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9 July 2020 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI was astonished to learn today that a parcel I sent off by second class post at about 5pm yesterday had already arrived, having travelled a hundred miles in less than a day -- despite having split open in transit, been put into a plastic bag, and resealed. (I wonder if that could possibly have had any influence on the speedy arrival? Presumably it was pulled out of the general sack to avoid spilling its contents everywhere...)
Comment situation: I worked out that I can respond to comments on my own posts using Dreamwidth's 'respond to comment via email' feature (once I'd got that working -- what it doesn't tell you directly is that the one bit of 'Markdown' that is not supported is the email-style quoting, so every time I tried to respond to a comment I just got an 'empty message' error! Makes sense in retrospect, because they're trying to cope with the situation where emails are potentially coming in with the entire received text quoted by default, but it means that I have to strip out the quoting provided by the email client and then substitute manual HTML tags.)
However, I can't comment on other people's posts via this mechanism. I did find alternative software that will allow me to log in and comment, but it's slow and very unstable and requires me to quit other programs before running it (and isn't actively supported by the developer), so posting comments on Dreamwidth has now joined reviewing on fanfiction.net as a labour-intensive and occasional activity :-(
Comment situation: I worked out that I can respond to comments on my own posts using Dreamwidth's 'respond to comment via email' feature (once I'd got that working -- what it doesn't tell you directly is that the one bit of 'Markdown' that is not supported is the email-style quoting, so every time I tried to respond to a comment I just got an 'empty message' error! Makes sense in retrospect, because they're trying to cope with the situation where emails are potentially coming in with the entire received text quoted by default, but it means that I have to strip out the quoting provided by the email client and then substitute manual HTML tags.)
However, I can't comment on other people's posts via this mechanism. I did find alternative software that will allow me to log in and comment, but it's slow and very unstable and requires me to quit other programs before running it (and isn't actively supported by the developer), so posting comments on Dreamwidth has now joined reviewing on fanfiction.net as a labour-intensive and occasional activity :-(
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Date: 2020-07-09 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-10 12:52 am (UTC)The email notifications carry the following footer:
That system bypasses the browser altogether (as does the post-by-email option, although I haven't tried that).
Unfortunately there isn't any way to receive email notifications with a magic reply address about new posts from people on the reading list - the only options are "when someone comments on any entry in my journal", "when someone sends me a message", "when someone replies to my comment" and "when someone replies to my entry in a community".
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Date: 2020-07-10 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-09 11:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-10 12:41 am (UTC)I put in a support request a week ago -- which I am still able to do, because it uses a different interface.
I also put in a bug report to the browser developer team.
At this stage I'm not expecting any imminent response from either (and I think it's probably mainly a non-supported browser quirk, although it's the interaction with the latest DW code iteration that's fatal).