Well, there's that

[gwyn]

One good thing that's coming out of the whole shitstorm about the fanfiction survey fiasco? I'm finding all these cool people posting stuff on different threads that I want to add to my reading list. You wouldn't think it'd have an upside, but hey. There it is.

Yesterday was kind of a weird day. I took Dad down to visit his cousin in Olympia, who's 88 and whose daughter, a few years older than me, recently took him out of an assisted care facility after finding him to be mistreated rather badly. He didn't really remember Dad at first, even though they were great good friends when I was a kid, and doesn't often remember his daughter, but he did have some good moments where he and Dad were able to reminisce a bit. It made me happy that Dad was happy, and my cousin said that when she told her father we were coming down, his face lit up, but it also made me abysmally sad about everything that's got away over the years, about failing parents and the loss of my sister and just everything in between. Dad's four years younger than George, and he's all kind of bent over and using a cane and I noticed that the last black hairs on his head are all gone now, and it's snow white and he's largely bald. It's scary and sad and I wish so badly that sis_r was here to help me with this (not that she would, she'd just bitch me out for being a whiner and a depressing freak, but you know, that's how we were with each other).

I'm trying to use my d-dub account more often, as I haven't used it at all really, but I'm just so intimidated about uploading my icons. Someone said there was batch uploading... but I can't find it (maybe because I'm using Safari?). And I'm really intimidated by some of the things like commands for seeing comments made in one journal or another... Are there resources for people who are too stupid to do anything on their own (something along the lines of "A is for apple")?

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[kass]

I know it's possible to upload icons in a batch, though I didn't do it that way; I had all of my icons in a folder on my computer, so I just went to the upload-icons page and browsed for each one. I think that when I imported all of my old entries over from lj, their icons imported with them, also. I don't know whether that's helpful, but it's what I've got...

But here's what I know about putting a footer on crossposts which will show how many comments there are on the dw version of the post: to create/edit that, you go here: http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=othersites

I have it set to always include the footer on my crossposts at lj, and here's the text of that footer:

[read %%comment_image%% comments at Dreamwidth |  post a comment at Dreamwidth | How to use openID ]

If you copy-and-paste that into the little box provided, you'll see a version of what it'll look like just below the box, so you can tweak the code and the text to your heart's content. I got this text from the_shoshanna and modified it slightly to make me happy. :-)

[gwyn]

I'll try to give it a whirl, but if I have to add it to each crosspost, I have a feeling it will never happen. I'm at the "give me a ticky box or radio button or give me death" phase in my online life. It's like my brain just can't handle anymore thinking.

[kass]

Oh, no, you don't have to add it each time -- I'm sorry I was unclear! There's an option you can select, for "Add the footer to the post on the other site:" -- just pull the dropdown menu to "always." Then you add the code to the little text box, and you'll see a preview of it below the text box so you can tweak/edit as you wish, and then save the setting, and you're done -- it'll happen automatically from then on. :-)

[gwyn]

That's awesomesauce! Totally fulfills my need for a ticky box. ;-)