March 29 Feature Update

[iacas]

This thread describes features and bug fixes that are planned to deploy to this site later today.

As usual, this release will start around 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. As it deploys, this site will experience a brief outage.

New Features:

• Article Types
• Spoiler "hints" and BBCode support

Bug Fixes:

• Pagination restored to default albums
• First round of IE9 and FF4 compliance fixes (more to follow):

Article Types:

While the wiki platform is flexible and powerful, freeform wikis have not been a runaway success so far on Huddler communities. To lend some structure to the system, you can now set up "article types" to organize the content you have and guide users to create the kinds you want. The root level of the wiki area will now show a single tab that lists all document types as "Articles." From there, you can create more types.

We've added new navigation to help your members browse through these articles. Additionally, you can create different names for different types of articles -- these article types will appear in tabs on the main Articles page.

Spoiler "hints" and BBCode support:

With spoilers, members can currently enter text in a forum post, then collapse the text under a single header that displays as "Warning Spoiler! Click to show." We modified this feature slightly so it could be used for collapsing any block of text, not just plot spoilers.

We've had spoilers in CK Editor for a while, but with this release, members who use the BB Code editor can also add them. Members using either editor may also leave a custom title for their spoiler; if no custom title is selected, we'll display the "Warning Spoiler!" default message instead.

Example (non-working):

Don't read if you haven't seen "The Sixth Sense!" (Click to show)

Pagination restored to default albums:

Right now, albums that contain more images than can be displayed on a single page do not display pagination that would let a user move beyond page 1. In this release, we've restored pagination controls to galleries.

Example: this default gallery displays 24 images, but there are actually 130+ images within. After the release, members will be able to jump between pages in this gallery.

First round of IE9 and FF4 compliance fixes (more to follow):

Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 were both released recently -- our Engineering team has started working to ensure that these popular browsers work as expected on the Huddler platform.

This release contains our initial efforts to work with IE9 and FF4, but we'll certainly continue to optimize the site experience for members using these browsers.

That's all for now -- as ever, if you have questions about this release, please ask them here.

[iacas]

BTW, the Spoiler example looks goofy for now. I suppose it'll look normal (maybe) after the update rolls out.