Technical Updates: November 29, 2024
Hey hey, my lovelies!I hope everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving enjoyed their time with their family! The Technical Updates are a blog series where we publish a selection of bug fixes, potential experiments, and other changes to the platform every other Friday. For the first time since I've been publishing the Technical Updates, this will be the third Technical Updates blog in the same month! The only other time this could've happened this year was in May, but I was on holiday on the 3rd, so Tim published instead. Does that change anything to what this blog is about? Absolutely not, so let's see what happened! And remember, if you have questions or remarks about anything you read, don't hesitate to bring it up in a constructive manner in …
Technical Updates: November 15, 2024
Hiya, my lovely people! It's slowly becoming that time of year again where for many of us the hours of daylight we get are reducing. Perfect time to curl up underneath a blanket and read the latest tech blog! If you're new to these series, you may be wondering what the technical updates are all about. In short, it's a blog series posted every two weeks with an overview of updates regarding the platform, going from public-facing bug fixes, experiments that are being held, and product releases. It's a good place to be to stay up-to-date about what's happening on the platform. If you have questions or remarks about anything mentioned in the blog or a specific thing you're experiencing, don't hesitate to speak up in the comments about. With th…
Technical Updates: November 1, 2024
Hello hello! We're starting to near the end of 2024, which means there are only a few tech blogs left to share with you all. If you're new to this bi-weekly series, hi, hello, welcome, we love to have you! This is the place-to-be to check in on the technical updates of this platform. We'll cover a selection of user-facing bug releases that happened the past two weeks, as well as an overview of relevant experiments and changes to the platform. As always, if there's something you're encountering, do not hesitate to report on it in the comments. Alright, let's go over what happened these last two weeks.
- 1 Notable Changes
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Fixes in Development
- 4 Development Updates
- 4.1 Data Engineering
- 4.2 Platform team
- 4.3 User Experience (UXFCP) Team
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Technical Updates: October 18, 2024
Hiya lovelies! It's been another two weeks with lots that happened behind the scenes. As we're nearing the end of the year, the teams get busy building a roadmap for what we'll be doing next year. Every two weeks, we post these tech updates blogs to inform you all about a selection of public bug fixes that we tackled, as well as some ongoing or upcoming experiments and platform wide changes. If there is an issue you're encountering still, don't hesitate to sound off in the comments about it. Today is no different, so let's dive in!
- 1 Recent Fixes
- 2 Fixes in Development
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 Engagement
- Several issues relating to syntax highlighting (misalignment) in the 2017 VisualEditor - Source mode editor have been fixed:
- Incorrect line height…
Technical Updates: October 4, 2024
Eyo lovely people, and welcome to October already! This month does not only mark the start of the spooky season, but also the start of the last quarter of the year! As usual, I will be taking you through a selection of changes that happened since the last Tech Blog two weeks ago. You can expect some noticeable bug changes, potential experiment announcements, and even platform-wide noticeable changes that happened since. If you have questions or suggestions about anything technical related, the comment section is always a good place to reach out. So let's see what happened this time!
- 1 Notable Changes
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 Engagement
- 3.2 Monetization
- 3.3 Platform team
- 3.4 User Experience (UX) Team
- 3.5 User Generated Content (UGC) team
The…
Technical Updates: September 20, 2024
Hiya lovelies! I hope September has been treating you well. As those of you who've been following our Technical Updates series already know, this will be the second of two update blogs this month. If you're now here, this is the place to be in case you'd like to get a quick overview of what's been happening on the platform. I'll be sharing a selection of bug tickets that have been fixed between the previous tech blog and now, as well as inform you about general changes and experiments we may be or will be running. The comment section remains a good place for you to let us know if you're encountering a certain issue (in which case, please share some links and ideally even a video or screenshot about what the issue is) or if you have general…
Technical Updates: August 23, 2024
Eyo! Another two weeks have gone, another technical update blog gets published, the last one of August already! For those new to the series, that's how it goes: every two weeks we'll post a technical update blog in which we'll share some of the changes that users may see affecting the platform, some bug fixes, things that are in the works, running or upcoming experiments etc. This is also another great way to share feedback on some of the experiments, but please remember that love or hate it, tell us why, so the actionable feedback can be relayed to the relevant team. Alright, let's see what happened the past two weeks!
- 1 Notable Changes
- 2 Recent Fixes
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 Platform team
- 3.2 User Experience (UX) Team
- 3.3 User Generated Content (UG…
Technical Updates: August 9, 2024
Hiya, lovely people! In this first of two blogs of August, spaced two weeks apart, I'll walk you through some of the more public-facing bug fixes, platform changes, and experiments that may be ongoing or will be upcoming. The comment section is also an excellent opportunity to ask questions or raise awareness about something that's on your mind regarding Fandom. Remember that when you're reporting something to include a link to where you're experiencing the issue, a screenshot if it is something visible, as well as steps to reproduce your issue. With all that said, let's dive in!
- 1 Recent Fixes
- 2 Fixes in Development
- 3 Development Updates
- 3.1 Engagement
- 3.2 Monetization
- 3.3 User Experience (UX) Team
- 3.4 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
- The category and …
Technical Updates: July 26, 2024
Hey hey, we're halfway through the Summer months already, and the last week of July also brings the second Technical Updates blog of July. With this blog series we aim to inform you about some of the bugs that have been fixed the past 2 weeks, experiments we are running or are about to run, and other general platform changes we may have made. The comment section also gives you another platform to reach out to us with questions or concerns.
- Having tested and retested it, both with and without the help of several helpful communities, the CodeMirror update is being rolled out to all wikis. This extension provides the syntax highlighting in MediaWiki's wikitext editor. Those using the 2010 source editor will notice some changes in the layout as …