Technical Update: September 27, 2017
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.
Recent mobile app updates are listed on Apps Technical Updates, and detailed site CSS-related updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net
- If a community's main page is outside the main namespace, the wiki's wordmark and logo will no longer link to 'Main Page' instead of the correct page. (Previously noted, but additional fixes will be applied.)
- We will fix an issue that could result in unintended Forum watchlist notifications.
- We will fix an issue where using the deprecated 'counte…
Technical Update: September 6, 2017
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.
- The revamped "Fan Feed" arrives on non-English wikis and will surface a variety of related wiki content and Discussions posts at the bottom of article pages.
Recent mobile app updates are listed on Apps Technical Updates, and detailed site CSS-related updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net
- We will introduce a new style for banner notifications, which are the messages typically seen displayed across the top of the site.
Questions? Comments? Feel free to leave them below. And i…
Technical Update: September 4, 2017
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.
Note: Today is a quiet update, as a result of the recent US holiday weekend. If you had some time off, we hope you enjoyed yourself!
- A fix was issued for broken YouTube video uploads.
Questions? Comments? Feel free to leave them below. And if you have additional bugs to report, please send them to us via Special:Contact.
Technical Update: August 23, 2017
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.
While tomorrow will be a quiet release, next week we will be experimenting with a daily release schedule, meaning a site update will be released every day, from Monday (August 28) to Friday (September 1).
To facilitate this, since each update will be comparatively smaller than the current twice-weekly releases, we will be setting up a forum thread which we'll update each day with any necessary release notes. You can follow that thread here.
After next week, we will return to the norm…
Technical Update: August 16, 2017
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.
- We will fix several issues that were affecting wikis with Semantic MediaWiki enabled, including Special:Images display issues, page deletion issues, and some Monobook problems.
- We will fix an issue where, on wikis with article comments disabled, blog comments were not being shown on the mobile layout.
- An issue that could cause errors on wikis using a shared image repository will be fixed.
Recent mobile app updates are listed on Apps Technical Updates, and detailed site CSS-related upd…