Tales of a Librarian

1) In a follow-up to my post the other day about creating the Kudos footer, florianschild has created a browser extension to add it automatically to your posts.

2) In response to some questions about following a tag sitewide (something one could do on Pillowfort), I thought I'd take a look at the Latest Things page since I was betting that Friday five would show up today.

And indeed it has. What I was hoping is that one can substitute other tags and make them come up in chronological order. For example, I used https://www.dreamwidth.org/latest?tag=pillowfort to find posts about Pillowfort. But this only worked because Pillowfort is already a major tag in today's posts. I tried substituting "Merlin" instead and nothing came up.

So the good news is, it's technically possible but the bad news is that there seems to be no option to use it outside of the Latest feed.

3) Speaking of the Friday Five, I'd like to introduce it to the Blanket Box. I think FF is probably Dreamwidth's version of the Q&A meme and, as its name suggests, comes out weekly. So for any Pillowforters looking for things to post about, these are always available.

4) I have not been to a Michael's in quite some time, and thought I haven't missed much. It seems to be pivoting from a store for crafters to a home décor one that still carries some crafting items. ( Read more... )

5) Now that the surprise about PF's news is passing, I wanted to circle around to something which stood out to me in the closing announcement:

"In retrospect, I think the site never really recovered from the security incident in 2021. We had great momentum going up to that point, but after we had to take the site down for several weeks, the buzz and word of mouth never came back no matter how much we tried." ( Read more... )

1) I'm really delighted that, while virtually every Pillowforter trying out Dreamwidth is in some shock over the interface and limitations, that people have been finding things they really like as well. As someone who has long used both, there are things we won't get back from the loss. But I am heartened that as long as people are here, PF will not be gone for good.

2) I haven't decided for sure what to do about my Pillowfort posts, but my inclination is not to do anything. I didn't have to decide with my LJ work, since it all got imported here, as did my few years at InsaneJournal. And I didn't post much in other places before they went away (or I did). But what I'd likely most want to keep is too difficult to track down, which is discussions and more in-depth posts. The only tag I knew for sure would turn something up is Pillowfort itself. ( Read more... )

2) Then another post was actually about changes at Dreamwidth which seems really relevant right now ( Read more... )

What's a blanket box?

A blanket box is a set of prompts to help you to build your Dreamwidth! They all have a theme and this one's theme is you and Dreamwidth! To take part, copy the questions and create your own post, with a link back to the questions post. Other blanket boxes are at pillowfortu_haul.

The Rules

The first rule is that there are no rules.
You can answer as long or as short as you want, delete prompts, add your own, or not answer certain prompts at all.

The Blankets

When do you visit Dreamwidth during a day? (Do you visit every day?)

I do visit every day, and even made an effort to do so during my recent trip. While at home I usually get on around noon time and during the trip it was in early evening.

What's the first thing you do? ( Read more... )

1) I am SO sad to hear that Pillowfort will be shutting down in December. It's the only site I've used extensively besides Dreamwidth (and LJ before it, though I have been gone from LJ longer than I was doing much other than crossposting). However I am not surprised. ( Read more... )

2) Speaking of site survivals and internet time -- Slate survives: "Slate’s homepage has long functioned as a “fossil of what the internet was during that time,” said Ivylise Simones, Slate’s creative director. In 1996, Slate was trying to figure out what a magazine on the internet should even look like; in 2026, it’s among the last general-interest digital-native news sites, and print magazines are dying out. “Salon is one of our only lasting contemporaries,” Frey noted."

I remember when both of these were founded, and it's good to know that despite the tough environment for text-media (print is less than half of what it was, both for newspapers and magazines) that there are success stories as well.

3) Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All. Seems one can never underestimate greed, or the assumption that big money will never be held responsible.

1) Watched the first two episodes available of VisionQuest. Though I have watched all the Marvel (and Star Wars) live action shows, I was particularly pleased with the start of this one, since I was completely unspoiled and only knew it was a series about Vision. ( Read more... )

2) I knew next to nothing about Oasis, and didn't learn a lot more from its "Don't Look Back in Anger" documentary. But as someone a little older than they are, I found the central focus on reconciliation and the things that endure a good choice. ( Read more... )

3) I still think of my niece asking me how I'd fill my time once retired. I found it a funny question as I was fairly sure I'd have plenty of problems to troubleshoot, it's just that I'd have more time to deal with them. I thought of this yet again after we heard dripping from an evening's rain Thursday night. ( Read more... )