Headscratching over image uploads

[dismallyoriented]

One of the downsides of trying to port posts from one online platform over to another, is that differences between platforms have made the transfer difficult. A lot of my effortposts (the ones I'm most proud of, anyhow) were ones that made ample use of images. Not sure how or if I want to keep those same images for all of my posts - certainly anything I write for dreamwidth now is going to be less image heavy. But I did originally draft those posts with the assumption of having plenty of visual aids, and now I'm stuck debating with myself on how to adapt them.

I should also probably save "dO talks" for the more commentary/personal posts. The more bloggy ones as opposed to the essays or something.

[Edit: Also, somehow the post I made before this one has been time-stamped after the post I just made? Now I'm curious if retroactive dating is something I can do. That'd be neat]

Comments

[paradox_in_flux]

you can in fact retroactively date posts. it doesn't seem to be a feature carried forward in the post entry beta, but you can edit the date in the old format and set it to whatever the hell you want, including in the past or future. including in the comedically distant past or future

as for image hosting, yeah that's a major platform difference. it's odd to see a platform where images are treated with the same amount of care to bandwidth and file storage as in the days before microblogging social media and etc normalized image-heavy posting. it's definitely more sustainable imo (and i'd wager it's part of the reason dreamwidth is still trucking) but it's a significant change, especially in current era where the image hosting sites that filled that hotlinking image-hosting niche are mostly dead or somehow still clinging to twisted, accursed life (looks judgmentally at imgur)

also, hey internet stranger

-Mercury

[dismallyoriented]

Hey internet stranger who i've definitely never seen or heard before in my life ever.

[lb_lee]

Yeah, before pinned posts people would future-date posts to keep them at the top. (It's especially fun to find old defunct accounts who thought that 2010 was impossibly far in the future.)

And yeah, image hosting is definitely one of Dreamwidth's weak points. I do suspect that bandwidth care is why it's able to keep going the way it has, though.

[dismallyoriented]

That is Such a baby internet thing to do, lol. Unfortunately the march of time comes for us all.

[lb_lee]

You can still find accounts here with them! Dated 3008 and such. There are limited numbers of sticky posts allowed, and some people want more!

[thegreatratsby]

I host my images on postimages.org and have found that to be pretty reliable! you should theoretically be able to host them on something like gdrive, I haven't tried that though.