Inaugural post

[injygo]

This is a post intended to lessen the activation energy necessary for me to post. Note that I'm still figuring out tags, comments, notifications, etc.

To help me figure out the comment system, please leave a brief comment about exactly one of the following:

• your favorite animal
• the last book you fell in love with and why
• your opinion of eliezer yudkowsky
• whether you love the color of the sky

Comments

[deusvulture]

Also, you might want to be careful with tags, since I think DW limits your blog to a lifetime cap of 1000 unique tags(!)

[injygo]

That's ridiculous! Can you delete tags from older posts to free up more slots?

[sophus]

You can delete old tags, and furthermore, the tag management system is way more functional than tumblr's. Way, way more functional. Go to tags > manage tags (or here) to find the interface: you can rename, merge, delete, and several other functions in only a few clicks.

Also, tags here are hierarchical; if you have the tags e.g. "holidays:xmas" and "holidays:hanukkah", both will be in the "holiday" supertag as well as their own tags.

[lb_lee]

Hey, I just want to note that the tags in Dreamwidth have a very different purpose than on tumblr; I've been on Dreamwidth (and the platform inspired by it, with similar tag limits) for almost twelve years and never come close to running dry on tags. (Also, maybe because I have a paid account, my limit is apparently 1500. I have only a little over a hundred at current.)

Tags on Dreamwidth are PURELY for your own internal categorization process. They are not global, used for commentary, or used to find like-minded folks. (THAT duty is pulled more by the interests listed on your profile page. AFAIK, you can easily search for users who have "writing" in their interests. You can NOT search for people who use "writing" tags. This also helps avoid the whole "people using a tag to hate on the thing rather than celebrate the thing." Someone might have "Tony Stark" listed as an interest just so they can hate on him, but... I haven't really seen that? It doesn't seem to be a social more on Dreamwidth.)

It took me ages to get used to tumblr's tagging system, and I hated it. (Forgot whether you tagged something scifi or sci-fi? TOO BAD FOR YOU AHAHAHA YOU JUST HAVE TO CHECK ALL VARIATIONS. YOU CAN NOT BATCH EDIT OR DELETE. SUCKS TO BE YOUUUUU. Oh, and for some reason hyphenated sayings don't end up tagged properly because reasons and nobody tells you this?)

Dreamwidth not only allows you to delete tags, it allows you to batch delete, batch rename, batch lump tags together (so, for instance, you might squish 'sci-fi' and 'fantasy' together for 'sff' with a few button-clicks) and probably some other functionality I don't know about yet, since I figured out my tag system pretty early on and rarely needed to do much overhauling.

You can manage your tags here: https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/tags

You can also, if you're more hardcore than me, have hierarchical tags. One of my friends (who uses it; you can just check her DW for a look at what hierarchical tags look like) did a 101 on it here: https://lj-writes.dreamwidth.org/77804.html

Hope that's helpful!

[another_normal_anomaly]

Noooooooo what?! What if I want to talk about more than 1000 different subjects? Boo. Hopefully they're at least more easily searchable than on tumblr.

[lb_lee]

Oh, you don't use tags to search for people on Dreamwidth. They're purely internal cataloging purposes. It's a very different set-up from tumblr. I wrote more on it earlier in the thread: https://injygo.dreamwidth.org/496.html?thread=12528#cmt12528