User blog:Kirkburn/Technical Update: July 29, 2014

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Wednesday, so we're posting this on a Tuesday to give you advance notice. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

New Features

 * Starting tomorrow with this release, Lua will be available upon request at Special:Contact.

Major Bugs Fixed

 * Sliders will no longer display some images with big white borders and badly sized thumbnails.
 * A VisualEditor situation that caused some edits to fail to save, will be fixed.

Other Notable Changes
Detailed CSS updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net - the diffs show changes to .css, .scss, .tmpl.php, .html, .sass and .mustache files in Wikia's codebase.


 * 'Message Wall Greeting' namespace pages will be visible to all users, rather than just the creator. Thanks, Volunteer Developers.
 * The chat ban reason will be added to the string sent on user ban (for advanced users). Thanks, Volunteer Developers.

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