Beta Testing

Warning: Many features are not yet implemented in beta mode! Prepare for things to be broken!

Beta Toggle Page

The Dreamwidth Beta page will let you switch back and forth between regular site function (beta test is OFF) and beta features (beta test is ON). This page was rolled out in the 2011-03-29 code push.

Changes and Issues

Known Issues has a list of issues the site knows about.

The code status page keeps a list of changelog checkins, aka patches that have been applied to the codebase, along with whether or not they're "live" on the current site yet. This way, if you're reporting a bug, you can see whether or not there's any patches that have been checked into the source tree, but aren't yet live on the site, that might affect or fix that bug.

Note the "Beta tester mode" patches in particular.

Code tours go through recently added items and explain what they do.

Importing

This page will let you start an import job. Now with community imports!

Styles

Please see dw_styles for the latest and greatest news on all official matters stylish.

You can also make an ad hoc style from ivorygates' tutorial or phoenix's tutorial.

Example Content

These communities and users helped provide initial testing when the site was in very early beta, on the beta servers that had no backup. Thank you for your contributions and time.

Communities

For non-DW centered communities, see Community List.

Official

• dw_beta -- "A community where test logs will be posted; comments with suggestions for additional notes, additional screenshots, or contrary observations welcome."
• dw_news -- "This is the news journal for Dreamwidth Studios. You'll see staff members posting about what we're up to."
• dw_volunteers -- "This is where we'll post volunteer opportunities, and provide important information to existing volunteers. Membership is restricted to existing volunteers, but anyone can watch the community for volunteer information."
• dw_lounge -- "This is the "staff lounge" for Dreamwidth Studios, where we'll post about ourselves and the projects we're working on and let you get to know us. Feel free to watch the community for updates!"
• dw_styles -- Watch this community for information about styles!
• dw_maintenance -- Information on scheduled and unscheduled maintenance.
• dw_docs -- Documentation community.
• dw_dev -- For Dreamwidth development.
• changelog -- Logs all changes made to Dreamwidth repositories.
• dw_coolhunters -- Center for cool hunting
• dw_suggestions -- Suggestions community; not running yet.
• dw_codesharing -- For sharing invite codes.

Other

Dubious officiality, but very DW specific:

• chatterbox -- For testing community things like making posts.
• 404 -- For submitting fun 404 pages.
• translation_die_die_die -- Because people hate the translation interface.
• memewidth -- For planning eventual tools and memes that work with Dreamwidth.
• dreamchasers -- "Dreamchasers is a place that can help you connect with your friends from other online services on Dreamwidth. Please feel free to post your other online identity/identities and mention if there's anyone in particular that you're looking for on Dreamwidth. Dreamchasers is also a place where you can discuss migrating from other services and about joining the Dreamwidth community."

Staff accounts

• denise
• mark

Beta testing accounts

• afuna
• ai
• beckyzoole
• dani_the_girl
• dodificus
• domtheknight -- Head of beta testing
• elfgirl
• euphemia
• forthwritten
• foxfirefey
• grammarwoman
• highlander_ii
• invisionary
• japester
• jd
• kaisa
• katieintheworld
• lacey
• mrflagg
• phoenixsong
• scott
• shann
• smc1255
• urbanoceanix
• zarch
• zelda
• zvi

Old mailing list

The mailing list for testers was: DW Testing.