Leigh Beadon 's Techdirt Comments

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• On the post: Some Known Issues With The New Techdirt

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2022 @ 09:29pm

  Personally, I would not describe it as a disaster

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  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2022 @ 06:54am

  Hi Ehud - we are working as hard as we can to resolve all the issues. This site migration was a necessary thing for us, and some bugs were inevitable - and we have a very small team but we're doing what we can to make it as smooth as possible. We'll get your Crystal Ball restored ASAP - I'm sorry to hear that this brief disruption impacts your goodwill towards the site.

• On the post: Important Announcement: Techdirt Is Migrating To A New Platform

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 12:51pm

  One of your replies was caught in an overactive spam filter (now cleared). And I see one more reply from you, and several other comments - not sure if there are others missing? We will continue looking into it.

• On the post: Important Announcement: Techdirt Is Migrating To A New Platform

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 12:29pm

  Very strange - even in mobile it shouldn't look anything like that, so not sure why that's happening. We'll figure it out as soon as we can!

• On the post: Important Announcement: Techdirt Is Migrating To A New Platform

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 12:17pm

  Woah! What browser/system are you on? You are getting major display issues there - that is nothing like how it's supposed to look.

• On the post: Important Announcement: Techdirt Is Migrating To A New Platform

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 12:07pm

  Your comment with the pastebin link was caught in spam yeah (cleared now) - not sure if that was a freak accident or what, we'll be monitoring the issue of false positives and figure out how to tweak going forward.

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 12:00pm

  Yeah - that system hasn't been in real use for a very long time, and we were having some issues with it in the transition, so we decided to deprecate for the time being. I know that sucks for some of our long-time users who had some old submitted stories in there, and I'm sorry about that! At some point we will try to bring it back if we can.

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 11:51am

  The issue may have to do with the fact that your memberships were bought with a different email address than your Techdirt account email, then activated on your Techdirt account. The system should be handling that, but it seems not to be in this case. If you still have access to the email that you bought the subscription with, you can check there - I think you will have gotten a new Activation email, allowing you to reactivate the subscription on your TD account. Feel free to do that, if you did! But this should have happened automatically so we're working on getting it fixed, too.

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 11:21am

  Variable width works, there's no hard limit! BUT the issue is with user preferences not being saved for non-logged-in users. Very sorry about that - as soon as we get that fixed it will work just like it used to.

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 11:16am

  Update: your membership is still in the system, just something went wrong with it properly associating with your account! We will get this fixed asap

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 11:10am

  Looking into this for you

• On the post: Important Announcement: Techdirt Is Migrating To A New Platform

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 10:30am

  Yup there are a few character issues still being resolved - those question marks should start disappearing soon!

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 10:29am

  The Comment Scrubber

  We'll be rolling out a fix to prevent the comment scrubber from covering up content on variable width display soon! And following that, a user preference to disable it entirely. I do urge people to wait and give it a try next time we have a huge comment thread though - I find it very useful for navigation when that's the case.

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 10:27am

  The icons also visibly change, but it's probably not distinct enough. Definitely will make some tweaks to this interface experience soon!

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 10:26am

  Will look into the menu issue. And that's a cool idea for the width preference, going to keep that in mind for future!

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 10:25am

  Looking into this. On our old system there were two tiers: admins saw matching gravatars across multiple posts, users only saw them matching within each post. It appears we've lost that second tier - I see matching gravatars for your comments, but regular users don't. We'll get it fixed up.

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 07:11am

  They should be, I'll look into this, thanks for the heads up!

• On the post: Welcome To The New Techdirt!

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2022 @ 06:23am

  Commenting should work just fine without Javascript! (Though comment Previews currently do not)

• On the post: Important Announcement: Techdirt Is Migrating To A New Platform

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2022 @ 08:54pm

  whoops yeah that should be better positioned when on variable width - we'll get that fixed soon!

• On the post: Important Announcement: Techdirt Is Migrating To A New Platform

  

  Leigh Beadon ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2022 @ 08:48pm

  Aha, good thing I tested! I saw the issues in the comment preview as well - but upon submitting, the characters worked! We'll get the previews fixed up soon, but until then you can quote to your heart's desire

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