DreamWidth can has In House Image Hosting
Oh my! For people who haven't read the news yet, here's the skinny: not only does DreamWidth have expanded, across the board Https, but it now has image hosting for all account levels, with a 500Mb capacity. The images can be embedded in your DW posts and will appear in your LJ crossposts, but it's no Flickr/Photobucket/DeviantArt. You can't export them anywhere that DW can't crosspost to, so nix on discussion boards, self hosted sites and the like. Take it for a spin! Here, upload images, view all your uploaded images, and manage your images.
Testing it now. First thing, it requires JavaScript to function and it appears that you can only upload one image at a time. Next are the sizes. The first embed code it gave me, right after I uploaded, was this:
Apparently an icon size. Next I went to the 'view your gallery' link and I was offered two codes:
Apparently full size. And this:
Called a "thumbnail embed". Looking at the /200x200/ part of the code, that's, like, squishing my landscape picture square. I want something more like 640 wide. A dropdown menu with several size options appears with JS enabled, but the code offered is again a square (640x640). Drat, I think it's always height x width, or was it the other way around? Nix that, it's w x h. So the source is 2000 x 1195. Fancy mathematics tells me... oh pooh on the math, the Irfanview resizer wizard gives me 640 x 382. Huzzah! Are we having FUN yet? Replacing /200x200/ in the "thumbnail" code with /640x382/ gives me:
Did that work? No, it didn't. Oddly, the pictures are not posting square, and /640x382/ is not kosher. 8^p So, swapping in /640x640/ instead gives me:
Now that's the way (un-huh, un-huh) I like it (un-huh, un-huh).
Here's a clever twist. Say someone likes to comment on your public posts but has resorted to using the Private Message thing or even email because they don't want anyone but you reading what they wrote. You have to option of making all their comments private via the admin console by selecting that username to be screened by default. After that, a conversation that starts with a screened comment remains invisible to all except to you and screened username. The downside is that if you're forgetful, mean or just plain angry, you don't need their permission to unscreen their comments in your journal for all to see. See this news update for all the syntax.
X-posted from: Frith@dreamwidth
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Testing it now. First thing, it requires JavaScript to function and it appears that you can only upload one image at a time. Next are the sizes. The first embed code it gave me, right after I uploaded, was this:
Apparently an icon size. Next I went to the 'view your gallery' link and I was offered two codes:
Apparently full size. And this:
Called a "thumbnail embed". Looking at the /200x200/ part of the code, that's, like, squishing my landscape picture square. I want something more like 640 wide. A dropdown menu with several size options appears with JS enabled, but the code offered is again a square (640x640). Drat, I think it's always height x width, or was it the other way around? Nix that, it's w x h. So the source is 2000 x 1195. Fancy mathematics tells me... oh pooh on the math, the Irfanview resizer wizard gives me 640 x 382. Huzzah! Are we having FUN yet? Replacing /200x200/ in the "thumbnail" code with /640x382/ gives me:
Did that work? No, it didn't. Oddly, the pictures are not posting square, and /640x382/ is not kosher. 8^p So, swapping in /640x640/ instead gives me:
Now that's the way (un-huh, un-huh) I like it (un-huh, un-huh).
Here's a clever twist. Say someone likes to comment on your public posts but has resorted to using the Private Message thing or even email because they don't want anyone but you reading what they wrote. You have to option of making all their comments private via the admin console by selecting that username to be screened by default. After that, a conversation that starts with a screened comment remains invisible to all except to you and screened username. The downside is that if you're forgetful, mean or just plain angry, you don't need their permission to unscreen their comments in your journal for all to see. See this news update for all the syntax.
X-posted from: Frith@dreamwidth
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