What You See Now Much More Like What You'll Get
Today we are launching a number of bug fixes and enhancements to the story editor. For the most part these changes are refinements effecting more advanced uses of the editor. Our design goal for the...
View ArticleNew Daily Kos Feature: Emailed Comment Notifications
Today we are launching email notifications of comment replies. When posting a comment, you will be able to choose if you would like to receive an email notification whenever there is a reply to your...
View ArticleNew Feature: Save Your Story with a Key Command
Quick feature announcement: you can now save your story with a key command. On a mac hit <command s> or on a windows machine hits <ctrl s> and we’ll save your draft to the server. We hope...
View ArticleDaily Kos Design Tweak Tweaks
Some time has passed since our recent software update, and, as with all rollouts, it was also a good moment to receive feedback. We have made adjustments based on feedback, available for preview now on...
View ArticleAnnouncement: Brief Site Downtime 12am-12:30am Pacific Time Sunday Morning
The title pretty much says it all. We’ll be upgrading critical infrastructure. During this time, users will notice actions involving writing to the database including logging in, saving drafts,...
View ArticleThe Other Blue Wave
The accessibility changes mentioned in this story— the new blue and orange brand colors with a more visible contrast ratio— are now live on the site. Thanks to everybody who left feedback, and special...
View ArticleHelp Daily Kos Test a New Front Page
After years of discussion, design and hard work from our developers, Daily Kos is launching a new front page. This story will outline the motivation behind the changes, so you understand why we did...
View ArticleGoodbye Blog. Hello New Daily Kos Front Page
Today, I’m excited to announce that Daily Kos is introducing our new, improved front page to our community and readers. Many of you have been kicking the tires on some early features of our new design...
View ArticleWhat’s Next for the New Front Page
So, we have all lived with the new front page design for some time now. In many ways the front page has hit or exceeded the goals we set for it. We are seeing quite a few more clicks from the new front...
View ArticleA Front Page Design Update, By Popular Request
Recommendation counts, comment counts and publication time have all made their triumphant return to the front page. This was a much requested feature for the new front page, and we hope that this...
View ArticleOnce More, With Feeling: a Second Design Pass at Story List View Pages
Yesterday we switched some of the older list view pages, including the recent list or the diaries page as it’s known to some folk, over to the new story list view layout. This prompted a lot of...
View ArticleUpdate: Second Design Pass at Story List View Pages is Live!
Not too long ago we relaunched the story list view page. There was a lot of feedback on the design, and it became apparent that we had managed to make a number of workflows more difficult. So, we took...
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