Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200904132900/@comment-3218221-20200906025813

entry points...Reported Queue

Just to confirm, if no posts have been reported on a wiki (especially a wiki that does not have Comments or Discussions enabled), are the error messages "Loading reported posts failed" and "REPORTED POSTS LOAD ERROR" expected responses? I assume they are, since the migrated wiki I admin has neither feature enabled, I just want to confirm these are the expected messages when 'Reported Queue' is clicked.

(Note: to be absolutely clear, I'm not saying I expected anything when I clicked on Reported Queue, given the migrated wiki does not have Comments / Discussions enabled! I suppose I'm just curious if these messages were written with these circumstances in mind.)

re-enabling of ogg file uploading

Ah, but the actual audio file player is still defunct, yes? To quote the user-compiled list of issues, "OGG-Vorbis audio files do not show audio player UI and just give a link" is similar to what is now occurring on the migrated wiki I admin (previously was just a link, now displaying a blank bar). I look forward to the actual player UI being functional again, since there is little good in uploading files to UCP wikis that cannot play them.

The source editor now has a solid background, reducing legibility issues on communities with "busy" custom backgrounds. Hm, can you confirm if this change is meant to affect UCP and 'legacy' wikis or just, er, 'legacy' wikis? I've tested this on a 'legacy' wiki with a semi-transparent background and can confirm the source editor is solidly backed there, but on the one migrated wiki I admin, the source editor does not display a solid background; its background remains the custom 'parchment image' background set via CSS.

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I must say the mobile editor updates/fixes are a tad bemusing in the wake of 'mobile preview' being removed from UCP Wikis. As someone who rarely operates a smartphone, I mostly relied on the mobile preview editor to attend to the mobile homepage et al. Admittedly I did not do this as often as I could, but the fact remains it was my primary means of attending to the mobile experience at all. I suppose if I am to maintain the mobile experience at all, I am expected to have regular access to a smartphone? That's unfortunate.

In the wake of UCP migrations being paused, MisterWoodhouse, I do want to say I'll be keeping an even closer eye on Technical Updates in the upcoming months, given that the most popular wiki I admin (504 articles and counting) was among those migrated last month. As I said on your blog post, I think pausing was the right move, and I look forward to seeing the current UCP experience stabilized and improved. The editing experience is extremely slow, which is why I hope the 2010 editor will provide a comparatively faster experience for the time being (and am glad to hear its development is coming along).

Thanks for the updates in these trying times.

(Recommending rock bands, are we? Then I'll nominate The Cranberries, if you please, and throw in some Alice in Chains and a pinch of R.E.M.)