The Dreamwidth Herald

Official Announcements

• Capacity Update

Improvements [not live yet]

• Support: allow users to see all their current and past requests at /support/history.


• Importer: make comment importing go faster. Much faster.


• Importer: fix issue with truncated picture keywords in comments.


• New notification: add ability to subscribe to a user's posts to a community. You can get to it by clicking on "track this" under an entry by the desired user.


• New themes: Crossroads.

• Code tour, 23 Jan - 1 Feb 2012


• A poll about the DW user head image

• Code tour: January 05-26, 2012


• New spam campaign variation - keysmash subject, financial comment

Official Announcements

• Dreamwidth Studios is against SOPA/PIPA.


• Antispam: Yearly Stats: 2011


• Rydra_wong explains why, today, you get ALL the spam.

Improvements [edited: live now!]

• OpenID: initial support for claiming an OpenID account.


• Lost Info: don't show purged usernames.


• Navigation Menu: log out in one click again.


• Shop: automatically generate the year range for the credit card expiry menu.


• Manage Icons: sort by keyword case-insensitively.


• Manage Circle/Custom Colors: link to Customize and add a note.


• Inbox:new subfolder for community membership requests.


• Search: add subject highlighting.


• Entry previews: show a proper preview of polls and show a warning instead when one can't post polls.


• Comments: make choosing random icon a button.


• Styles: option to make archive and calendar week start on a Monday, part I.


• Styles: option to make archive and calendar week start on a Monday, part II.


• Crisped: new themes.


• Blanket, Drifting and Refried Tablet: minor fixes.