New flowers

[igenlode]

The 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

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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 :-)

Comments

[watervole]

Yes, I got one of those last year, but like you, the search is the only bit that's actually useful.

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.

[igenlode]

I don't have any difficulty embedding photos from elsewhere on the Web

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...

[sallymn]

I love linaria!

[igenlode]

Well, I don't actually know if it *is* Linaria of some kind -- that was my best guess when I first tried to identify it a few years ago, and the name has stuck because I have to call it *something*... (just as my 'oriental poppies' are apparently actually opium poppies, with the distinctive black cross in the centre of the flowers -- I gathered the seed wild, so I didn't know what variety they were!)


All I can say is that Linaria was the only thing I could find which had snapdragon-type flowers with that long tail on them, and the long pointy leaves look about right as well.

[pangolin20]

I received a Premium Paid account after I mentioned that it was very hard for me to get one on a news post, and I feel much the same about it as you. I'm happy that someone gave Dreamwidth some more money on my behalf, but I really don't care it other than the more advanced search capabilities. (My image storage is nearly at the limit for free accounts, but I've got plenty of space in my other account.)

Edit: You can search exclusively in your own journal even without a paid account by putting "igenlode.dreamwidth.org" after your search query; this unfortunately means that you can't do exact matching with quotes.

I can't use the existing image hosting interface,

Given that I've spent quite some time with that interface myself, I'd be interested to know what the problem is!

[igenlode]

Edit: You can search exclusively in your own journal even without a paid account by putting "igenlode.dreamwidth.org" after your search query; this unfortunately means that you can't do exact matching with quotes.

I didn't realise that you *could* do exact matching with quotes :-)

I did notice that if I do a search for, say, deserve I get matches for strings such as "deserving" (e.g. https://igenlode.dreamwidth.org/311239.html matches a search for "deserve" despite not in fact containing that exact sequence of characters). So there is clearly a certain amount of extrapolation being applied...

can't use the existing image hosting interface

Given that I've spent quite some time with that interface myself, I'd be interested to know what the problem is

Lack of JavaScript, I assume.
At any rate I have no option to add an image to my post in the new beta-version entries page, and the link that used to appear at the top of the old version never actually did anything when I clicked on it anyway.
http://ivory.ueuo.com/Tower/Dreamwidth/screenshots.html

[pangolin20]

I didn't realise that you could do exact matching with quotes :-)

Now you know! I do note that such an exact match (which is "exact series of words" rather than "exact series of characters" for Dreamwidth) can't contain any phrases outside of the quotes, and you unfortunately can only look for a single exact match at once.

As for the fuzzy matching, I get why it's a thing, and it can be helpful, but it makes certain things, like "Eddings", for example, almost impossible to search. It's only the case for English, though, so "merezco" and "mereciendo" do indeed yield different result sets.

images

I can see the problem, then, though I think I'll have a look to see if it's possible to do something about that...

Edit: I see that disabling Javascript in Firefox means that uploading images doesn't seem to work, but I can use the <‌img src=""> markup to insert one. I'm not sure that's at all relevant, but I figure it can't hurt to make this information public!

[igenlode]

I see that disabling Javascript in Firefox means that uploading images doesn't seem to work, but I can use the <‌img src=""> markup to insert one. I'm not sure that's at all relevant, but I figure it can't hurt to make this information public!

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.

[pangolin20]

To correct myself: The method I recommended above to find hits in your own journal actually just finds posts that link to your own journal, which is kind of accurate in your case, and would work like a charm for my own journal, but won't work at all for most people. Oh well...

[pangolin20]

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).

[igenlode]

*If* you have any images, they're available here, for reference...

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 :-)

[pangolin20]

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?

[igenlode]

Yes, my journal entries generally have a *lot* of internal links for my own benefit, so that I have a record of what past remark/event I was referring to... the ability to cross-reference entries in an electronic journal is very useful :-)

(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...!)

[pangolin20]

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.