New flowers
4 September 2025 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeThe seedling pink Linaria has come into bloom, and the evening primroses have sent up a biennial scented flower spike thanks to being thinned out last year. The buddleia has also put out a very tatty flower, as I hoped it would when I left it unpruned; I shall now be able to cut it back again :-p
I got a message saying that I had been randomly given a year's paid Dreamwidth account "through our sponsor-a-free-user program". So far as I can tell this doesn't actually make a great deal of difference from my perspective, as I haven't reached the limit of what is available to me via the free account (though I have been careful not to) http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=4
And there wouldn't be much point in any case in my uploading extra icons or adding an extra five hundred tags if they simply got removed again at the end of a year (I have no intention of paying to renew the subscription myself, I'm afraid).
So far as I can see the extras which are actually likely to be of use to me are the ability to search within my own journal (my inability to do that is why my journal entries tend to be so heavily hyperlinked, so that I can navigate back through previous mentions of things!) and the ability to read back through more than ten Recent Comments on my own posts. I can't use the existing image hosting interface, so extra disc quota there is pointless (and again, any extra images would just get deleted after a year).
The Network view might conceivably be useful, as it is a substitute for clicking through my friends' reading lists if I get bored :-)
I got a message saying that I had been randomly given a year's paid Dreamwidth account "through our sponsor-a-free-user program". So far as I can tell this doesn't actually make a great deal of difference from my perspective, as I haven't reached the limit of what is available to me via the free account (though I have been careful not to) http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=4
And there wouldn't be much point in any case in my uploading extra icons or adding an extra five hundred tags if they simply got removed again at the end of a year (I have no intention of paying to renew the subscription myself, I'm afraid).
So far as I can see the extras which are actually likely to be of use to me are the ability to search within my own journal (my inability to do that is why my journal entries tend to be so heavily hyperlinked, so that I can navigate back through previous mentions of things!) and the ability to read back through more than ten Recent Comments on my own posts. I can't use the existing image hosting interface, so extra disc quota there is pointless (and again, any extra images would just get deleted after a year).
The Network view might conceivably be useful, as it is a substitute for clicking through my friends' reading lists if I get bored :-)
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Date: 2025-09-04 09:10 pm (UTC)I do occasionally pay for an account to help keep them afloat, but I'd do it far more often if they would make it easier to embed photographs elsewhere on the web.
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Date: 2025-09-04 09:24 pm (UTC)But then I'm using plain IMG tags and simply inserting the raw URL of the image in question. My problem is with hosting images that are *not* already elsewhere on the Web; Dreamwidth's own image hosting is using some kind of more complex interface...