Added a "Blogs" sidebar showing new blog posts, which links to a new page, Blog Updates. This should hopefully make the blogging features more prominent and useful, as you'll now be able to tell everyone, in a long-winded manner, when you add new stuff to your conworld. I'd like to see how well this works for a week or two before actually going for broke with an automatic edit log. Having a polite, summarizable, highly visible, opt-in way of mentioning changes seems more like what Radius really wanted.

Alas, this doesn't include aggregated RSS feeds from other sites, so Jipí's Ayeri developments won't show up... yet.

Fixed ") making winking emoticons—overzealous display sanitization.

Fixed page lists in dictionaries not comprehending capital letters correctly (they would be regarded as distinct, whereas no orthographies on the site use a case distinction in this way) and exposed the export_headwords mode on dictionaries so you can easily feed your language into this or similar.

Is it possible to have a specific url formatting code for YouTube (like [youtube][/youtube] or [url_direction/|Youtube]) so we have the video window within the thread page? That way we can see them here, without having to click on the link.

Can we please never have that here?

Syntax:

...I'll add a setting to turn it off. I know it can be horrible for older computers.

Dr. John Science is shaking is left hand. His LEFT hand. Good for him! #GoLeft


Oops, old computers... Yep, I didn't think about that. Well, if the thing can be turned off the better

More that I don't want youtube boxes flying all over pages, and also a bit that they complicate trying to close down browser instances to lower memory usage (until I hunt down all windows and tabs with a youtube video the flash player on chromium won't die for some reason).

Okay. Done. Go check out the Settings page!

New bug: site slows to a crawl when someone with many unread forum posts browses it. This may include anonymous users. Oops.

Whose unread forum posts? Testament? Burn it alive!!!

quoting Nessari:

More that I don't want youtube boxes flying all over pages, and also a bit that they complicate trying to close down browser instances to lower memory usage (until I hunt down all windows and tabs with a youtube video the flash player on chromium won't die for some reason).

yeah they also sometimes have a way of breaking the use of the up and down buttons for scrolling
EVEN when you click outside the video on some nice safe whitespace ... in the most hilarious version of this, you can sometimes be using the down key to scroll a page and without clicking anything the down key will suddenly stop scrolling the page when the youtube window becomes visible and it'll just start turning down the volume in the unclicked, unplayed youtube clip

quoting Kereb:

yeah they also sometimes have a way of breaking the use of the up and down buttons for scrolling
EVEN when you click outside the video on some nice safe whitespace ... in the most hilarious version of this, you can sometimes be using the down key to scroll a page and without clicking anything the down key will suddenly stop scrolling the page when the youtube window becomes visible and it'll just start turning down the volume in the unclicked, unplayed youtube clip

The arrow key issue sounds like something Only On Mac®. What browser are you running?

quoting Izambri:

Whose unread forum posts? Testament? Burn it alive!!!

And... yeah, Testament had like 500 unread forum posts. It was a bad trip.

quoting Rhetorica:

Okay. Done. Go check out the Settings page!

Yaaay thankies!

A bit of a nitpicky point, but would it be difficult to have the example emoticons there be in the same order L>R they are in the dropdown Top>Bottom? I got two wrong when I guessed which colors they were, and had no clue on a third (elimination didn't help because it just looked wrong for the color left over, to my eyes). I already had my settings for them down, but someone else who's colorblind might come along and have similar trouble?

edit: gods dammit marked terms screwing up my recall

A worthwhile notion. Fixed.

Yay!

...this exposes a new bug: if you re-visit the Settings page after having checked to disable embedded videos, it clears. Note that this is not after hitting Submit Everything; it works after that. But on a subsequent re-visit to Settings for me, the checkbox was cleared and the embedded video upthread here showed up (following a page reload).

You're right—I triggered that earlier but didn't realise why. Fixed it.

quoting Rhetorica:

The arrow key issue sounds like something Only On Mac®. What browser are you running?

It doesn't happen here. Don't worry.
When it does happen to me though it happens on both mac and PC