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

[matgb]

From a different perspective, if you have an idea you can scan when you go to post it to see if it'[s obviously there, but between Denise and a few others we're pretty good at duplicate spotting.

Listing all suggestions separately in some way would be a time consuming PITA--the ones we've agreed are in Bugzilla already, all of them are in the Comm. Might be good to figure out exclusionary tag searches for it, but...

[tyger]

Yeah, but it would be a waste of your time, and asl;gjkl; no. (My brain! It does not always follow Earth Logic!)

Really? *goes and pokes archive view* ...huh! There's at least one most days! Wow, I had no idea it was so massive.

[matgb]

There are many many things that actually are a waste of time. If you make a reasonable attempt to see if it's been suggested (broadly, there's a tag for most main areas), and you can't see it, then submit it.

(I actually have the same reaction with doctors, I don't want to waste their time with minor problems, I've been told my 'minor cold I can't shift' is probably chronic sinusitis that could be cured quickly, so I know exactly what you mean).

And yeah, lots of suggestions, people submit regularly, but the queue is only released when Denise remembers, I have it on a separate reading filter as the day she does remember can be, well, a bit swamping...

[tyger]

I will try to remember this! >:

(Oh, geez, doctors. As long as I can get to places I absolutely have to go, am mostly coherent, and can keep down food I AM FINE. If none of those are true but it's been less than, Iono, a week I'LL BE RIGHT. >:
Luckily I'm healthy enough this works. I think my two bouts of ~mystery illness~ as a child are now paying off.
But yeah, I totally understand you on that.)

I can see how it would be! (And yet so many potential shinies...)

[denise]

Really, don't feel bad! I'm pretty good at remembering wht's been suggested already, and when I mess up and let a duplicate through, people are usually fairly quick to call me on it. It's not a waste of time at all -- I'd much rather have a duplicate than have a suggestion not submitted.

[tyger]

I'll try and remember that, then! ^^;;;