Non-Rec: Things I Was Utterly Unaware Of
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isabellerecsBeing on Dreamwidth has been something of a crash course in the old school way of doing things, and my Tumblr-using ass has been a little startled by some of the differences.
Late last night I finally discovered the Themes page. Oh man, you don't know how relieved I was because I had begun to think that I was going to have to learn some HTML to get things to look different and I was not sure I was going to be equal to the task.
Apparently I also have to be circumspect about my tags, because unlike Tumblr or WordPress one cannot just tag to your heart's content. There seems to be a limit of 1,000 which sounds generous but I was already up to 100 and I'd only done a dozen posts. o_O Oops, so I'm learning to "Manage Tags" :D
Though backdating posts appears to be a thing (that I hope doesn't spam peoples' reading page D:), there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to schedule posts in the future. I'm a little bummed about that and I'm going to go on record to say that my posting will probably be less even and regular than I would like.
All in all, I feel like I'm finding my feet and in the meantime I'm having some pretty cool chats with a few of you. :D Here endth my rambling.
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Date: 2018-12-07 09:25 pm (UTC)I'm struggling to get used to these tags again too! I miss being able to mutter under my breath at the end of a post.
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Date: 2018-12-07 09:37 pm (UTC)I feel like a whole element of posting is not an option with the tags being so limited. Though I suppose it does mean that you have to be deliberate about your tags. I do like that you can manage them in one place and you don't have to modify each post individually. :D
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Date: 2018-12-08 03:05 am (UTC)Though, most people here post as-and-when and don't necessarily have a posting schedule.
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Date: 2018-12-08 03:21 am (UTC)Ack, where are my manners. Hi, Hello! You have been very helpful, thank you for taking the time to help defuse some of my confusion. :)
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Date: 2018-12-08 03:27 am (UTC)Hi there! I noticed you friended me, so I friended back! (I still use LJ terminology for a whole lot of stuff, but a lot of us oldies do.)
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Date: 2018-12-08 03:55 am (UTC)I've begun to feel like some sort of weird hybrid new-old, because back in the LJ heyday I lurked professionally so I recognize plenty of the lingo right up until I don't and then I'm all "What this do?" like a new that's only ever used Tumblr.
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Date: 2018-12-08 04:01 am (UTC)For example: (lj user="sharpiefan") and (username=sharpiefan) will both get my name, and (username=sharpiefan site=ao3.org) will give a link to AO3 - that works for a lot of other places like Twitter, LJ and (I think) Tumblr. Just use the HTML <> brackets rather than parenthesis!
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Date: 2018-12-08 04:32 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-12-08 12:41 pm (UTC)DW introduced the sticky post idea (and then gave us TWO!) but post-dating something used to be a way to sticky something, back in LJ days, and those didn't show for anyone else.
There's always the edit button if something hasn't worked out quite how you wanted, too!
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Date: 2018-12-08 04:11 am (UTC)On the other hand, I wish people would post MORE, because I keep refreshing my reading page and seeing the same stuff. On Tumblr, the thing would suggest me interesting posts/people and at least I'd get new stuff that way. Here, I guess I just need to follow more people!
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Date: 2018-12-08 01:30 pm (UTC)Thanks entirely to your post about comms, I'm now a member of five new/old comms. That was so helpful! :) And the historical comm lead me to an HBO War comm, and I got to read this wonderful story hot off the presses. It made my night.
Yeah, we've all shown up and are so busy trying to get our bearings I think new content has kind of taken a back seat. In an effort to combat that feeling I'm trying to back post my previous recs but that is slow going. Today's rec would be number 1,684, so that is going to be an ongoing project. ;P
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Date: 2018-12-08 02:27 pm (UTC)But, DW's run by fans for fans, so I'm sure they're working on something like that - and if not, they'll have really good reasons.
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Date: 2018-12-08 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-08 04:21 pm (UTC)Here, lots of folks want to chat and throw in their two cents and that is awesome, and it really does build a sense of community. :D
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Date: 2018-12-08 02:22 pm (UTC)Also.
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Date: 2018-12-08 04:19 pm (UTC)(Love the Fourth Doctor icon, BTW! :D )
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Date: 2018-12-08 04:42 pm (UTC)(user name=snowflake_challenge)
(user name=whatever site=ao3.org) or (user name=whatever site=tumblr.com) (DW supports Twitter, LJ, AO3, Tumblr - I don't know about Wordpress, Blogger or Pillowfort. You do have to include the correct suffix for the site, though - .org or .com or whatever.)
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Date: 2018-12-08 05:54 pm (UTC)Thank you. :)