Just posting this one to dreamwidth in semagic, and doing the 'post to multiple journals' to try it out from that end.
I'm actually really liking dreamwidth so far. Things I like:
- I love the import function. It made it unbelievably easy to port 8 years worth of LJ, and its comments, over to a new site. And the countdown telling you where it was, very cool.
- I like the separation of 'reading' versus 'access'. It would be lovely to think that this would cut down on the whole friending/defriending wank but I suspect that, with people being people, it will simply turn into 'why have you given me access but aren't bothering reading me?' or 'why are you reading me but locking me out' wank instead. But still, it makes that default view filter rather pointless ::g::
- I'm assuming that more layouts are coming, so I won't comment on that, but I did like the fact that you could add multiple usericons on the one page as opposed to adding them one at a time. Of course, then I discovered the 'journal import' feature, and discovered it ported in userpics, too (so, so cool!) and therefore I wouldn't have to add them en masse (which is just as well, because I got bored and I have over 150 icons on LJ), but still. Given that every now and then I think 'oh, dear, I've added new icons to LJ but not IJ', it will make my life easier. Assuming that I get a paid account over here, which I'm dithering about. It may very well be that I only use it like IJ, i.e. as a way to keep track of people not on LJ, with LJ being my default, but we'll see. I won't be getting a seed account - they're out of my price range at the moment, and I prefer the dust to settle before committing long term to things anyway.
Things I'm not so fond of:
- the layouts, but as noted above, I suspect that this will change and probably quite quickly
Things I haven't yet tried (but will do)
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temaris, you can post from DW's web interface to your other LJ clone sites. At first I was all 'meh, I have semagic for that' (which I ♥) but then I realised that semagic doesn't work on linux, which means that this interface may become very useful when I'm out and about with the wee Acer. And from Tem's testing, it appears that all edits also extrapolate across the sites, which will be immensely useful for I am the typo queen. And also for updating ficathon masterlists etc
Bugs/weird things that I haven't figured out yet how to report (or even figure out whether they're reportable):
- the lack of a 'default view' filter (the one that serves as your default friendspage when you're logged in). (Yes, I do use it as it helps me easily cycle comms in particular on and off my reading list depending on how much/how little time I have. And helps me stay relatively sane when fandoms are going 'boom!'). I discovered this when I realised that in spite of the filter being created by the import function, it didn't have anyone in it (in theory meaning I shouldn't have had any entries on my reading page) and yet my reading page showed all the accounts I'm subscribed to.
I'm not sure whether this is deliberate, because it's felt to be redundant due to the differences between subscribe and allow access (see above); whether it's deliberate because it's not something that dreamwidth wishes to support; or an oversight. It doesn't bother me too much, but it's a weird thing.
-when posting from semagic, tags don't work on Dreamwidth. With LJ and IJ, not only existing tags but also newly created tags in semagic are posted along with the entry, but with Dreamwidth it's neither, so I am tagless ::sniff:: I suspect that will get annoying in the medium to long term, so it would also fall under the 'things I don't love' heading as well, but for now I'm assuming it's a bug. Also worth noting - when I switch to my dreamwidth account in semagic, there is no tag input option. Semagic or DW? Don't know, but I suspect the latter given that the field exists on all my other accounts, including journalfen and originally journalfen didn't support tags and was missing that field as well on the semagic interface, and because even if I create the entry under another account that does have that field and cross post it to DW, the tags aren't there ah ha! I had vague recollections of this being an issue on journalfen once they enabled tags, and therefore googled it and found the instructions for enabling it under the userprofile using regedit. Did that, and I now have the tag and location fields under my DW account interface, and it should now work when posting. If anyone else needs it, the instructions I used were on queenbarwench's IJ here.
- there's some weird formatting issue going on with imported comments, whereby whenever someone uses the lj user tag in a comment, that account name and accompanying little head is followed by a huge big space before the next word. I suspect it's an issue with the definition of 'span' in the comment properties of layouts, because it doesn't seem to affect the main body, even with imported journal entries, but it is weird anyway.
I don't know if the same issue occurs with non-imported comments, as no one has commented yet, let alone commented and used an lj user tag. Perhaps I should check at some point, but I'm trying to limit the number of times I talk to myself in any 24 hour period.
Overall, I'm impressed even though I'm currently wedded to LJ. A naughty weekend or two may well be in the offing, just to familiarise myself with all of it's ::cough:: features.
I'm actually really liking dreamwidth so far. Things I like:
- I love the import function. It made it unbelievably easy to port 8 years worth of LJ, and its comments, over to a new site. And the countdown telling you where it was, very cool.
- I like the separation of 'reading' versus 'access'. It would be lovely to think that this would cut down on the whole friending/defriending wank but I suspect that, with people being people, it will simply turn into 'why have you given me access but aren't bothering reading me?' or 'why are you reading me but locking me out' wank instead. But still, it makes that default view filter rather pointless ::g::
- I'm assuming that more layouts are coming, so I won't comment on that, but I did like the fact that you could add multiple usericons on the one page as opposed to adding them one at a time. Of course, then I discovered the 'journal import' feature, and discovered it ported in userpics, too (so, so cool!) and therefore I wouldn't have to add them en masse (which is just as well, because I got bored and I have over 150 icons on LJ), but still. Given that every now and then I think 'oh, dear, I've added new icons to LJ but not IJ', it will make my life easier. Assuming that I get a paid account over here, which I'm dithering about. It may very well be that I only use it like IJ, i.e. as a way to keep track of people not on LJ, with LJ being my default, but we'll see. I won't be getting a seed account - they're out of my price range at the moment, and I prefer the dust to settle before committing long term to things anyway.
Things I'm not so fond of:
- the layouts, but as noted above, I suspect that this will change and probably quite quickly
Things I haven't yet tried (but will do)
- per
temaris, you can post from DW's web interface to your other LJ clone sites. At first I was all 'meh, I have semagic for that' (which I ♥) but then I realised that semagic doesn't work on linux, which means that this interface may become very useful when I'm out and about with the wee Acer. And from Tem's testing, it appears that all edits also extrapolate across the sites, which will be immensely useful for I am the typo queen. And also for updating ficathon masterlists etcBugs/weird things that I haven't figured out yet how to report (or even figure out whether they're reportable):
- the lack of a 'default view' filter (the one that serves as your default friendspage when you're logged in). (Yes, I do use it as it helps me easily cycle comms in particular on and off my reading list depending on how much/how little time I have. And helps me stay relatively sane when fandoms are going 'boom!'). I discovered this when I realised that in spite of the filter being created by the import function, it didn't have anyone in it (in theory meaning I shouldn't have had any entries on my reading page) and yet my reading page showed all the accounts I'm subscribed to.
I'm not sure whether this is deliberate, because it's felt to be redundant due to the differences between subscribe and allow access (see above); whether it's deliberate because it's not something that dreamwidth wishes to support; or an oversight. It doesn't bother me too much, but it's a weird thing.
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- there's some weird formatting issue going on with imported comments, whereby whenever someone uses the lj user tag in a comment, that account name and accompanying little head is followed by a huge big space before the next word. I suspect it's an issue with the definition of 'span' in the comment properties of layouts, because it doesn't seem to affect the main body, even with imported journal entries, but it is weird anyway.
I don't know if the same issue occurs with non-imported comments, as no one has commented yet, let alone commented and used an lj user tag. Perhaps I should check at some point, but I'm trying to limit the number of times I talk to myself in any 24 hour period.
Overall, I'm impressed even though I'm currently wedded to LJ. A naughty weekend or two may well be in the offing, just to familiarise myself with all of it's ::cough:: features.