When someone forgets to designate a workflow stage for a budget/story, it automatically publishes to the web. This is a very bad idea. Can it be changed??

Not sure if anyone noticed, but Google made a change in December that affected how and if videos were indexed. The change created a massive decrease in the number of videos indexed from our sites. Are we alone in this, or are you seeing the same thing?

Check this interaction out from Google support: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/248660820?hl=en

I'm baffled.

JPF

I made an error in trying to change a function on a live poll. It reset the results back to 0. But I have the results at the time I made that error. Is it possible to manually restore the correct number with each choice?

What is the best (fastest) way to add a story element to multiple sites? Or transfer an element from one site to a sister site? Right now I have to create the element for one site, export it to my hard drive as a bpm file, then import it to the other sites. It's a clunky and time consuming process for those of us who manage sites for multiple publications. Is there any way to do this more efficiently?

We're seeing a large increase in comment spam lately so I'd like to formally make the feature request for something that I know I talked to support about in the past. We require email confirmation when new accounts are created but obviously the spammers have automated their way around that.

I'd like an option to require an active subscription to post comments on the site. This offers numerous benefits to all Town News customers:

• Provides another perk or subscriber benefit to paying readers.

• Potential to increase Day Pass sales for those who aren't subscribers but really want to share their opinion or comment.

• Reduces comment spam to virtually zero.

I could see it being useful to allow this setting to be toggled per URL/section so that for example you could allow anyone to comment on obituaries but not news stories.

1. All of the items listed above.

2. Every day.

3. Every reader.

Please let me know if anyone has thoughts or questions!

Thanks,

Kevin

Is anyone else having issues creating poll assets? Every time we try to create a new poll we get the message "Preparing asset editor," and that's it.

I'm wondering if this s something unique to us or is it a larger problem.

Has anyone moved away from using Google for site analytics?  We are thinking about migrating to a service like Plausible.io which we pay for vs. using Google for free and giving them info about all of our readers.  Plus, managing it appears to be an order of magnitude simpler.

Has anyone made this change? Any feedback or other services we should look into?

That's all!

Thanks

Adam

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We have an on prem TCMS appliance and we are trying to figure out a feasible way to allow our page designers to work at home without requiring VPN. The internet lag seems to be the biggest hurdle but we also struggle with giving access to the shared files without VPN. Is anyone doing this successfully and wouldn't mind sharing the setup?