This quick update aims to address some, but certainly not all, of the smaller concerns that we've been seeing.
- the title field when submitting a post is now a textarea
- textareas now auto-expand in height as necessary
- Twitter embeds will now respect your theme (dark mode users will see a dark embed)
- removed captchas for new users (previously, very new users would have to complete a reCAPTCHA before submitting posts and comments)
- added an error message if saving an edit fails, rather than loading forever
- fixed an issue where "continue reading thread?" would sometimes appear when there are no further comments
- reduced requirements for long term users with regards to the "recently joined" handshake flag.
- original revision in edit history will show as having 1 score rather than its score immediately prior to being edited
- added new rate limits for login attempts
- added robots.txt
Additionally, we've reset all save folders that had been renamed to "" (nothing) so that they are accessible again.
Any plans to update the algorithm (I assume) which controls the flow of posts from new to rising to hot?
I feel like there is somewhat of a "dead zone" between rising and hot, where once something ascends thru rising, it disappears somewhere above rising, but WAY below hot in a no man's land where it is very difficult to continue an upward climb.
Reddit seemed to do a good job moving a popular rising post right in to the heart of hot. As it stands, it seems like a large majority of posts occupying hot are ones which have been previously stickied.