User blog:Rappy/Technical Update: November 2, 2016

Here are the latest technical updates on Fandom. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

Notable Changes
Recent mobile app updates are listed on Apps Technical Updates, and detailed site CSS-related updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net
 * The Mobile Main Page tool now includes the ability to set a text description and representative image for a community. This text and image will be used in various ways around the Fandom network, such as in search results and on Community App home screens. This functionality is analogous to what was previously offered in the retired Special:Promote feature. The wiki description and main image from Special:Promote, for communities that had added content to that tool, is being migrated to the Mobile Main Page tool. Further help page updates, and a Community Central Forum post with more details, will be forthcoming.
 * Forum thread is here.
 * Semantic MediaWiki, used on some communities, will be receiving a significant backend upgrade - check out this blog post for more info.
 * The Discussions Activity Feed will truncate long posts and so will have a more predictable size.
 * The Discussions Activity Feed will clearly mark deleted posts as deleted, as occurs on the main Discussions pages. As on those pages, deleted posts are only visible to moderators and admins.

Questions? Comments? Feel free to leave them below. And if you have additional bugs to report, please send them to us via Special:Contact.