Dreamwidth Q&A Session

[denise]

I realized this morning that it has been quite some time, so I figured it would be a good time for another Dreamwidth Q&A session!

Got a question on how the business end of DW works? Curious about the progress on a particular feature? (Although I can probably answer that for you by saying: we're working on paying down our technical debt so that we can move forward on a lot of the planned features; it got to the point where we couldn't progress further without making some aggressive modernization of the existing codebase.) Wondering what an average day in the life of a DW employee is? Got that one question that you've been vaguely wondering about for ages, but never felt like it was "important" enough to make a support request to get the answer on? Want to know if it really is that cool being able to work from home without wearing any pants? (Answer: yes, especially when it's 85 degrees F in my office and the air conditioners won't be delivered and installed for at least another day or two.)

Comment here, and we will answer!

(Just a reminder: you may receive comments or replies from people who know the answer to your question, but aren't officially DW staff. If the person who answers you doesn't have the official "staff" userhead -- -- they are not DW staff. They may be correct -- if they aren't, I will be sure to answer and clear up any misconceptions -- but they are not speaking ex cathedra Dreamwidth, so to speak!)

No question too big, no question too small. There's also previous Q&A sessions and the Business FAQs to browse through!

(Answers may be a bit slow depending on computer woes and additional stuff going on, but we will answer!)

Comments

[meretia]

I saw a fair few people on my reading list and on "latest things" talking about DW developing a "like" button on posts similar to what Facebook has. Is this actually an idea under discussion/development, or is it just one of those rumors that goes around?

[jumpuphigh]

The discussion is happening here: http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/532315.html

[azurelunatic]

For clarification: it's at the dw_suggestions-discussion stage right now, which doesn't mean that there's staff consideration necessarily yet, but staff and developers tend to hang out in there and give commentary on stuff.

Since it's got the 'untagged' tag on it now, and lacks any 'bugzilla: ' status tag, this means that while there may have been private staff discussion elsewhere, there has still been no staff decision made. denise periodically goes through and first accepts or rejects the easy-to-decide ones, then takes some more times and comes back to the ones that are harder to call. (Some are also deferred pending more information or further development.)