make it possible to publish "same-day" posts
Hi there, this is a report from the comms team. Please keep in mind that the use case here is of a user that does not know command line.
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web IDE crashes the browser because it requires so many resources from the computer. It takes forever to load (15-45minutes) after many attempts. This is just to get to a place where you can upload an image, if an error occurs you have to start all over again. action point: document in a new issue in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/lego/-/issues, see if it's possible to use lektor locally? -
takes ~15-30 minutes to upload a preview. normally the workflow involves a lot of back and forward with preview to fix markup mistakes. this 'editing and previewing' process ends up taking hours. action point: document in #40015 -
if something in the build process breaks and the preview doesn't populate, it is not possible to tell what is wrong and more time is lost in figuring what to fix action point: document in a new issue in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/blog/-/issues/ -
doing anything more than adding a lead image (e.g., adding images inline, hyperlinking an inline image, resizing something) takes a mixture of markup and HTML, which requires a lot of trial and error (see second item) action point: see if it's possible to use lektor locally? -
we always depend on a person to finalize the process, you have to (a) ask a web person to merge the request (b) keep checking the website for an hour+ to ensure its there (c) often ask the person to do another step to actually make the post live because something was forgotten in the merge process. this adds up to the time to complete the task. action point: request access to the web team -
currently is almost impossible to guarantee a post can be published on the "day-of", to do that we need to mobilize a lot of time to make sure the task can be done. action point: fix all of the above issues. 😄