* 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
* 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
* Two new 404 aliens
* enable a comment page cache if the user isn't author of any of the comments and the page is a non-permalink. votes and friends are updated by javascript
Additions
* descriptive example.ini
* create "trusted_sponsor" who get auto-accepted
* split off url cache from the permacache, with major clean-up to app_globals
* Move is_banned_domain() call into POST_submit() so it can take the sanitized url
* Redirect /r/asdfasdfasdf to the search page, not the create page.
* updates to draw_load.py
* orangered envelope goes to unread, not all.
* Remove "enable whitelisting" checkbox, and switch to new failiens
* Put verification link on email prefs page
Bugfixes:
* split off a minimal api controller for onload calls (which don't care about c.site or c.user, making them cheaper)
* Assume admins want to keep their cookies forever just like everyone else
* /randomrising bugfix
* JSON error page was rendering in html. it now returns "{ error: ${code} }"
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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
