Happiness online: We can dream, right?

[matgb]

Several things online have made me happy today, most of them related to the previously mentioned DreamWidth project.

Firstly, when designing the site navigation structure, they used a card sorting usability test to get it right, and came up with this navigation scheme, based around a design by grrliz. I've used my LJ OpenID to login at the site, and

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[melsykes]

No, you're quite right, most religious types are crazy bigotted loons! :)

[matgb]

'Fey tells me D wants someone to set up a separate server running the codebase to test the code in different circumstances too.

Which means my idea of running our own install is something they actually want, which is nice. Now all I gotta do is get finance; I'll wait until they're on open beta though.

[andrewducker]

I'm really looking forward to Dreamwidth - so long as I can find a way to post to both it and LJ simultaneously.

[matgb]

I suspect there'll be a client or a cross poster. The Wordpress crossposter is good, it puts links back to your main post, personally I'd prefer to have the conversation in one place, which should be doable, even for polls, eventually.

One of the reasons I'm happy is that 'fey is heavily involved, and it was her I was working on for lj2wordpress, which was I think always a bit too much of a pipedream. Her list of wants is pretty close to being implemented, and it's a distributed model designed for multiple nodes, which is even better.

[mooism]

What the alt text for my userpics should be:

• "avatar" or "user picture" --- when viewing someone's userpic page
  
• "[mooism]" --- in normal use, when my username is not already nearby
  
• "" --- in normal use, when my username *is* already nearby
  

The important thing about your userpic is not that it features some 19th century guy with a hat, a moustache, and a bomb. The important thing is that it represents you. So when people can't see your userpic, the important thing is not to describe your userpic, the important thing is to provide something else that represents you.

I'm arguing about the colour of the bike shed, sorry.

[matgb]

Ah, but I have over 100 pics, many of which don't represent me, they're both fandom related in some way and represent a mood or added content.

My keywords would normally make good alt text, but that's not always the case, and this makes people think a bit more. I'd have your alt text as "photo of mooism" so that it's clear.

[matgb]

I found it froze a few times, but if it had definitely stopped (by looking at the journal page on WP), I just hit refresh on the import page, and it got everything.

It didn't finish until after I'd hit post and got these comments though, so there are a bunch of comments on my queue that are assigned to teh wrong post, not that that really matters. It's nice to know I now have a backup of my whole journal on three different servers in an industry standard format though, just in case.