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DK6 Week 3: End of Week Tech Update [1]

['Allison Mchenry', 'View Profile']

Date: 2026-05-01  

The Current Work List

Update styling for pull quote blocks (get rid of gray background, make it nicer in general)

Migrating groups that were missed

Redirect m.dailykos.com -> www.dailykos.com

Update comment thread styling

Embedding a YouTube Short video causes a gigantic amount of white space to be added around it

Changing the error message users see when they can’t vote on a poll

The Fix List

Replace the “phallic” cover photo with an alternate option (4/27/2026)

Restore timestamps to home page stories (4/27/2026)

Spam control (4/27/2026)

Images users have uploaded not showing up under “mine” (4/27/2026)

Daily Kos staff authors not showing up in the byline box in the story editor (4/27/2026)

Add missing redirect from https://www.dailykos.com/blog/main to https://www.dailykos.com/blogs/main (4/28/2026)

Add some more analytics to the comment error message and make it take longer to display (4/28/2026)

Viafoura comments not loading, initial fix (4/28/2026)

prevent users from applying the tags #recommended, #rescued and #trending themselves (4/29/2026)

Replace stale “Top Staff Stories” widget with “Active Discussions” (4/29/2026)

Fix for users getting logged out when trying to comment, part 1 (4/29/2026)

Restore user’s site subscriber access automatically if their card is declined and then succeeds (4/29/2026)

Do not allow users to publish posts without a title (4/30/2026)

Get rid of the “Archive” title on pages that have lists of stories, and the old home page (4/30/2026)

Make the disclaimer text above the comment section more welcoming (4/30/2026)

Second fix for people not staying logged in (4/30/2026)

Get rid of the italics in pull quotes (this will look better shortly) (4/30/2026)

Thank you all for your help with researching the “Server Error” on the polls and the grayed out POST button that some users were seeing on Safari. It turns out that both of these issues were caused by privacy settings.

Server Error When Voting On Polls

This is apparently a known issue with this polling plug-in — it’s been a problem for nearly five years. It’s caused by the privacy settings in your browser. The only reason that cookies are used by the poll is to track if someone’s already voted, if the poll owner has set it to allow voting only once, so this should never have been added to “tracking” lists in the first place, but trying to reach a human who works on this software also seems to be impossible. We are going to try to intercept this error and make it more descriptive so at least people know why it’s happening, but the bottom line is that if voting on that particular poll is important to you and you’re seeing this error, the only way to fix it is by disabling ad blockers/privacy settings.

Post Button Grayed Out In Safari

This fix is also privacy setting-related. In Safari, if you go to Settings -> Privacy -> Advanced, you will see a checkbox: “Use advanced tracking and fingerprinting protection”. That box needs to be un-checked in order for the POST button to work.

I do understand that people have privacy settings for a reason, this is just practical information about how to fix these problems if you’re seeing them.



Thank you for your help this week — even when we can’t “solve” problems ourselves, at least knowing what is happening is helpful.

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