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New: Possible fix for not seeing comments
MurielVieuxThePoet asked ChatGPT for help with why she might not see comments on Daily Kos after she tried all the usual suspects (turning off any ad blockers, restarting, clearing cache/cookies). I’m posting this publicly hoping that it might help other folks, because I never would have thought of it. Her fix is for the Edge…
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DK6, Day 3
We are almost at the end of the first week of DK6. Thank you to everyone who’s stuck around with us through this transition. We are trying to read and keep an eye on what the community is saying throughout the site, but the most effective way to raise issues is by responding in a…
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DK6, Day 2
Yesterday Markos welcomed you to the launch of DK6. As with any change of this magnitude, there were some things that went pretty well, and some things that didn’t. I really appreciate the work of our infrastructure team and partners at WordPress VIP to make sure that the site stayed up. Bugs we have fixed…
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Welcome to your new Daily Kos
After eight months of development—preceded by many more months of planning—we are launching the new Daily Kos.
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Preparing for Site Migration: Notifications
The new Daily Kos will have two systems of notifications that are not integrated right now. Hopefully over time we can unify them, but in the meantime…
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Preparing for Site Migration: Publishing a Story to a Group
One of the most important functions that Groups at Daily Kos serve is to highlight content for their members. If I, as a moderator or administrator of a group…
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Preparing for Site Migration: Managing Group Members As A Group Administrator
You, as a group administrator, will need to manage your group on the new WordPress site. As minos previously noted, not all group functionality will carry over…
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Preparing for Site Migration: Accepting Group Invitations
You have just created your first group on the new Daily Kos. If you look at your group, under the Invite tab, you can see that someone has a Pending Invite.
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Preparing for Site Migration: How To Create A Group
There are a lot of things you might want to do with the new site, and one of them is creating a group. All the existing groups from DK5 will migrate…
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Preparing for site migration: the basics of writing a story on the new site
The transition to DK6 is nearly upon us! Maybe you have been over to the beta site to check it out already, but if you have not, why not go there now?
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Preparing for site migration: community guidelines (Rules of the Road) and moderation update
Hello again, friends! Beta Week is coming to a close, and we thank sincerely all of you who have been playing in the beta sandbox. Your feedback regarding the…
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The End of Beta Week
It’s Friday, and we’re marking the end of beta week. The beta site will come down early next week, probably on Monday. As a reminder, Daily Kos as a whole will…
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Preparing for site migration: the basics of commenting on the new site
Hello again, friends! The beta site is open to all, and we’ll continue to post thematic stories and updates here with information you need to know to ready…
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Daily Kos Beta Day 3! Comment here with feedback!
Hello everyone, we are entering our third day of beta for the new Daily Kos. See the list of work we are aware of (as of yesterday) here. I did want to address…
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Preparing for site migration: changes to community Group features and functionality
Hello again, friends! The beta site is open to all, and we’ll continue to post thematic stories and updates here with information you need to know to ready…
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Public Beta Now Open! Day 2 — Comment Here!
As a reminder, yesterday we opened the public beta for comment, and we really appreciate everyone who took the time to try it out and share their thoughts.
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What You Need to Know about the Site Migration
After months of preparation, the time for migrating to a new platform is almost upon us! We’ve tried to make this transition as seamless as possible…
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Public Beta starts today! COMMENT WITH YOUR FEEDBACK!
Today is the day we open the public beta for you! beta.dailykos.com In order to use the beta site, you will create a new account that will ONLY be used on the…
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Preparing for site migration: bye bye Tip Jars and TU, and other changes to community moderation
Hello again, friends! As we all prepare for the migration to the WordPress version of the site, currently scheduled for April 15, 2026, we’re going to take a…
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Public beta is imminent! April 6
Hi all, We’ve been heads down on the internal beta, getting ready to open this up to everyone on Monday, April 6. We’re feeling very good about where things…
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Preparing for site migration: what won’t be migrated, what you need to do
Greetings again, friends! As we all prepare for the migration to the WordPress version of the site, currently scheduled for April 15, 2026, we’re going to take…
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Preparing for site migration: do you know your Daily Kos login credentials?
Greetings, friends! As we all prepare for the migration to the WordPress version of the site, currently scheduled for April 15, 2026, we’re going to take a few…
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Here’s when you can test the new Daily Kos website
It’s been a month since the previous update on Daily Kos’ big migration to WordPress. If you’re looking for the background—the what and the why—those links are…
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Check out these screenshots of the new Daily Kos
I’ve got some screenshots of the new site for you! As you can see, we’ve simplified the navigation significantly, while keeping the overall look and feel mostly…
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