Note: some CFs are explicitly marked for the "main" connection
pool and others are not. This is an artifact of the current
state of reddit.com's cassandra setup and is intentional. While
cassandra_default_pool remains "main", this will not cause an issue
for you.
It was used directly in two places in pages.py, I've
replaced those uses with safemarkdown calls. In the case
of the search fail page, I just removed the javascript
try-again link since it wouldn't be doable through safemarkdown
and that page isn't hit very frequently any more anyway.
Had to convert the three special thumbnail images
to 32-bit PNGs rather than PNG8 with indexed alpha
since PIL does not support the latter. ImageMagick was
awesome for this.
Login UI code has been simplified and moved into the client side. CORS
is used for the cross-domain POST if available, otherwise an iframe and
cookie polling technique is used. Start fleshing out the new JS tree. :)
We need onload to be able to get a client-IP based
tracking validation hash, but it doesn't actually need
to do any database work to make those hashes. It also
fails a huge number of times per day. This moves the hash
calculation out to an external app with no db dependencies.
Flair is a new relation between subreddits and accounts (stored in a manner
similar to but distinct from subreddit membership). This relation can have
a text field and a CSS class name associated with it (this data is actually
stored under the account). The flair data is then incorporated into any
mention of the account within the context of the subreddit (namely, on links
and comments submitted by the user).
* Show "this post is archived" message for things we won't allow votes on.
* Don't mark messages read when pulled via RSS
* Make compact (smartphone) interface respect user's toolbar
* preferences.
* Make mobile interface more friendly for kindles.
* Fix bug that caused comment tree corruption.
* Use cachebuster on traffic pixel for more accurate tracking.
* Make apps restart themselves after a configurable number of requests.
* Move to pycassa 1.0.8.
* Fix bug in calculations for "best" sort.
* Fixes for Firefox Mobile
* Add a global flag to disable editing of the wiki.
* Move the child-comment collapse button to the left.
* Updated list of disallows in robots.txt to save needless hits from
crawlers.
* Fix vote_q by splitting it into vote_link_q and vote_comment_q.
* Fix bug where /reddits crashes due to 'promos' subreddit.
* Upgrade discount to 1.6.8
* Start reading Votes, Saves, and Hides from Cassandra (while still dual-writing all three)
* Some XSS fixes
* Significant Gold buying and gifting improvements
- Move /api/ipn to /ipn
* Allow non-US countries to buy sponsored links
* Increase embed.ly scope
* redd.it support
* Allow postgres port number to be specified in ini file (this changes the format of the .ini file)
* Upgrade Cassandra to 0.7
- Change g.urlcache to LinksByURL
- Translate storage-conf.xml to cassandra.yaml
- TTL support (and enable on Hides)
- Move permacache keyspace to inside reddit keyspace
* The stalecache: a local memcached that contains slightly old information to speed up some lookups
* Switch to patched Paste that is hopefully download.gz-proof
* Don't store votes on things > 30 days old
* Many many bugfixes/small features
* Add a new Cassandra CF for comment-sort caching
* Add JSONP support
* Support non-auto-renewing PayPal IPNs
* Gold accounting
* Gold features: comments tracking, larger comment limit
* Autorenewing gold
* Google checkout support
* Profile-page sorting for all
* Title-text on the logo
* Hardcache sharding and profiling
* Self serve enhancements
* Add /r/foo/faq
* Make self-centred reddits allow for more verbose selftext
* Much better down-handling of databases
* Add the ability to take a thread-dump from a running process
* Remove the comscore tracker
* Add comments to modqueue (does not back-populate)
* Use Flaptor's Indextank product for search, including santip's patch
* for their new API
* Add Cassandra ConsistencyLevels to the ini file, and storage-conf.xml
* to the public repo
* Patch contributed by umbrae in ticket #929: Add jumpToContent support
* for Keyboard Accessibility
* reddit gold
- paypal/postcard support
- friends with benefits
- profile-page sorting for gold members
- move domain listings into the permacache
====
* Uninstall the python Cassandra package that we previously depended on (it has a namespace conflict with the new package we depend on). To find it:
$ python -c "import cassandra; print cassandra.__file__"
and rm -r the .egg directory after "site-packages/"
* This version relies on cython, so if "make" fails, you may have to install cython via your distro's package manager.
$ cd reddit/r2
$ python setup.py develop # possibly with "sudo" depending on your install
$ make
* Cassandra is now required for the caching layer. An example storage-conf.xml can be found in reddit/srv/cassandra. Make sure that the additional <Keyspace> items are included in your conf file.
* remove the query_queue_reader services if they are running. add new gen_time_listings.sh instead. Suggested cron:
0 */2 * * * $SCRIPTS/gen_time_listings.sh year '("month","year")'
*/5 * * * * $SCRIPTS/gen_time_listings.sh week '("day","week")'
* * * * * $SCRIPTS/gen_time_listings.sh hour '("hour",)'
where $SCRIPTS is the location of this script directory
Features and Bugfixes
====
* Mobile reddit:
* templates are in r2/templates of the form *.compact
* css is r2/public/static/css/compact.css
* beginning of a sass-based (http://sass-lang.com/) compact.scss
* reachable via .compact extension or from the "i" subdomain.
* Cassandra is now *required*, and votes are currently written out to both cassandra and postgres (part of an eventual migration).
* attempt to make the db connection code a little smarter.
* A dropped DB connection will mark the connection dead and randomly attempt to reconnect.
* A dropped db connection on start will permanently mark the connection as dead.
* Calculate the time-filtered top/controversy listings using mapreduce instead of prec_links (new cron job in reddit/scripts)
* allow default user/pass for database to be specified with '*' to fallback on db_user and db_pass in the INI file
* Search feedback buttons
* make deleted comments not show up in your inbox.
* move last_visited into cassandra
* Swallow rare, race-conditiony POST_save/hide/subscribe problems
* Apparently we haven't been breaking properly for the past few weeks.
* The error pages have been broken for the past week.
* Fix /r/all+all
* Provides about.json to the api for subreddits (it already works for users)
* Make sure Accounts have data before checking their name and msgtime
* new bigger arrows for mobile site and a the alien is fingerless now
* Try to update the _fast_query_timestamps less often to alleviate some of the load it causes on the Accounts DB
* Swallow rare, race-conditiony POST_save/hide/subscribe problems
