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DK6 Week 10: End of Week Update
I’m writing the end of week update today instead of tomorrow because Daily Kos staff are off tomorrow in honor of Juneteenth. I plan to bring my twins to a cultural event in my town in observance — I’ll see you all again next week. Please continue to send those bug reports! They are critical…
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DK6 Week 9: End of Week Update
Fixed This Week Coming Next Week We Need Bug Reports! We are continuing to investigate logout issues. We have also gotten some reports that it is difficult to write a story on mobile/tablets — if anyone is experiencing this, could you please share more details about what isn’t working? Thank you as always for your…
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DK6 Week 8: End of Week Update
Daily Kos staff had a team off-site this week, adjacent to Netroots Nation, and it was so lovely meeting some members of this community in person! Ed Tracey, cohenzee, brillig, BeninSC, mommyof3, and so many others — it’s so much fun to meet the faces behind the screen names (and if the staff has been…
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Help us dream up new Daily Kos merch
We’ve been thinking about new Daily Kos merch—and honestly, nobody knows this community better than the community itself.
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The DOJ came after Daily Kos. Here’s the full story.
Last year, on June 26, I wrote a story headlined, “Trump’s DOJ is targeting Daily Kos.” At the time, I couldn’t explain what was happening. A gag order prevented it. Now I can.
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DK6 Week 7: End of Week Update
What We Fixed This Week: What We Are Working On Next Week: We are still looking for anyone getting logged out more often than every 14 days — if this happens to you, please report it, especially if you can’t log in again. And as always please report your bugs and concerns on this post!…
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Daily Kos 24th anniversary: Check out these highlights from our staff writers
Daily Kos staff writers were asked to highlight some of their favorite recent stories as we mark the site’s 24th anniversary.
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Daily Kos 24th anniversary: You’ll love our hate mail
Once upon a time, social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok didn’t exist. But Daily Kos did.
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Daily Kos 24th anniversary: The year in community-authored stories
As part of our anniversary-related content, let’s narrate our 24th year through a selection of community-authored stories that our metrics indicate went viral in one way or another, a mix of engagement from other community members on the site (recommends, comments) and/or traffic from significant numbers of readers from other sources (story views). Taken as…
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DK6 Week 6: End of Week Update
The Current Work List The Fix List It’s hard to believe we have been on DK6 for six weeks! Just a reminder, we are still taking logout reports if you have issues with logging in or staying logged in, and definitely take your bug reports/feature requests in the comments. We are closing access to the…
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Last chance for free six-month subscription
If you haven’t gotten your free six-month subscription yet, go here while logged in: Free Daily Kos subscription. Friday is the last day to claim it, so don’t wait if you’ve been procrastinating or missed the earlier announcements. If you are wondering why we’re doing that, read this. As for migration progress, Allison posted a big…
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DK6 Week 6: Help Us With Log in/out Issues
We are deep in the weeds of trying to troubleshoot issues with login and logout. I think we have found some of the more obvious bugs, but we are still getting a lot of problem reports, and we’re to the point where we need you victims to break out your software engineer hats. If you…
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DK6 Week 5: End of Week Update
The Current Work List The Fix List This was a big week! Markos decided to give away a free six-month subscription to everyone who has stuck with us through this transition. If you haven’t yet claimed yours, please do so at that link — we will be taking it down next week. As some users…
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Enjoy a free 6-month Daily Kos subscription on us!
Everyone gets a free six-month Daily Kos subscription!
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DK6 update: INDENTED COMMENTS ARE BACK
We’ve talked about the challenges we faced choosing a commenting platform, and why we ultimately picked Viafoura despite it lacking important features. (Short answer: the only real alternative was Disqus, and it was missing plenty of things people would’ve justifiably complained about too.) The platform we chose, Viafoura, lacked visually indented threaded comments—the kind where…
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Join us at Netroots Nation in Philadelphia June 4-6
We hope to see you at Netroots Nation next month.
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DK4 week four: Mystery surprise coming
This is the week we hope to roll out indented comment threads. No promises yet, but work is ongoing and it’s coming sooner rather than later. We also rolled out an update this morning that should fix an intermittent performance issue when writing stories and diaries, while making several tweaks to the user profile page…
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DK6 Week 4: End of Week Update
The Current Work List The Fix List Product Requests for the Commenting Platform I have the opportunity to meet with the Viafoura product team and ask them for an ordered list of our top priority fixes (“make it work like DK5” is not specific enough, unfortunately). This is my Top 7 list. What do you…
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DK6 Day 22: On site performance
Unlike features, which we can disagree on, performance is objective—it either works snappily, or it doesn’t, and it can be measured. We just performed our first performance audit of the new site, and here’s how it compares to the old one.
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DK6 Week 4 Midweek: How To Delete An Image
The Current Work List The Fix List Deleting A Block An early issue users said they had was not knowing how to delete an image or block when writing a story on an iPad or phone. After investigating, we realized that we had removed a menu from the community story editor that we should not…
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DK6 Early Week 4: Logout Issues, Continued
The Current Work List The Fix List Getting Logged Out, Continued We released a fix this morning for some users getting logged out. What we need to know, is, did that make a difference? Are you still getting logged out? Let us know below. Thank you!
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DK6 Day 20: New sidebar widget, comment recs
We’re nearing the end of the third week of the migration, and the team is still working through our punchlist of fixes, improvements, enhancements, and additions. A few notes before updated to-do list. If you’re experiencing logout issues, please check out Allison’s story. She’s collecting information to help troubleshoot. We’ve added a new sidebar widget,…
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DK6 Early Week 4: Having Logout Problems?
The Current Work List The Fix List Logout Problems The length of time we have set before you should need to log in to Daily Kos again is 14 days (we do need to force people to re-login periodically for security; I know the old site didn’t work like that). If you are being asked…
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DK6 Week 3: End of Week Tech Update
The Current Work List The Fix List Thank you all for your help with researching the “Server Error” on the polls and the grayed out POST button that some users were seeing on Safari. It turns out that both of these issues were caused by privacy settings. Server Error When Voting On Polls This is…
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DK6 Day 16: Comment loading issue improved
One of the most frustrating bugs over the past two weeks has been comments failing to load—often requiring multiple reloads to appear. Yesterday, we deployed a fix and have been tracking the results. The data is clear: the issue has been significantly improved. The root problem was straightforward. Viafoura comments would throw an error if…
