DW tips for G+ users
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kate_nepveuThis is a post for G+ users who are trialing DW in light of G+'s upcoming shutdown.
- The create-entries beta is much more mobile-friendly. Turn it on here.
- You can't use rich-text in the create-entries beta; however, you can use Markdown by putting "!markdown" (no quotes) on the first line by itself. In addition to the standard Markdown syntax, you can refer to someone's DW account by putting @ before their username.
- You can make the reading components of the site more mobile-friendly with solarbird's style.
- DW splits access--who reads your stuff--and subscriptions--who you read. If you need to go more fine-grained, you can grant partial access through circles and you can trim down your reading through filters.
- If you want people to plus-one your posts, you can copy-paste this poll code into the end of a post (EDIT: I didn't realize that creating polls is a paid feature, sorry!:
<poll name='' isanon='no' whovote='all' whoview='all'>
<poll-question type='radio'>
+1?
<poll-item>+1</poll-item>
</poll-question>
</poll> - You can post by email (which can also use Markdown); turn it on and then check out the details.
- If you're writing from someplace that does bookmarklets, here's one for signal-boosting DW posts within DW.
- DW does host images, but the quota's so low that it's not really useful at this point.
Let me know if you have questions!
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20
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Date: 2019-02-01 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-01 01:42 am (UTC)No problem! Glad to help.
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Date: 2019-02-01 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-01 03:32 am (UTC)interesting! I assume this'd be in your dreamwidth tag if anything happens? I shall track it, then, thanks!
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Date: 2019-02-01 03:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-01 03:34 am (UTC)thanks!
(also, I stole the +1 poll idea from someone else and I have no idea who at this point!)
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Date: 2019-02-01 03:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-01 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-01 02:00 am (UTC)Yeah, it's incomplete--most notably the lack of a rich text editor--so it's opt-in for now!
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Date: 2019-02-01 02:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-01 02:30 am (UTC)Oh wait, that's weird! This post uses "!markup" and I just toggled beta testing off and on and it didn't change it--which it shouldn't. What if you do that? I wonder if it's a style thing or people doing it wrong?
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Date: 2019-02-01 02:58 am (UTC)Wait. OK. Brain.
1) It's !markdown (which you knew anyway), and 2) the person who's using it uses !markup, instead. I will mention this to them at some point.
ETA: Which also means I don't have any issue with the other people using it, which is a relief in terms of beta testing.
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Date: 2019-02-01 03:00 am (UTC)I did know but I totally failed to notice the difference when you said it so it's a very easy mistake to make, apparently!
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Date: 2019-02-01 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-02 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-02 05:13 pm (UTC)Hope it helps!
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Date: 2019-02-02 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-02 06:33 pm (UTC)You'd have to paste it every time, I'm pretty sure! I very much doubt the advanced style code would encompass this.
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Date: 2019-02-02 06:36 pm (UTC)