To Do On Dreamwidth

[such_heights]

So far, I have:

-- started uploading icons (200! shiny!). This is also exciting because I can redo my keywords without making all my old comments and posts revert to default. I'm still hovering between having general keywords that mean I can switch icons in and out, or what I've got going right now, where the icon maker is included.

-- subscribed to a bunch of people! Hi, new people. If I've subscribed to you, it's because either you subscribed to me first (*waves*) or I already like your fic/vids/meta/stylish use of emoticons, and clicking 'subscribe' over here seems much less intimidating that clicking 'friend' on LJ.

-- created torchwood. (The availability of every name ever right now is also pleasing.) tea has already gone ahead with the_hub for Torchwood fanworks, but a general discussion community was also required. I am tickled that it already has some members and subscribers without me doing anything to alert the world to its existence.

Soon I intend to:

-- figure out some kind of coherent long-term access/subscription policy and make a post about it, because clearly this is Serious Business. (I'm being particularly slow on access just now because I'm not planning to post locked content in the imminent future.) Also, edit introductory post to actually serve as an introduction.

-- work out whether I want to back up my whole journal, repost fanworks only, or none of the above.

Comments

[heathershaped]

!!!

Oooh. How is it you've got room for all those icons? Are paid accounts available?

*is addicted to userpics*

(Also, hi. But then, we've already bonded over mutual Gwen love.)

[such_heights]

Hello!

You can't pay for anything yet, but you can try out any account you like.

[heathershaped]

Win!

*switches over to Premium, 'cos that's what I'll likely be getting when I can*

[glass_icarus]

WHOA. awesome! :D have just switched to seed, and damn 200 is a lot of pictures!

[musesfool]

Yeah, I was very excited last night to weed out a lot of the icon keywords I don't use much but keep around for old posts.

[such_heights]

I'm really taking to this whole starting at a new site business, I think!

[thaddeusfavour]

Hello! Found you!

You might want to let these folk know. They're keeping a list of fandom sites on Dreamwidth.

http://newbieguide.dreamwidth.org/

Need to get the word out about them as well. It's nice to have a guide to fansites.

[such_heights]

Thanks, got it! I think I'll do a wee round-up of neat things that have been posted here so far in the next day or two.

[gorgeousnerd]

I appear to have stumbled upon a bug that isn't letting me comment on this. But I'm nothing if not stubborn!

All I wanted to say is that there's something less intimidating about "subscribe" versus "friend", since the latter implies a strong relationship that isn't necessarily there. Good on Dreamwidth.

[such_heights]

Haha, success!

And there definitely is - another interesting effect, I think, which is making me a bit cautious about the access thing, is that taking someone off your access list now seems more severe.

[tea]

Ah, man, I wish I'd read your post before having stupid comment conversation in which I misunderstood mucho. Serves me right for trying to catch up on things on my iPod.

I backed up my journal, but I did it so everything came in under the security setting "private", so I have it but it doesn't show up for anyone else. I'm going to mirror my fic once I can get a second account, I think, to properly separate the two out.

[such_heights]

Hee, it's fine! You crazy kids and your portable technology.

Oooh. So, I could import everything, and then only make the fic public? There's an idea! Sounds much easier than doing it the other way round.

[tea]

The way to do it is to go to your default settings and change the minimum security of future posts to private, and then import, because the importer defaults to the highest security from the source OR on your dw journal. And after importing, I just changed it back.