h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

1. In the current situation, "dev" stands for development. Any organisation with even the slightest pretension to providing good service will test out new software away from the unsuspecting general public. This is standard good practice - so naturally some organisations or parts of them don't do it! Tick v.g. for h2g2.

2. As I said before, I don't think the new tag has been officially announced anywhere (private or public). However, clearly it has arrived with the other changes anyway. It has to be up to the italics to explain the lack of a mention in post 1. It could have been an unintentional port or perhaps it never occurred to them that the majority wouldn't already know about it (people often get these blind spots about things which are obvious or well-known to themselves).

3. I don't know. The slightly longer answer is to wait for one of the usual suspects (eg in the bugfinders group) to run into something fun and decide to share it. Spying on the activities of italics (the visible ones and the undercover ones) is sometimes interesting.

After all that restricted info I'd better not stick around to get lynched!

yeah, well i have been feeling like i've stumbled into the morning tea room of an h2g2 secret society.

the more you answer my questions, the more questions arise. thanks for taking the time though.

i will take up your suggestion - i can see some serious spying is in order...

*pops in with and *

h2g2 secret society? I just serve the ...

...but it pays to keep an ear open

Has anyone actually logged out to notice the new "are you sure" warning? [ie another change not mentioned at the start of this announcement]

Are you sure it's new to this update? I vaguely remember it being discussed after the previous update...?

SEF, err... the logout confirmation box is mentioned in the second sentence of post 1

Ah, OK - I guess the discussion I remember was asking why it hadn't happened yet, then...

* tries to put worms back in can *

That 's brilliant. I went to your space pheloxi and got a terrible shock.
How does one use it?

You just insert the tag anywhere you like in the code on your page, just like you would with a smiley. It seems to work everywhere that I've tested it

hey psst! look here A853292

Yes sorry GD (et al). I went back to the beginning and read it again before I posted but somehow only focused on the mention of logout links to other skins.

I tested the Friends thing yesterday and it didn't seem to work. So I suppose it would be safe to mention that change now - except there's nothing for anyone to see!

I haven't tested the only bespeak when bespoken to aspect though (as that would require a new ID).

PS Sorry, Kea, I _am_ deliberately talking in code this time.

Thanks Grey. 'tis wonderful! I went off to experiment as soon as I'd asked the question and I've only just got back The tag was fine - it was all the other stuff that caused the problems.
"Bad closing element"

I see you've got it working now

I did try to answer the questions...

From <./>Aces-Why</.> (although it appears in all the Volunteer Groups "Why" pages): "We're constantly developing future versions of h2g2, and every time a new release goes up on our test site, we will let you ... play with and comment on what we're adding to the site." - the dev server is this test site.

While *cough* fiddling around on it, I came across the new tag, which wasn't officially announced anywhere on either the test site or the live site.

> What worries me is that Rho has time to look through the recently created articles on the dev server and dig out little secrets like that... wouldn't it be better used writing guide entries?

...but causing the tag to become widely known on the live site, inducing mass paranoia, is surely worth it!

RhoMuNuQ

Careful not to spill the beans on stuff from the dev server; it could land you in all kinds of trouble with TPTB...

Whoami?

I haven't said any more about the Dev server than TPTB in <./>Aces-Why</.> and F48000?thread=230970#p2727632

is also already on the live site just now, so it's not revealing a new feature that might be removed, causing disappointment...

RhoMuNuQ

It's possible could be removed though...

Why would they want to?

It's already part of the site and people found out about it before I posted anything to this thread.

RhoMuNuQ