Scheduled Daily Kos downtime late Wednesday evening
We’re planning some downtime for scheduled maintenance on the Daily Kos servers Wednesday evening/Thursday morning starting at 12 am PT/ 3 am ET Thursday morning 10/7/21. We expect the outage to last...
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Upcoming changes to comments and stories
Last month, I talked a bit about changes coming to comments. I won’t repeat myself here, except to say that the new layout goes with a change to the story page with the intent to meet these goals: Make...
View ArticleUpdates on Daily Kos comments
A little while back, I announced several changes coming to comments and stories. One of those changes is coming today — people who had chosen to stay with an old comment version that we last used in...
View ArticleNew user pages at Daily Kos
The user pages at Daily Kos have been rebuilt, as last discussed here.We’ve been accepting feedback, and made many changes based on requests. Now we’re taking the next step, which is to change the...
View ArticleScheduled downtime late Thursday evening
We’re planning some downtime for scheduled maintenance on the Daily Kos servers Thursday evening/Friday morning starting at 10 pm PT Thursday/ 1 am ET Friday morning 10/11/21. We expect the outage to...
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Please enjoy your new less obtrusive navigation bar
Many of you rightfully complained about the navigation on narrow screens taking up too much vertical space. Now once you begin to scroll, it will take only a single line, and with that single line...
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Community Spotlight is back on the front page and in nav
Community Spotlight’s mission is to ensure that the best stories from the Daily Kos Community aren’t overlooked. This group of volunteers has been reading every story on Daily Kos and rescuing stories...
View ArticlePlanned downtime for the wee hours of Wednesday morning
We’re planning downtime for scheduled maintenance on the Daily Kos servers Wednesday morning starting at 3 AM PT/6AM ET, January 5. We expect the outage to last about an hour.You can see updates if...
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Some updates to comment styles
We’ve been working on several small changes in the styling on comments lately. Most of these are subtle cleanups to better handle the displays on narrower screens, for those of you who have such...
View ArticleUpdate my stinkin' badges, kos!
The news just keeps coming, and there’s barely a moment to breathe sometimes. Except for tech news, which has been oddly quiet. Maybe we couldn’t get a word in edgewise, maybe we have been heads-down...
View ArticleHelp me understand why some people never recommend stories
I have a particular puzzle, and I’d like some community help in solving it.I collect two particular statistics for the site and have been for years. One is the distinct number of people who have...
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What made you sign up at Daily Kos?
I have been thinking a lot about what motivates people to create an account at Daily Kos. For many of our users, it’s to write a story that will hopefully be widely read, or to write a comment back to...
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Daily Kos Beta: Let's take this new mobile edition out for a test spin
The old m-dot version has a lot of super pale grey that is hard to read even if you have excellent vision, but completely unreadable for some.Currently, if you come to Daily Kos on a mobile device, you...
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Tell me how you use Daily Kos on a phone (if you do)
The old mobile site is soon to be retired, and replaced with shiny new code that should be more useable, more readable, more accessible, and also give access to more regular Daily Kos features.On...
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Our new Daily Kos mobile version is coming soon! Here's how you can preview it.
The old m-dot version has a lot of super pale grey that is hard to read even if you have excellent vision, but completely unreadable for some.Currently, if you come to Daily Kos on a mobile device, you...
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Welcome to the new Daily Kos on mobile
The new version is clearer in its styling and with a darker typeface to make it easier to read.If you’re viewing Daily Kos on a phone (or set your browser to mimic a phone), you’re seeing something a...
View ArticleUpdates to updating a story: time traveler edition
UPDATE: Wednesday, Oct 12, 2022 · 10:46:45 PM +00:00·elflingUpdates are now updating! Please enjoy this kitten video. x"Was just going to push this off the table when... sorcery!"🤣...
View ArticleHelp me with my California Ballot
As always, the California ballot contains not only the obvious choices like the statewide offices and legislators, but also a set of propositions and judges where I need to do my homework. Everyone can...
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Updating the updates
UPDATE: Thursday, Oct 27, 2022 · 4:20:12 PM +00:00·elflingThe gate! Yes, the gate is open! may the daily chaos ensue UPDATE: Thursday, Oct 27, 2022 · 4:18:43 PM +00:00·elflingAt last! The soft squeal...
View ArticleMy Vote Forward letters are prepared - GOTV!
Saturday, October 29th is Mailing Day for Vote Forward — a campaign that reminds voters about election day through personalized, handwritten letters.Calling people on telephones is not my thing, and...
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