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: 2025-12-25 07:05 pm (UTC)Yes, Dreamwidth supports normal HTML img syntax (unsurprisingly); you just need to have the source file located at some known URL.
So theoretically if you could upload images into the Dreamwidth image manager and identify their URL you could then include them in a post manually, like any image hosted outside Dreamwidth.
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Date: 2025-12-25 07:13 pm (UTC)That's how I've come to source all my images (because then they won't disappear unless I remove them myself or Dreamwidth goes offline, in which case the stuff they're used in will disappear along with them), so the procedure works. If you have any images, they're available here, for reference... but I have the idea that you cannot upload them at all (not that you're missing much, just a little bit of stability).
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Date: 2025-12-25 07:17 pm (UTC)Apparently I don't; I thought my profile image might be listed under that heading, but it is evidently stored separately, and the test image I attempted to upload just now doesn't show up.
So I have used 0.000MB of my quota :-)
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Date: 2025-12-25 07:36 pm (UTC)Luckily the icons are! (Yes, a free account can't have more than 900 KB (15 × 60 KB) of icons, but I'd still dislike it if they did cut into your image hosting.)
So I have used 0.000MB of my quota :-)
And I've used 498,161 MB on this account, so the money from your paid account is used more efficiently! :p That aside, that confirms what I wondered about, so Now We Know, for whatever it's worth. Given that I can't help with that, maybe I can point you at the following page, where you can (hopefully) implement custom CSS to your style, so that you can customise your style to your wishes if you want?