What's New (& Improved) on Daily Kos?
We strive every day to make our site the most effective platform for "news you can do something about." This goal entails maintaining our current code in good condition; implementing new features improving user options for reading, commenting, and publishing; and keeping up with industry best practices relative to accessibility, device security, and data storage and retrieval.
Most of our major changes are announced via multiple posts on the site, first as notices of upcoming events and then as confirmation that the changes have been implemented. All such stories are published through the Daily Kos Announcements group, so please feel free to visit this list view of all stories posted under the group's auspices to see what you might have missed. Here at the Help Desk these developments are often also explained in detail within our resource documents, especially those under the category "Daily Kos Features: Resources, Tips, and Tricks."
Our most recent changes, listed from most to least recent and linked to the posts describing them:
- Release notes: Multiple small changes to your Daily Kos experience (6/20/2023)
- A new look for stories on desktop and tablet (5/30/2023)
- A new story page is coming to a desktop near you (4/11/2023)
- Welcome to the new Daily Kos on mobile (10/4/2022)
- Bigger, better comment controls: Tell us what you think (5/5/2022)
- Please enjoy your new less obtrusive navigation bar (11/17/2021)
- Cookie to set "old style" comments cookie site-wide has been deactivated (explanation 10/13/2021; implemented 10/25/2021)
- Our new Users pages (plus updates to Groups and Tags pages) (9/30/2021)
- Site header changes (7/12/2021)
- Site subscriptions return (3/9/2021)
- Changes for our Help Desk (2/10/2021)
- New Groups pages: for Admins (8/26/2020)
- New Groups pages: for general members (8/26/2020)
- Introducing our new Front Page layout (7/7/2020)
- New Tags pages (3/5/2020)