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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2009-05-09 11:58 pm
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code update

We just did a rather large code update, with something like 50 separate commits... that's a lot. This should fix a lot of issues we've been seeing.

As always, if you run into anything, please let us know! You're welcome to comment here, or open a support request to get some help.

Thank you!
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[personal profile] rosefox 2009-05-10 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much for letting us unpaid users add an S2 style! My eyes were starting to bleed.

Having said that, the style that compiles cleanly on LJ had a few hiccups over here. While I was working on fixing them, I clicked the "Documentation" link on the style edit page:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/doc/s2

It takes me to an empty directory listing. I suspect that's not what you intended. I did eventually fix the style bugs with a bit of tweaking and one outright paste-in-the-HTML workaround, so I'm happy with that!
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[personal profile] liv 2009-05-10 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
We're redoing the docs from scratch, because the ones on LJ are just awful. Right now, having no docs at all is worse than having bad documentation, but several people are working on creating some actually useful documentation for the S2 system.
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[personal profile] rosefox 2009-05-10 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't the "no docs at all" part; it was the "lack of 404/placeholder" part. I think letting people visit your directories is a security risk.
mark: A photo of Mark kneeling on top of the Taal Volcano in the Philippines. It was a long hike. (Default)

[staff profile] mark 2009-05-10 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Hiding directory contents implies you're betting on security through obscurity, which is not security at all.

I'm totally agreed with you that we should put up index/empty pages so directory contents aren't listed, but that's mostly to prevent confusion when someone lands there, not for any security reasons.
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