Technical Update: July 3, 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's release is a quieter one, partly due to the Independence Day celebrations in the US. Wherever you are in the world, we hope you're having a good day!
Recent mobile app updates are listed on Apps Technical Updates, and detailed site CSS-related updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net
- Those who watch our code changes closely may notice we are doing a bit of spring cleaning - however, these changes should not have any user-facing impact. Of course, if you spot any …
Technical Update: June 28, 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.
- IPv6 support is now live! This means you will start seeing some longer IPv6 IPs in place of IPv4 IPs for anonymous users - however, they will behave much the same. If you spot any problems, please let us know!
- We will fix an issue that could prevent existing accounts with a colon (":") in their name from logging in. (Note: this character is not allowed in new account names.)
- We recently fixed an issue that was causing the wikis in the 'Discover New Wikis' footer section to fail to up…
Technical Update: June 21, 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.
- A variety of bug fixes and improvements for the page header area will go live, including:
- Fixing italics support for the DISPLAYTITLE magic word.
- Adding missing breadcrumb links on Message Wall pages.
- Removing duplicate "redirected from" notices on blog pages.
- Hiding the Explore menu's "Videos" link on wikis where Special:Videos is not available.
- Adding the interlanguage links dropdown to blog posts.
- Fixing a category display issue on French-language wikis.
- A couple of fixes for Chat will…
Technical Update: June 7, 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
- We will fix an issue where a user could be sent to the wrong location after logging in via Discussions.
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: May 31, 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
- When linking to a site in Discussions that has no primary image defined in its metadata, we will search the linked page for an appropriate image to use.
- We recently made some tweaks to improve the behavior of AllUsers API queries.
Questions? Comments? Feel free to leave them below. And if you have additional bugs to report, please send them to u…