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 08:56 pm (UTC)(And I've spent hours before now trying to track down some past nugget of insight that I remember writing on a subject, only to locate it somewhere buried in a comment chain, or even in a comment to someone *else's* journal...!)
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Date: 2025-12-25 09:16 pm (UTC)Oh yes, finding my own comments like that is a bit of trouble I'm quite familiar with, not in the least because I'm talking to quite a lot of different people in different places (probably less than in your case, but I'd estimate there's around twenty different places I've left comments)! For my own journal, it's mostly series of related posts, so I can luckily just set up a table of contents and go from there.