New 12 months, New Recent Loaf

Hello! It is a submit concerning the positioning refresh (that I am cross-posting to the previous web site as effectively so I haven’t got to maintain recreating it each time we do a migration)

As you might be seemingly conscious, Floyd’s been engaged on a web site improve for the previous a number of weeks (months!).

It isn’t performed performed but, and there are a variety of tweaks and enhancements that we all know we wish to get to, and positively there’s some sprucing up we wish to do, however we’re trying to get the positioning migrated and it is a change to check issues out, and for proper now, we wish to ensure that crucial and fundamental performance is in place in order that we will do a full web site migration hopefully across the finish of the yr.

What’s new:

Works in your cell gadgets (lastly!):

• The brand new web site is designed to be extra mobile-friendly. Once we began this web site 20 years in the past, telephone looking wasn’t actually a factor…and the positioning migration gave us the chance to replace the format of the positioning so you must now have the ability to lookup your discussion board and recipe posts extra simply from the kitchen in your telephones and tablets and hopefully now the positioning will probably be considerably extra readable on smaller gadgets.
• Photographs added to discussion board and weblog posts will now show responsively (which means that they need to look okay on telephones and tablets now.) 
  (identified challenge: when importing massive photos, you’ll want to watch for the complete add earlier than saving your submit (it is simple to overlook – you may see a small indicator on the prime of the picture after which slightly dialog field will pop up prompting you to enter a picture description to assist describe what’s being proven for any visually impaired web site guests)
• The brand new inserted video hyperlink possibility means that you can share issues like youtube movies that will not break on telephones. (identified challenge: choose the “responsive video” possibility when including new movies for now – we’ll see about altering it to make that the default after we can get to fixing this half)

Your account profile:

• There’s intention to enhance the site-wide consumer menu that will get you entry to your account options – however that is gonna take us slightly chunk of time to get it working and we’re antsy to share this with you even earlier than we have got that stage of polish on the positioning … so hold tight on that function.
• For proper now,  you may get to your account menu on the aspect bar (or backside of the web page on cell gadgets) once you’re logged in. 
• You can even entry your account from the goofy little bread icon in the fitting hand nook by the search bar (it is only a short-term placeholder for that higher account menu function we take note of for now). 
• Your previous profile descriptions haven’t been migrated and we have simplified that quite a bit. For those who really feel like including some details about your self to share with group members, you might edit your account and add that to the bio and it’ll seem to trusted group members after they view your profile web page. 
• Your previous bookmarks have additionally been migrated – you could find these from the “My Bookmarks” tab in your “My Account” web page.

E mail notifications:

• Proper now on this testing part (whereas it is on the “refresh” web site url), no notifications are being despatched out from this take a look at web site and all of your emails have been scrambled as a protected measure, so you will not get or set off any notifications with exercise on this web site and none of that stuff has been examined but. 
• Observe that if you happen to attempt to reset your password from an current account on this take a look at server it will not work because of this (we do not have your e-mail on this take a look at server to ship you the hyperlink)
• For a similar cause, creating a brand new account on the take a look at server received’t work since you received’t be getting that e-mail that’s wanted to finish the method.
• We’ve additionally not migrated previous observe hyperlinks (stuff you adopted for e-mail notifications when individuals made feedback there). We nonetheless have some work to do across the notifications stuff – child steps. Bear with us right here.
• Non-public messaging has modified a bit.  Your previous messages will nonetheless be present in your “All Messages” web page – however how the function works has needed to change a bit.  For proper now, you possibly can ship messages to different established web site members by sending to their web site username from the New Message tab in your Messages web page. (there’s not a button on everybody’s profile for the time being just like the previous web site used to have).
• Fancy stuff like getting notifications about incoming messages on the positioning itself (past e-mail which isn’t turned on proper now) are.. effectively… on the checklist, however a lot decrease from all the opposite stuff we wish to enhance right here. (This web site was by no means supposed to switch personal messaging apps like your e-mail and we usually desire to not have any of your personal delicate stuff sitting on our servers)  
• Observe that newly created accounts and accounts that have not had this function enabled for them will proceed to not have entry to the personal messaging in an effort to stop spam and common misuse of the system.

Different:

• A number of the lesser used options of the previous web site have been simplified as a result of there wasn’t a straightforward option to migrate them. We had experimented with a “recipe” submit content material kind however only a few individuals have been utilizing it and it did not actually work (it was purported to do all the mathematics for halving and doubling recipes), and anyway most of this web site is a huge recipe archive, so we have folded that content material kind into common discussion board kind content material.
• Some sections just like the previous FAQs are going to wish some content material refreshes since plenty of stuff is slightly bit completely different – a minimum of across the how-to web site navigation stuff. Bear with us on this because it’ll come however seemingly not instantly. Proper now our main focus is getting current web site members comfy within the new setting and hopefully pleased with a number of the enhancements, and ensuring that we have captured and moved the a great deal of nice knowledge which were posted right here through the years continues to dwell on the positioning for brand new web site guests stumbling right here from net searches.

There’s a number of beauty tweaks that we’re conscious of which are larger on our checklist submit launch, however proper now we’re making an attempt to get the precise content material migrated first and ensure it is working sufficient that knowledge wasn’t misplaced and it isn’t unimaginable to make use of anymore. Bear with us –  there could also be a number of mops and ladders nonetheless sitting across the office whereas we open up the cafe to our group members within the new workspace.