* Activate negative-result caching for HardCache chain
* begin migration to pylibmc:
* Add pylibmc to the list of required packages in preparation for the replacement of the memcached library
* Start using pylibmc for the rendercaches
* Tweak the computation of the normalized hot page to be a bit faster when the precomputer is available, by relying on the precomputer's internal permacached structure.
* Default to a SelfEmptyingCache for scripts run from `paster run'. Note that processes that run forever are still responsible for resetting their local-caches, but this can now be done with g.reset_caches()
* threaded messaging patch part 1: backend changes only. This will allow migrate.py to be run to move new onto inbox and will start tracking message trees for users.
* Specify some queries to run at most once per day
* Refactored safemarkdown() and added soup testing
Additions:
* Added _byID_rel()
* Made error messages more verbose for:
1. byID lookups of too-big thing_ids
2. memcache failures
3. Solr Nones
* Award._all_awards() now sorts by date
* Trophy.by_{account,award}() now cache properly
* new feedback page with helpful links
* Try to reduce the length of the query-queue by not adding known-long queries at all, rather than adding them and skipping them
* whitespace clean up
* simplify the 'why did my CC get denied' email checking.
* added missing translation strings and users now get PMs when they are added as translators
Bugfixes:
* Fix a bug in unsaving
* BeautifulSoup stopped hosting 3.0.7a, but 3.0.8 still uses the good parser
* Better search error handling
* Properly reset the cache-chains (incl. the hardcache; d'oh!) per-request
* Fix an attribute error on listings where some items have author_ids and some don't
* Bug when forcing recalculation of memoized functions
* the subreddit creation and edit form aren't dealing with errors properly
* buttons fix
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- add confidence sorting to comments
* common values are precomputed for speedier response
* best is made the default sort on comment pages
- messages will now be delivered once one is moderator/contributor/banned
- UI updates to messaging page, including added show parent functionality to messages
- Remove the rate-limit on comments on your own self-posts
- Give users some leeway in editing their comments: don't show an edit star if the edit is within the first few minutes of a comment's lifetime
- Office Assistant will help users when they write to admins
Backend
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- Replace the postgres-based query_queue with an AMQP based one
* Set up amqp queues for async tasks such as search updates and the scrapers
* service monitor updates, adding queue-tracking support
- Allow find_recent_broken_things to specify both from_time and to_time
- add a ini file parameter to disallow db writes (to create read-only reddit instances for crawlers)
New features
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- self-serve advertisement:
* complete overhaul of sponsored link code
* functions for talking with authorize.net
* added pay domain and https support
* added ability to share traffic from sponsored links
* auto-reject promotions that are too old and unpaid for
- awards
- allow widget to have its links to have a target (in case it is iframed)
- automatic_reddits:
* Don't show automatic_reddits in the horizontal topbar
- Listing numbers are always in order with no gaps
- add support for sprites for common (r2.lib.contrib.nymph)
Admin
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- added a takedown page for dealing with DMCA requests properly
* status code 404 on takedown pages
* JSON returns same string as in the explanation text
* nofollow on markdown in explanation
* title and image optional
- Added /c/(comment_id) for admins
- updates to JS to rate-limit voting, commenting, and anything else that could be just as easily done by a script-kiddie to cheat.
- make ad frame dynamic and add tracking pixel
- add the ability to add a sponsored banner to the rightbox of a reddit
- add the ability to show custom css on cnamed and/or non-cnamed versions of a reddit
- allow us to ignore reports from report-spammers.
Bugfixes
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- Fix sorting of duplicate links (patch by Chromakode)
- fix traffic bug on main traffic page when it is the first of the month.
- toolbar redirects to comments page on self posts rather than generating the frame
- half-assed unicode handling in menus giving us bugs again. Switched to the whole-ass approach
- added Thing._byID36
- Support /help/foo/bar
* start showing embedded videos inside of an <iframe>. This allows us to
embed videos from external sites without having to trust their DOM security
Note that the media_object property on new links is now a dictionary,
but old ones will still be strings
the listing for that reddit
2. Allow a reddit to have a custom CSS stylesheet that appears to
visitors
3. Allow a reddit to upload a custom reddit alien logo
