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1) There's really no way of keeping track of what I've submitted to

dw_suggestions, so I'm going to just briefly list them here:

----> a list of image-related features that I'd gladly pay for:
--------> more server space
--------> image tagging/gallery hosting
--------> a "whitelist" of sites that I can hotlink to (such as AO3)

----> an ability to do a "quick post" from the Reading Page. Basically, having a link next to "Reply" that brings up a quick post box, the way clicking on "Reply" brings up the quick comment box.
--------> I see this as a DW-friendly way of making the spreading of cool stuff easier, without going all the way to reblogging. Imagine scrolling down your dash and seeing something cool -- it'd be a pretty quick way of making a promo post linking to it, or copying a meme format, or whatever.

(BTW, I think people should submit things to the comm -- even if it's a very similar idea, it gives the developers a sense of how much people want a certain feature)

2) I am determined to make DW work! Here's what I'm doing:
----> I'm making sure that I'm consistently here, so that there is something for others to follow
----> I'm also slowly working down the MCU Fandom Lifeboat list of DW usernames and following a bunch of people. Even if those people's blogs are obviously just placeholders, I'm hoping that the very fact that I'm following them will tell them that there *is* an audience for their work on DW.
-----> OMG I love the quick comment feature, it's so great. I can scroll down my dash and just yell at people. :D!!

3) 2 quick links:

caramelchameleon 's post about Spider-Ham made me laugh and laugh and laugh: Are There Any Artists At Marvel Who Can Draw A Pig

I've been following Cat and Girl (

catandgirl_feed) forever, and their comics always toes that fine line between scathing social commentary and absurdism.

4) Hey, are there any folks who are still posting on tumblr that I should import as a feed?

I highly recommend folks to keep an eye on the

dw_suggestions comm: it's where people submit suggestions and the DW team uses the feedback there to gauge interest in features. For example, a recent one proposes using the @username syntax in addition to the current <user name="username">.

Anyway, here's some suggestions that I submitted just now:
- ability to crosspost to a DW community
- adding comments to Memories and creating round-up posts from Memories
- adding tagging and cropping to image uploads

There's actually an old suggestion about kudos: https://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/532315.html I haven't read the comments, but

And re: reblogs --
I think that tumblr reblogs have a few things conflated together — (a) to share the post with your followers, (b) to show appreciation for the post and creator, and (c) to add comments to the post.

For (b), it might be a quick “squee!” comment, and for (c), it might be a longer, more considered comment, followed by a post to your own blog with “I left a comment about this here”

For (a) sharing the post with your followers, the current way to do it on DW is to have a roundup post on DW, or just a post on your blog being like “I read this post, and it gave me feels”. The benefit of that is that it lowers the amount of reblog spam on your reading page, and actually encourages thoughtful comments. The downside of that is that it's currently hard to do (you have to manually copy the link, create new post, etc), and there's much less incentive to click through if it's an image.

Maybe one way to do it is that the reblogged post content automatically get put behind a cut, and you have to write an intro to it? That'd at least solve the spam issue. And of course rebloggability is opt-in.

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