10/10/2017: Development update ("autosaving" & Intercom options)

post by habryka (habryka4) · 2017-10-10T19:15:12.804Z · LW · GW · 2 comments

Hey Everyone,

Here is a quick summary of changes I just pushed:

  • Editor fields should now be saved locally on your computer, which means that if you reload the page while writing a comment or editing a post, your content will no longer be reset (however, over the course of a few hours your computer might flush that storage, so don't rely on it as a long-term solution for storing drafts)

  • Your edit-profile page now has a cleaner UI and should be slightly less confusing (though a more thorough rework is also in the works)

  • You can now hide the Intercom chat in your profile settings

  • We made some changes to how bullet lists render in comments and posts, they should look slightly less janky now

We are still working on performance improvements, are still improving autosave functionality and also have a larger font and style rework in the works that should fix rendering issues on windows and linux machines.

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comment by the gears to ascension (lahwran) · 2017-10-10T19:45:15.885Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

hesitant, worried am complaining unreasonably: larger font? but it's already so large...

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comment by habryka (habryka4) · 2017-10-10T20:00:34.831Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Ah, the beauty of ambiguous comma placement. The "larger" is a modifier for "rework", i.e. a clearer way of writing would be "larger font-and-style rework" or "larger rework of the font and the CSS styles".