Onward and upward
Dec. 9th, 2018 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potofsoupHey.
So, 3 weeks ago, my account on tumblr got deleted with no explanation. I have written in support tickets and have not heard back, not even with an explanation. Nor do I expect to hear back. And just after I'd finished finding the bulk of my work and reblogging them onto potofsoup2@tumblr, and was contemplating posting new work there -- the Great Fuckening happens.
So. It's been a fun few weeks. I guess the good news is that I had a head start on mourning the loss of my tumblrs. (I keep remembering new things that I was a sole owner of and therefore lost, haha).
Anyway, hello again, DW. I'm actually kind of excited -- the main reason I'd gone to tumblr had been that my friends stopped posting here. If people move back, plus new friends that I made on tumblr -- my flist might be pretty active again!
Here is what I plan to do:
- I'll be posting new art here, and to AO3.
- Everything I post here will be public. Taking a page from tumblr, I have different accounts rather than a carefully moderated access list. My personal life blog remainssummercomfort, but I'll be following and commenting as potofsoup. All the names carry over from tumblr, so you should know where to find me. :)
- I'm also very interested in figuring out ways to use DW comms as a way to share art, so I plan to crosspost art to![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
stuckyfandom and capfanart, with a link back to a post here for commenting.
- I know that DW favors hiding long posts behind cuts, but I'm going to push back on that a little bit: I'll be putting 1 image outside of the cut, and the rest behind.
- Since there's no reblogging, I'm going to try for periodic roundup posts of stuff that I find cool (AKA "gotta close all those tabs").
Making suggestions to DW:
Did you guys know that there's a![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_suggestions? And that they'd previously discussed the possibility of adding reblog functionality?
Anyway, I plan to make some suggestion there once things settle down, and I hope others follow that community so that we can chime in when it's a feature that we're invested in! For example, I'd like to bring back the idea of reblogging, having a kudos feature, and some image handling suggestions. (foldered galleries might be nice, or putting AO3 on the list of hotlinkable sites for images < 1MB, or having the ability to buy more image hosting space.)
So, 3 weeks ago, my account on tumblr got deleted with no explanation. I have written in support tickets and have not heard back, not even with an explanation. Nor do I expect to hear back. And just after I'd finished finding the bulk of my work and reblogging them onto potofsoup2@tumblr, and was contemplating posting new work there -- the Great Fuckening happens.
So. It's been a fun few weeks. I guess the good news is that I had a head start on mourning the loss of my tumblrs. (I keep remembering new things that I was a sole owner of and therefore lost, haha).
Anyway, hello again, DW. I'm actually kind of excited -- the main reason I'd gone to tumblr had been that my friends stopped posting here. If people move back, plus new friends that I made on tumblr -- my flist might be pretty active again!
Here is what I plan to do:
- I'll be posting new art here, and to AO3.
- Everything I post here will be public. Taking a page from tumblr, I have different accounts rather than a carefully moderated access list. My personal life blog remains
summercomfort, but I'll be following and commenting as potofsoup. All the names carry over from tumblr, so you should know where to find me. :)- I'm also very interested in figuring out ways to use DW comms as a way to share art, so I plan to crosspost art to
stuckyfandom and capfanart, with a link back to a post here for commenting.- I know that DW favors hiding long posts behind cuts, but I'm going to push back on that a little bit: I'll be putting 1 image outside of the cut, and the rest behind.
- Since there's no reblogging, I'm going to try for periodic roundup posts of stuff that I find cool (AKA "gotta close all those tabs").
Making suggestions to DW:
Did you guys know that there's a
dw_suggestions? And that they'd previously discussed the possibility of adding reblog functionality?Anyway, I plan to make some suggestion there once things settle down, and I hope others follow that community so that we can chime in when it's a feature that we're invested in! For example, I'd like to bring back the idea of reblogging, having a kudos feature, and some image handling suggestions. (foldered galleries might be nice, or putting AO3 on the list of hotlinkable sites for images < 1MB, or having the ability to buy more image hosting space.)
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Date: 2018-12-10 07:21 am (UTC)and that's and excellent idea re: link roundups--i don't miss many of tumblr's features, but i was puzzled on how to share interesting posts that i'd found. i'm definitely going to be adopting this.
and, on the topic of tumblr's features... i actually consider it a perk that we can't reblog on dw. it means our reading pages won't get clogged with the same reblog over and over the way our dashboards did, and sure, ideas will go viral much more slowly, but i think that's good, too: we'll have time to actually process them before they get stale and overdone. there'll be an overall higher quality of content on our feeds as well, if there's a higher time/energy investment to sharing.
also, i'm kind of against dw getting a kudos feature. kudos are great and all, but all too often they encourage a minimum of participation rather than genuine engagement. of course, the ten percent rule will still apply wrt comments, but i'd rather have just comments.
that said, i've suggested in a couple other threads an alternative to a dedicated kudos button, where people can just comment with "<3" if they want a lower impact acknowledgement of the post. i got the idea from ao3, how commenting "second kudos" is becoming more and more accepted.
thoughts?
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Date: 2018-12-10 08:50 am (UTC)I think commenting with "<3" definitely works, especially since commenting is now in-page, whereas before you'd have to click-through. I'd like to push back a bit on the reblogs and kudos thing, though, because images really thrive on reblogs and kudos. It takes me 1 minute to read 250 words, but only 2 seconds to look at an image. If I've already spent a minute on reading the post, the cost of clicking comment and writing a comment doesn't seem that much more. But if I'm just scrolling through and see a pretty picture in 2 seconds, kudos and reblogs are a much more effective way of showing appreciation. I find this happening to me a lot on AO3, too -- people find it much easier to comment on my writing than my art.
The way I see reblogs working on DW is basically an exerpted post that links back to the original post for commenting, so the equivalent of posting "I read this cool thing and the link is here". Except with images, you don't have to click through. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That said, I think a combination of fanart comms and curated roundup posts might solve the problem of getting eyeballs to the right places.
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Date: 2018-12-10 03:59 pm (UTC)and that's a solid point about the benefit of reblogs/kudos for art rather than text, if we want dw to be a more art-friendly space then i could definitely see how having those functions would be a benefit. i just dislike how so often a "like" button prevents discussion on an immediate level, or how the social media overlords leverage like counts into social currency (not... that i think that will be much of a risk from the dw overlords...)
that makes a lot of sense for how dw might institute reblogs, and unlike tumblr's horrendous version, it would actually be beneficial to click the link because all the discussion would be threaded on the original post, and only the original post would ever be reblogged. verr nice.
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Date: 2018-12-11 03:05 pm (UTC)You could use Pocket! It's a thing that save articles/links for you, and it works on phones/desktops. And it's free!
Another one I've been trying out is Pinboard, which is a social bookmarking site and is pretty neat, but it DOES cost $11/year.
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Date: 2018-12-11 03:03 pm (UTC)I followed you on Tumblr, so I'm definitely subscribing to you here. <3