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  • Author Author: Matt
  • Date Created: 18 Nov 2019 12:16 PM Date Created
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November 2019 Site Update

Matt
Matt
18 Nov 2019

In our penultimate site update of the year, we've got some new functionality we're hoping you'll find useful.

 

First up are upcoming webinar reminders. These are configured to show up when there's a webinar starting in the next 24 hours.. they're easy to dismiss or to minimise until you want to take a look, and if you don't like them at all, you can disable them. We're hoping you'll find them a useful reminder so that you don't miss out on the awesome (and free!) webinars we run.

 

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Minimised version;

 

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Then, when a webinar has already started, we've improved the event page to show a 'Join Now' button;

 

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That's not all.. we've created some nice-looking widgets to display lists of events. The widget design was based off the element14 Presents video browser, and looks very similar. It has a number of display options, for example;

 

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The lazy-loading of images is something we've improved on over the past 2 site updates.. and today we've deployed further changes to delay loading even more images so that they only display when your device scrolls them into view. We have also told the code to lazy-load t should help where there are a lot of embedded videos inside content. Lazy-loading dramatically improves performance on slow connections. Just as you've done before, please let us know if you spot any problems with this; we're hoping we've tested all scenarios, but you never know image

 

Our anti-spam code has been improved to help prevent abuse of the @mention feature.. there will be a further update to this in our next release. We've also adjusted the code so that certain groups of users (including Top Members) don't get caught up by one of our automated processes.

 

Fixes

 

  • Create personal blog was broken in the Create menu
  • Unable to delete an Attachment in editor
  • Embedding a Tweet didn't show properly in Replies on RoadTest pages
  • When images are pasted, max-width and max-height are set which don't scale.. that's now fixed
  • Image lazy-loader wasn't working properly on Discussion replies
  • Image Gallery wasn't load when it's inside comments.. that's fixed, and can support multiple galleries
  • Reply buttons for DMs were grey, looked broken.. that button style (and others) have been fixed
  • Countdown clock was wrong for Applications when outside of UTC timezone
  • RoadTest Review with a Table of Contents in first 800 characters broke the Review snippet

 

Improvements

 

  • Allow higher resolution thumbnails for Video records
  • Added a way for our Content Teams to switch tabs via links inside the Tabbed Widget
  • New Raspberry Pi Customisation Form
  • 2 x SEO improvements
  • 1 x other improvement

 

Behind the scenes

  • 8 x improvements
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Top Comments

  • Matt
    Matt over 5 years ago +1
    Thanks for the heads up.. we raised this with our release team, who are looking at it right now.
  • clem57
    clem57 over 5 years ago in reply to Dudley +1
    Seems to have gone away at this point. Also, the system is responding quicker than before. Clem
  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 5 years ago in reply to Dudley +1
    It is behaving smoothly. I have not seen this repeating after the boot.
  • cstanton
    cstanton over 5 years ago in reply to brianchilders

    The badge system can be a bit fickle, but at least it is awarding it image

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  • brianchilders
    brianchilders over 5 years ago

    Matt here are some observations - I noticed this before and after the site update this evening.

     

    I am on a mac - (I can check windows tomorrow).

     

    1. On the Christmas Badges (thank you for them btw) ... I noticed this..

     

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    So while it indicates as being complete - the attributes are not shown as being completed.

     

    This then also makes the badge show up in the incomplete list (even though it is marked as being completed) - Sorted by "Show Unearned Missions First".

     

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    2. I also noticed a typographical error (not a coding error) on the Pi Expert I Badge...

     

    It reads: Have 10 of your responses to other members' questions in any one of these Raspberry Pi groups marked

    It should read: Have 10 of your responses to other members' questions in any one of these Raspberry Pi groups marked "correct"

     

     

    Hope this helps... image

     

    -brian

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 5 years ago in reply to Dudley

    It is behaving smoothly. I have not seen this repeating after the boot.

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 5 years ago in reply to Dudley

    Seems to have gone away at this point. Also, the system is responding quicker than before.

    Clem

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  • Dudley
    Dudley over 5 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    I've noticed on Windows 10 64 bit with Latest Chrome that the first image doesn't always load. I have to scroll down until it disappears then back up. Then it loads.

    Not easy to reproduce

    That's interesting Jan Cumps. We've not seen that behaviour at all during testing.

     

    I'm kinda hoping it's related to the JS issues. We've just bounced everything to try fix the inbox issue and we're collecting data on if it's still a problem or not.

     

    Once the site has settled, can you let us know if the first image failing to load continues to be a problem going forwards?

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