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charmian ([personal profile] charmian) wrote2009-10-19 08:02 am
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http://www.dreamwidth.org/search

You may now search public Dreamwidth entries, provided that the user has not opted out of either site-search, or had already disabled search-engine indexing. This is a great feature. However, one thing which I did wish it had was an ability to order by date (I guess that now it is ordered according to relevance?). I'm not sure whether it does exact phrase searching (in quotes? "") [EDIT: It now has these abilities.]

Re: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/968334.html

IMHO, I think it would be useful to have as an option for all layouts, "hide icons," where all users would simply show up posting as though they had no icon, especially as that would save BW. I also wonder how this situation would be handled on DW, as there the option to default to non-explicit default icon is not there, since DW doesn't have that rule about how default icons must be non-explicit.

It also seems as though somehow the latest posts feed has been cleaned up somewhat. Well, cleaned up for the purposes of hiding egregious spambots; there is a lot of NSFW content there, which I have no idea is legit or not, and there are still spambots there, but fewer of the 'huge post with a bajillion spam links' variety.
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[personal profile] afuna 2009-10-20 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
I think that someone was listening -- both of the things you pointed out are now out (sorting by date is currently according to the user-provided date, not the system-recorded date, but I think that should fix itself within the next five hours or so).
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[personal profile] charmian 2009-10-20 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oh goody, I just noticed that. :D

Yeah, that would be useful, especially for the mobile users, who have to pay by the MB. Also for people who just want the pages to be a tad faster. I use a firefox extension to turn images off, a lot, and with LJ and DW, in firefox turning images off screws up the threading on LJ comments. :(
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[personal profile] afuna 2009-10-20 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
Eek, yes. That's because the indentation in site schemes is done using a spacer gif. We hope to fix that in DW at some point, as part of a general overhaul of the page to reduce tables, etc.
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[personal profile] charmian 2009-10-20 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
Hurray! I'm looking forward to it! Hope it isn't too hard to fix.
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[personal profile] afuna 2009-10-20 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
For the second one, it would be neat if there were a global setting for that -- that would make it work on the site scheme as well, and I could see it being useful for things like mobile view, or a low bandwidth version somewhree...
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[personal profile] charmian 2009-10-20 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, that's good. At least that page is somewhat useful now.
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