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Nah, you can make the one about loforo and pond if you want! I have other stuff I want to write that even if I did want to write posts about those sites, it wouldn’t be a priority and it would take too long to get to.

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vent post about this annoying move I've noticed with some people's metacommentary

This has me intrigued 👀

Edited Date: 2021-02-06 10:21 pm (UTC)

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Hahah I'm curious about the metacommentary thing too.

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osteophage

Ah that one was just going to be one of those simple three-sentence sort of posts, and for the life of me I can't find the example I saw earlier today that-- Oh no wait, here we go. It was this critical analysis of Harry Potter. Note, the actual main argument/primary contents of this post aren't what bothers me. I think it's overall pretty decent. Take a look through it, though, and see if you can spot the point where I quit reading to go jot down some irritated notes. Hint: it's something quick and small and toward the end.

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The only thing that stands out to me is the inappropriate use of the word 'receipts.'

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cassildra

Everything I've posted on Dreamwidth in the past day has been stuff I wish I could post to pifo! It's just not got the same feel here. My reading list is much smaller, too.

That said? I'd kill to talk about MUSHing on pifo. I think it has better reach there than here, ironically!

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~~WHAT IS MUSHING? Is that like a game or something??~~ NVM, I just saw your post about it!

Edited Date: 2021-02-06 10:26 pm (UTC)

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cassildra

There's a link for more info on my post, too :)

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I used to play on a MUD, back...oh, over 20 years ago. But I still remember those buggers fondly. There was something so purely creative about them.

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cassildra

It's so weird. I think the lack of graphics is actually very freeing.

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I guess maybe it's not so surprising. After all, tabletop RPGs are all oral storytelling and imaginations. :D

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cassildra

Huh, that's a good point.

I miss having a regular physical group though.

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Same. Playing online is great, but there's an extra special something with having people right there around the table with you.

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Before PF went down, I was really planning to make a post about the movies-I’ve-seen-in my-whole-life project I did and my review of the site I did it on, trakt.tv and some realizations I had while doing it. I was also planning to make another post in the same vein about my childhood experiences around the different ways I had access to movies; a kinda nostalgia-based narrative type post instead of a an informing type one.

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You can still put it heeeeeere.

I'm particularly interested in the ways you had access to movies! I've been thinking about stuff like that lately.

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I think I will, just gotta get up the spoons to do it, is all.

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Fair enough! Darn silverware can be surprisingly hard to come by.

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XD this made me laugh

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recently_folded

This. This right here. I'd hit that little heart on Pf to agree yes, well said and made me grin.

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I happen to have posted about this recently! I am really really missing the image posting function. I very rarely embed videos and I can still do that here with no more difficulty than at PF. And while I sometimes link embed there I can easily link out from here as well. But images? My only workarounds are time consuming, and I got very used to the ability to not only create photo posts but also easily reblog them to communities.

I can still do that here -- for example, I just shared something today on

common_nature that I posted on my own account the day before. But the original image host is a clunky process that means I am in no way going to post many photos the way I did there.

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osteophage

Yeah, similarly... I was just thinking earlier, if I had to fully move over to DW, I would be bummed out about how inconvenient it would be to post as much desert photography as I have on PF.

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Oh definitely. I mean, just yesterday I mentioned how all my early blog photos, from about 2015 and earlier, are now gone from here because I'd used an external host for years and they suddenly restricted use down to under 100 pics. I use Google Photos now (which, fortunately, maintained all the links from Picassa which was the next host) but they don't offer an embed code. I have to use a third party site to do those one at a time. DW began offering image hosting after I was using Picassa and there is a storage limit, plus it's still not all that quick since you can't upload directly into the post.

As a result I stopped sharing many photos at all in the last 4 years. So I already have a ton of stuff at PF that I never posted here at all and never will either.

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Does the < img src= blah blah > work for images in Google photo galleries? I ask because I haven't actually tried it. But for photos that are hosted on external sites, I often find that good old-fashioned HTML is the fastest way.

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Actually let me just give this a try.

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No, it doesn't work because the image address can't be used for the embed without a workaround.

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It's actually easier to post images that are hosted somewhere that isn't DW than it is to post images you have in your DW image gallery. :(

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I miss easy image posting so much!

The DW folks have said they're working on it, but they need to do a lot of cleanup on the underlying code to get it ready for that, and with such a small group of mostly-volunteers, that'll take a while.

Although I have been enjoying all the various quality of life improvements they've been making along the way.

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I have as well. But I wouldn't expect anything to change for some time. As I recall the ability to host images at all took some 6 years after it was announced.

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I remember the days of posting pics on forums, I guess it’s pretty similar to here (haven’t tried posting pics to DW yet). You just need to find a good image host you feel comfy with, preferably one that automatically gives you the copy-paste code for html/markdown/bbc code when you upload the image and it’s pretty smooth sailing after that. Pretzelspaceship (Bea) recommended this one when I talked to her about it on Discord: https://imgbox.com/

Also, having w3schools or the markdown code tips page in browser bookmarks for easy access can help a lot too. If you use DW on mobile, you can even set up your keyboard to do a shortcut for html coding. For an example, when I type &shrug on my keyboard I set it up to give me this kaomoji —> ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I just set it up for myself “&img” turns to src=“IMAGE URL” alt=“ALT TEXT”> and “&links” turns to =“url” target=“_blank”>title< /a> Cool huh! (Removed some elements of the html so it doesn’t auto-format, the whole version in in my keyboard is complete)

Edited Date: 2021-02-07 12:27 am (UTC)

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Oh the coding is the simple part. I ended up with Picassa post-Imageshack because I didn't want to have a repeat of all the photo losses. I figured Google is not likely to completely delete photo storage. They did actually phase out Picassa but transitioned it to Photos, and if they phase that out I suspect it will likely be to a more general cloud storage option with a size limit.

Of course, should PF go down entirely that will be a different sort of loss, but at least it won't be one that can be seen now on DW where there are a lot of posts with broken links or watermarked images after hosts changed their Terms.

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This, absolutely missing. That was one of the attractive things about tumblr (remember when there were attractive things about tumblr?), that oh-so-easy image posting. And Pf was smart to hold onto that as a must-have. I've been meeting online for over 20 years now with a group of friends, and although we have a custom text-based website we built for this and years of expressive conventions, we've somehow mostly migrated to slack because of that ease of posting images and links that auto-snippet.

Yesterday I did upload a couple photos here to post, and while it wasn't much more complicated than posting to my wordpress blog, there were all of those steps which are not just straight-forward html but involve DW code. Plus, just now, opening my html editor because I didn't want to mess up the link to my post with a typo and break the page, simply to make this reply.

I think that not only are those of us who can do the html nonetheless happy with the convenience of not, it definitely opens up use by those who can't and don't care to take that time and fiddly effort. And that ultimately makes the conversations richer, I feel.

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Easy image posting was Tumblr's killer app, it was what made the site. And you're right about how one comes to expect that. I found I couldn't do it on Discord and was surprised (there was an option for gifs and emoticons, but not images from my desktop).

Ooh kitty pics! Always worth seeing 😺

I know that another thing that got me using PF was the fact that while it didn't use HTML, I didn't have to recode a post to share it there either. If every site has its own markup options (or doesn't have any) this is a headache which means one will reduce cross posting. However I quickly discovered that I could simply copy the finished post from here and paste it there and it would be an exact duplicate with markup and links intact. The fact that you can't do that in reverse at DW however has surely got to be a major roadblock for someone whose main accounts are somewhere else. While I often found this irritating at PF (all the people image posting their Tumblr or Twitter posts even though you could just do link embed, or you could just copy the text itself), the fact that people want to do this means DW is going to be used less.

Edited (Lack of clarity) Date: 2021-02-07 05:56 pm (UTC)

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kara_mckay

I wanted to post to PF about a positive experience I had with one of my residents at work. He'd been in a very stressful situation, and was picking at his fingers, so I talked with him a little bit about how I have a bad habit of picking my fingers when I feel upset, too, but how it's not good for either of us to do that. I showed him my fingers and told him that I know his fingers hurt at night because my fingers hurt too, and that we need to find something better to do instead of hurting ourselves when we feel bad. And, then he gave me the nail clippers he'd swiped earlier -- he'd had them stashed in his hoodie pocket for later, and I hadn't even known he had them. I can't even describe how I felt when he did that. Knowing that I'd said something to him that made him re-think his earlier decision to self harm really... well, like I said, I don't know how to describe the feeling. Good, and also humbling. I wanted to post about it on PF because I've talked a lot about my job there, and I don't feel like my DW suscribers (what a word!) have enough info to really understand how big that was.

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