Admin Post: Discussion Post: What are you yearning to Pillowpost?

[prettyarbitrary]

First a bit of comm business:
The What do you want from this community poll is still open. I'll let it run for another day or so. We have over 25 members (already!) and less than half have voted, so if you've got opinions, feel free to make them known!

But so far, there's strong consensus in favor of:

• "Connect with other Pillowforters"


• "Updates/conversation about Pillowfort"


• "Members can post things into the community"


• "Conversation starter posts from the mod"

So let's get started with those discussion posts! Our first topic: What do you wish you could post on Pillowfort?

What's the most recent thing that had you thinking, "I should make a post about that?" Or the thing that's overpoweringly making your fingers twitch because you keep thinking about it and have nowhere to put it?

Tell us in the comments here--or heck, make your own community post about it!

(Fun fact: on DW, you can track comments for a post or comment thread! If there's a convo you'd like to follow, look along the bottom of the post or comment for the 'Track this' icon--it might look like a little bell--and click it to turn tracking on or off. If you add tracking for a comment, then you'll get notified of any comments made in the thread from that comment on down. You can find all your notification settings in Account Settings>Notifications, where you can turn them off at any time.)

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

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.

[prettyarbitrary]

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.

[prettyarbitrary]

Actually let me just give this a try.

[yourlibrarian]

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