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Oct. 11th, 2026 08:02 pm
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Today was National Coming Out Day.

So today I say once again, I am a transgender woman who is attracted to other women.

Four years ago I made a social media post to friends and family announcing that I was trans. I’d already spent the year before that struggling with the realization and accepting it.

The last five years have brought a lot of changes. I’ve learned a lot about myself. I’ve found new communities and I’ve lost connections.

I am now 50 years old and proud to be comfortable with being a trans woman. And while I may still have trouble seeing it in myself, I seem to have reached a point where I can pass in public.

I stand and am proud to be trans because when I was younger there weren’t folks out there being allowed to be publicly trans. It was considered a shameful thing to hide. It shouldn’t be.

I know that there is safety in the closet and not everyone can be comfortable being publicly out. I know I have privilege in that respect. I try to use it to make sure others will be able to be themselves safely.

So, today, I make the statement about myself so that someone else doesn’t have to hide who they are for decades like I did.


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[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

It's only been... okay, I don't want to think how long.

We are preparing to take the beta update page and the beta inbox out of beta with the next code release. We don't have an exact date yet, but this is your last chance to tell us about problems!

To enable the beta versions: go to Beta Features and enable the "new Create Entries" beta test for the new update page and the "New Inbox Page" for the, well, new inbox page.

If this is your first time using the beta update page: nearly everything on it can be adjusted, moved, or removed to some degree. The upper right side of the update form has a " ⚙️ Rearrange Panels" link.

Not every panel is enabled by default! If you don't see something you're used to finding, look in the disabled panels. While in Rearrange mode, you can enable or disable panels, drag them to whatever position you want, and generally customize it to your heart's content.

Once we push the button and switch to the new update and inbox pages for everyone, we cannot keep the old ones available. We are so close to finishing the decade-long "get rid of the undocumented custom templating language from 1996 that no one else uses" modernization project that's been sapping our collective will to live that we can taste it, and we can't convert the old update page and the updated inbox page is the converted version. This is your last chance to alert us of problems. If you let us know after the switch goes live, we'll still fix it, but we can't guarantee how fast. Prevent future problems and test drive them now!

Code pushed -- FYI

Oct. 3rd, 2026 10:20 am
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[staff profile] mark posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

Hi all,

I had to push some code live today to fix something, and that brought with it a couple of new things like if you have two-factor authentication (2FA/MFA) enabled, you got automatically logged out and it is now required to log in. If you don't, you can set it up if you want (you don't have to.)

This also means that if you have 2FA enabled, you will not be able to use 3P clients using your username and password anymore. You should be able to use API keys in most cases, but there's some nuance to that (and tbh, I just am not precisely sure what clients anybody even uses.)

Please do comment if you're seeing anything weird, as per usual, and we'll work on it. Thank you!

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