1) Rain. 2) Dreamwidth. 3) Fanfic article.
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No, nothing to do with each other, but titles help me find posts later.
2) Every time LJ institutes a new round of stupidity, it becomes the last straw for a bunch of people. This time it's no comment headings (for communities or for unpaid users? not sure if it's either or both.) And, apparently, no preview for comments. If you've reached the jumping-off point, Dreamwidth is allowing folks to create a free account without an invite code; this opportunity runs till the end of the year. (Or unless they get too many spammers.)
If it's past the end of the year, and a community mod wants to set up a community at DW, it's possible to obtain a "community invite code". Just contact support, explain what you want, and the same code is good for however many members want to create an account.
ETA: SUBJECT LINES FOR COMMS Found in a comment at ratherastory, here's a partial fix from stardustcities on tumblr:
A SUBJECT LINE FIX FOR LIVEJOURNAL KINK MEMES.
1 - Make sure the community’s account level is either Plus or Paid.
2 - Switch the community’s layout to Minimalism - Georgia.
3 - Go to Customize your theme -> Display and ensure that the “Disable customized comment pages for your journal” option is checked “No.”
Ta-da! It’s not perfect, but you’ll have comment pages that look like the old ones, and you’ll have subject lines.
Hope that helps some comm mods who need it.
1) Sunday night, I got .7 inches of rain -- slow and soaking, just the kind we need. It fooled me, though. After living out here for so many years, I can make a pretty accurate estimate of the rainfall by the size of the puddles around the place -- usually to within .1 inch. Monday morning, my estimate was off by 50%; I pegged at .3 or .35 inches before I checked the rain gauge. I guess the ground has been so dry that, even without vegetation to drink it in, the ground just soaks up the moisture, leaving smaller puddles to observe.
3) I like to save positive-leaning "mainstream" articles about fanfic, in case I ever need ammunition. Found from
wneleh, Canada's Daily Gleaner says, When you were little, did you ever play games where you pretended to be your favourite movie character, or TV hero, or someone from your favourite book?
Of course you did, everyone does. It's part of the fun of the imagination: the creator makes the world, and you go play in it. The story may have ended on the screen or page, but your imagination keeps it alive. These stories are the answer to the eternal question:
"And then what happened?" There's a term for written stories like this, stories meant to be shared by other fans of the original work. It's called fan fiction. If you've seen the movie Shakespeare in Love or read the book The Seven Per Cent Solution, then you've been exposed to fan fiction.
Text of article, in case it disappears. Locked for now.
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Comment at Dreamwidth by Name, Anonymous, or Open Id -
No, nothing to do with each other, but titles help me find posts later.
2) Every time LJ institutes a new round of stupidity, it becomes the last straw for a bunch of people. This time it's no comment headings (for communities or for unpaid users? not sure if it's either or both.) And, apparently, no preview for comments. If you've reached the jumping-off point, Dreamwidth is allowing folks to create a free account without an invite code; this opportunity runs till the end of the year. (Or unless they get too many spammers.)
If it's past the end of the year, and a community mod wants to set up a community at DW, it's possible to obtain a "community invite code". Just contact support, explain what you want, and the same code is good for however many members want to create an account.
ETA: SUBJECT LINES FOR COMMS Found in a comment at ratherastory, here's a partial fix from stardustcities on tumblr:
A SUBJECT LINE FIX FOR LIVEJOURNAL KINK MEMES.
1 - Make sure the community’s account level is either Plus or Paid.
2 - Switch the community’s layout to Minimalism - Georgia.
3 - Go to Customize your theme -> Display and ensure that the “Disable customized comment pages for your journal” option is checked “No.”
Ta-da! It’s not perfect, but you’ll have comment pages that look like the old ones, and you’ll have subject lines.
Hope that helps some comm mods who need it.
1) Sunday night, I got .7 inches of rain -- slow and soaking, just the kind we need. It fooled me, though. After living out here for so many years, I can make a pretty accurate estimate of the rainfall by the size of the puddles around the place -- usually to within .1 inch. Monday morning, my estimate was off by 50%; I pegged at .3 or .35 inches before I checked the rain gauge. I guess the ground has been so dry that, even without vegetation to drink it in, the ground just soaks up the moisture, leaving smaller puddles to observe.
3) I like to save positive-leaning "mainstream" articles about fanfic, in case I ever need ammunition. Found from
wneleh, Canada's Daily Gleaner says, When you were little, did you ever play games where you pretended to be your favourite movie character, or TV hero, or someone from your favourite book?
Of course you did, everyone does. It's part of the fun of the imagination: the creator makes the world, and you go play in it. The story may have ended on the screen or page, but your imagination keeps it alive. These stories are the answer to the eternal question:
"And then what happened?" There's a term for written stories like this, stories meant to be shared by other fans of the original work. It's called fan fiction. If you've seen the movie Shakespeare in Love or read the book The Seven Per Cent Solution, then you've been exposed to fan fiction.
Text of article, in case it disappears. Locked for now.
.
Comment at Dreamwidth by Name, Anonymous, or Open Id -