new tabs, it does not work properly in the Message Center. We're looking into this issue. - From *AspiredWriter
  • When adding a lot of deviations to Writer, the images sometimes disappear once you save the post. We're looking into it.
  • When copy and pasting text from Microsoft Word into Writer, some HTML tags are not stripped and will display with the text. - From ~KettouRyuujin
  • It is not possible to submit journals to groups without submitting to your personal journal.
Carried Over From Last Week
  • Not everybody wants to put huge images in their journals when using Writer. You should be able to choose the default size for all added images. - From *Lionsong, ~NovemberWishes, and more
  • Writer's Auto-Save should not be affecting already-submitted deviations - it should be auto-saving your changes to your Drafts! We'll be fixing this so that your edits don't accidentally leak out early. - From =violetstory
  • It is not possible to set a preview image for literature made via Sta.sh Writer. - From =JazZeke, *JamieMDavies, and many more
  • Sta.sh Writer should have additional formatting options, including bullet points, margins - everything you would expect from a desktop word processor. - From *JamieMDavies, ~KettouRyuujin, and more!
  • Right now, even if you have a Sta.sh full of files, you can't access any of them from the main Submit page, or from the Print Submission page. This is something we're working on correcting. - From *sleepyowlet
  • Right now, Sta.sh thumbnails can't be used on deviantART - partially because it would mean 'bigger plz icons' in a lot of places, and partially because Sta.sh is meant to be that little bit separate. It's been suggested that we could allow the thumbs, but always put a "Sta.sh" overlay on them to mark them clearly. This is a cool idea that we'll definitely give more thought to! - From =HMFS
  • Simple: In Sta.sh Writer, the Tab Key should indent! - From ~Remy1716
  • Some are requesting that Sta.sh work on their mobile phones too - it's something we're definitely going to look at a little further down the road. But, as with everything, keep the requests keep coming in if it's something you want to see! - From ~AdolftheWolf, ~narutokunobessed, and more
  • Instead of having its own file-saving system, deviantART muro should just save to Sta.sh. And so it will! - From ~josehedgehog
  • YouTube embeds aren't working too well if you paste the embed code that their site gives you! We're going to fix this up, but in the meantime try the "Add Link" menu at the top to insert a youtube embed! - From =daigonite
  • The "Change Size" & "Move" buttons sometimes don't show up on images added to a Writer document. Still trying to figure out what's causing it! - From =katara-alchemist, =FullMetalMono, and more
  • Stray "closing tags" can end up appearing in Writer posts when experimenting with HTML. We're working on it! - From ~0567tlz 

:lightbulb:  Discuss These Ideas!

Here are some ideas that were brought up in the last site update that require a bit more discussion, planning, and debate. We want to hear your thoughts!
  • Multi-deviation publishing. Many deviants requested features that made it easier to publish multiple deviations. Some of these suggestions included the ability to schedule deviations, easier multi-deviation uploading, and the ability for Sta.sh to remember the settings you used last (for example: licenses, enabling or disabling comments and critiques, etc.). - From ~WindBlade-Zero, *StrangeOrangeFish=tkay, ~Eravee, and many more: including this awesome drawn request from ~iastudio - [link]
  • Editing and deleting comments. Some deviants would like the ability to delete comments. Some would like to edit comments to fix typos, formatting errors, or to clarify the comment. We're looking into offering a "Undo Send" button (similar to what Gmail offers). But, the notion of comment deletion treads on an old tradition of deviantART: its history. If you have made a comment, it's out there for the world to see. If you're in a forum discussion, and you start a subthread, you're not allowed to go back and delete the comment that started it all. It would leave a gap in an otherwise complete picture. It can be damaging to the community when you have the ability to say something and then later change what you've said, especially after people have replied. - From ~catanddogs ~FHjake, =Frankief, *PinkLace, ~black-cat16-stamps, ~Tai-shan, =Gex78, ~Masterluigi452, =ObakeDreams, =Wolfiegirl3005, =YourNumbr1Fan, *AilynnStarlight, *akibara, =Tophthetomboy, ~BetweenTheTeardrops, and others
  • Username changes. This has been an ongoing request from the community. There are major technical challenges around this feature, but we'd like to find a way to offer it. We'd like to hear more from you. Why do you want to change your username? What should happen to your old username? What should happen to your history on deviantART? Should old comments display your old or new username? - From *ziopork, ~mimi1708, ~Hayhayluvpokemon, ~CanyonFox, =PainterSai, =Kami-Hoshi, ~mayeru, *PrincessFirestix, ~WolfxOfxSilver, =Nawyat, =AM-WorldHero, =TheLeopordDiva, ~wolfboyomega, ~luvXallXthingsXanime, ~CloverFieldIsPownage, and others
  • "Report Deviant" buttons on profiles. - From *SukkaandKataang, ~BobaTeaAddict, and others
  • Search through notes and conversation view. Some deviants would like the ability to search through their own notes. Some requested the ability to view all notes between you and another deviant. - From `rydi1689, ^kasumichan2003, `ClefairyKid, *SenshiStock, and others
  • Search through favourites. Some deviants would like the ability to search through their own favourites. - From *lady-cybercat, ~IcyPheonix, ~sonicthemeatball, *Waffles-time, =Tophthetomboy and others
  • International characters in deviation titles. - From =fan4battle, ~SeddieThunder ~Orima-Kazooie and others
  • Gallery folders within gallery folders. - From ~Chemicide, *drawitout, *Yubinada, ~IIIXII, and others
  • Deviation series. Some artists would like the ability to easily create a deviation series (for comic book pages, a photoshoot series, literature chapters, etc.). - From =Mysticbynd and others
  • Mobile support improvements. Do you prefer the mobile interface, or do you disable it when you use your phone? Do you use deviantART on a tablet? What are the main problems and benefits you encounter?
  • Preserving color profiles in deviations. deviantART has always removed color profile information from files - mostly because we remove nearly ALL meta data - partially for cleanup, for privacy, for virus cleaning - for a million reasons. There are a lot of technical challenges around offering this. Should this apply to all submissions? Just Portfolio submissions? How important is this issue? From *arth1
  • Writer-style editing in comments. Not everyone knows HTML. Some people would like to see a Writer-style editor in comments, which would allow you to easily format a comment without typing in codes.




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Yo DA!! I can't search things with out there being an issue. Also while using this site on Google Chrome, DA seems to eat words. I'm getting tired of having to refresh the page and quickly reading what is missing. This only happens on DA using Google Chrome and its hella annoying. Please fix....now how to get this to them?