Dreamwidth

[karen2205]

pthalo gave me an invite code to Dreamwidth, so I've created an account here and started subscribing to people/granting them access. Will add other people as I find them. I'm still planning on giving money to Dreamwidth though - they seem worth $25. I think I will eventually (once Dreamwidth is running well) remove people's LJ OpenIDs from my subscription list, so that I'm not seeing multiple copies of the same entries (ie. both on LJ and here).

I'm currently without my rainforest quilt icon, which somehow seems very 'me' as it's the one I've used more or less exclusively for years. I feel a bit odd using the one I'm using - it's a very clear description of one aspect of me, but not something I've talked about much on LJ recently and I feel kind of exposed in using it in a public post, even though it's been sitting quite happily on my publicly accessible icons page on LJ for years.

The importer imported my entries from LJ fine and also imported 6 of my 9 icons happily, but failed to import comments or the other 3 icons. I have submitted a support request as per instructions to do that if the importer wasn't working properly. I've downloaded a copy of my rainforest quilt icon to my computer, but can't get Paint to be cooperative at making it a sensible size (I haven't got round to installing Gimp or similar yet on this computer). Will try again in the morning.

In general I'd like to have some more icons. I've never spent the time learning how to edit images well or in coming up with good ideas for icons and don't really want to ask for help with this as it's something I should be able to do if I just spent a bit of time studying it.

While I have imported LJ over here, I haven't set up any filtered access groups yet, nor added anyone to the filters that were imported across from LJ, so you're not going to be able to see much here at the moment. I imagine I'll get round to sorting that out eventually, if people seem to be sticking around here for a while (as I think they will, but don't currently know).

AIUI things at the moment, it's not currently possible to restrict entries to a filtered access group at the moment.No - see denise's comment below. Recently, on LiveJournal I've been doing a lot of friends-locked and filtered posting as a consequence of being busy at work and buying a house and other stuff going on that's meant I've been less able to apply the kind of skill and care I need to give to stuff I'm intentionally putting on the internet clearly linked with my real name and that is highly googleable. I have a feeling Dreamwidth may be a place where I do rather more public posting.

EditI'm using Zesty White as a journal style at the moment. When I click on 'reply' the screen I go to doesn't give me the set of little icons to edit the entry/add it to memories/send it to a friend/track it. If I take away the ?mode=reply from the end of the url, a box containing those options appears under my icon. I wonder if that's a feature or a bug.