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EarlG

(22,639 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 11:54 AM Apr 2024

We're pleased to announce that DU Journals are working again

For those who have missed them, DU Journals are now working again. For technical reasons we have revamped the Journal archive section slightly, so everyone now has a separate page showing your Journal archives, which can be accessed from the "All Journal entries" link in the right column of your Journal. (This link is not currently available on mobile, but should be soon.)

This marks the conclusion of the behind-the-scenes software update project that Elad has been wrestling with for the last few months. These updates were not optional, and although you did not see much of the effort that went into it, this was a very significant project which Elad worked extremely hard on.

We do still have some additional behind-the-scenes updates coming up next month which may require some brief downtime, but those should hopefully be dealt with relatively quickly and easily. Aside from those, we'll be moving on to other things.

During the Hearts fund drive last February, when we noted that the current state of online advertising has been causing financial problems for DU, many of you asked if we could add one or two additional fund drives during the year. Given that ad rates are still struggling -- along with the fact that some of the big tech companies are actively acting to suppress political discussion this year -- we've decided that this is a good (and necessary) idea. So in the second half of May we're going to run a new mini fund drive for a few days. I'll have more details about that nearer the time.

After that, we'll finally be free to get back to site development -- we have some ideas to work on as we move towards this fall's elections, and I daresay we might also be ready to take feature requests.

Thanks for reading!

EarlG, on behalf of Elad -- the DU Administrators

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We're pleased to announce that DU Journals are working again (Original Post) EarlG Apr 2024 OP
May flowers! (maybe) quaint Apr 2024 #1
I have a journal ? dweller Apr 2024 #2
You and It and lovely posts. quaint Apr 2024 #3
Is it possible to gift Star Membership? JoseBalow Apr 2024 #4
Awwwwwww, that's sweet! calimary Apr 2024 #8
The Summer Fund Drive in August is the one where EarlG Apr 2024 #10
Perfecto! JoseBalow Apr 2024 #11
YAY!! 2naSalit Apr 2024 #5
EarlG - that link in the body of your message SupportSanity Apr 2024 #6
That took awhile - gives me an idea of what a complex set of fix-its you had to handle. calimary Apr 2024 #7
Thank you both! Great job! question everything Apr 2024 #9
Our heroes -- many thanks! Hekate Apr 2024 #12
❤️ littlemissmartypants Apr 2024 #13
The journal archive is a great new feature! Emrys May 2024 #14

EarlG

(22,639 posts)
10. The Summer Fund Drive in August is the one where
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 03:12 PM
Apr 2024

members can gift Star Memberships to other members as part of the promotion, but that's the only time during the year that it's possible.

SupportSanity

(1,168 posts)
6. EarlG - that link in the body of your message
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 01:57 PM
Apr 2024

should be it's own discussion.

It looks like there are instructions to turn the bad settings off in its contents.

Just a suggestion.

Thanks to the both of you for all your great work!

calimary

(84,638 posts)
7. That took awhile - gives me an idea of what a complex set of fix-its you had to handle.
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 02:24 PM
Apr 2024

Thanks so much for all that work! I bet there were a few moments of frustration in there.

Emrys

(8,065 posts)
14. The journal archive is a great new feature!
Mon May 20, 2024, 04:33 PM
May 2024

I sometimes need to refer back to my past journal entries, and it would get tedious having to scroll back though any number of pages in the hope of finding what I was looking for.

The indexing by dates at least gives me a fighting chance of finding what I wanted before I give up from boredom or exhaustion.

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