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Three Dreamwidth things
May. 2nd, 2019 02:13 am1) DW is 10 years old today! https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/39419.html announces a collection of incremental improvements, but also some quota increases for paid users.
2) I rediscovered a super cool feature: The network reading page. This shows all posts made by friends and friends-of-friends. Except that's my network reading page; you can find yours in the top nav menu under Read -> Network Page. (You can look at mine too, though, if that floats your boat!) I don't know exactly how it works—DW separates "friend" into "grants access" and "subscribes to", and I'm not sure which of those is used here. Probably it is people who grant access to people who grant access to you. Anyway, it's a nice way to find people you might already know but didn't know the username of. (Or just people with similar interests.)
I'd love it if they could add a "friends of friends" post privacy level, which would make that network page even more useful.
3) I finally looked up the full docs for how to filter your Reading Page. I already knew how to make a custom Reading Page so that I can just include the people I don't already have in my feed reader, but apparently there's also a way to exclude entries by tag. For instance, I could say "yeah, I do want davis_square entries, but not the ones tagged 'airplane-noise'". Tag filtering is a paid feature, so heads-up on that.
2) I rediscovered a super cool feature: The network reading page. This shows all posts made by friends and friends-of-friends. Except that's my network reading page; you can find yours in the top nav menu under Read -> Network Page. (You can look at mine too, though, if that floats your boat!) I don't know exactly how it works—DW separates "friend" into "grants access" and "subscribes to", and I'm not sure which of those is used here. Probably it is people who grant access to people who grant access to you. Anyway, it's a nice way to find people you might already know but didn't know the username of. (Or just people with similar interests.)
I'd love it if they could add a "friends of friends" post privacy level, which would make that network page even more useful.
3) I finally looked up the full docs for how to filter your Reading Page. I already knew how to make a custom Reading Page so that I can just include the people I don't already have in my feed reader, but apparently there's also a way to exclude entries by tag. For instance, I could say "yeah, I do want davis_square entries, but not the ones tagged 'airplane-noise'". Tag filtering is a paid feature, so heads-up on that.
