Indymedia Scotland site upgraded

Indymedia Scotland has finally been upgraded. We are now using the open source Drupal content management system.

It would be greatly appreciated if people would report bugs, odd behaviour, suggestions and other stuff regarding the new site to Indymedia Scotland technical people.

Post bug reports and suggestions to this article as comments.

Comments

Re: Indymedia Scotland site upgraded

By CH

Well I was going to email these but open process FTW:

 

  •  when adding an event (maybe elsewhere), Previewing requires the captcha, OK. But it's not possible to go from the Preview to Publishing by just clicking Save, a new captcha has to be solved.
    Suggest: should only have 1 captcha to be answered.
  • It's not clear where to click to view comments on a story. Suggest: Change text to "View X comments" instead of "X comments" (in
    "..?showcomments#comments")
  • Is it possible to add Categories in the Create Article page? I've felt
    for a while we need a "Science & Technology" type option
     

 

Re: Indymedia Scotland site upgraded

By TomM

wysiwyg editor - firefox scrolls like crazy when you hit return while editing a post...

Re: Indymedia Scotland site upgraded

By Anonymous

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suggestions and bugs

By Makhno

  • the tick box to make something a front page feature turns itself off if the page is reloaded, for example if you attach something
  • the method of making features is clumsy at the moment, perhaps a seperate publishing form rather than a tick box would be best.
  • make only news be present in the top area
  • inserting pictures is very buggy if the image caption is used
  • updating the time stamp would be very handy
  • a razorwire style affair for urgent stuff
  • there should be a note explaining how to add more than one category, i.e. ctrl click
  • i think the left and right columns should be a different colour from the main body, perhaps grey to fit the colour scheme?
  • revision information should be perhaps hidden from non editors, or perhaps everyone, so that it needs to be clicked on to bring up the box: it may be confusing or whatever for some users.
  • perhaps a 'see older articles' button at the base of the newswire? i know that i always look at the bottom to click to see older ones and im sure others will do the same.
  • a mass upload method for adding lots of photos would be groovy.
  • a seperate category for photos/media might be good, with a column for it in the body of the site.
  • a large and obvious 'publish your news' button would be very good.
  • automatic cutting for comments should be disabled.

 

EPIC WIN!

By Anonymous

FTW :) i like that.

Re: Indymedia Scotland site upgraded

By Fabbri

I think we should have those cute little icons beside articles in the newswire saying wether they have media, and what type.

 

Also, thumbnails beside articles like Bristol would be cool.

 

A big publish your news button. This'll make it clearer to people that thats the point.

 

Re: Indymedia Scotland site upgraded

By Anonymous

I can't publish my article.  I get the following error when I try to add an image to attach an image to the article.  If poss, could you email alanflemingaberdeen@yahoo.co.uk when this is fixed so I can retry to publish.  Many thanks - new website looks good!

The error is:

The selected file apr15_aber1.jpg could not be uploaded. The file is 47.76 KB which would exceed your disk quota of 1000 MB.

Re: Indymedia Scotland site upgraded

By Anonymous

error on starting date of World Lab Animal Day demo. Start at 3:30, 24th of april.

 

Re: Indymedia Scotland site upgraded

By Fabbri

Can we have a "recent comments" page like the old one with a lost of the articles with the most recent comments, when and by who.

Re: cent comments

By CH

Maskedavenger: If you log in and have editor privileges, then on the left you should have a "Moderate Comments" option. That lists comments across the site, most recent first. That might be what you're looking for?

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