Low Effort Interaction Here on Dreamwidth
Saturday, 8 December 2018 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kSince Dreamwidth’s design and code are old enough to vote, it lacks the easy interaction for lurkers–the Like, Star, Boost or +1 buttons.
Although I’m a chatty person, I sometimes draft and erase and draft and erase many comments because of anxiety.
It’s fine to comment with just <3 or listening or cool
All users get 15 icons, and I often switch mine up as part of my comments.
https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqcat=icons
If you have a paid account, you can create a Kudos button for your posts. Here’s one I stole from melannen
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 33So, what did you think?
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Date: 08/12/2018 10:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 09/12/2018 04:48 pm (UTC)<3
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Date: 08/12/2018 11:02 pm (UTC)I don't know where one goes to get icons these days, but I like the idea of getting back into using them as part of the context of the comment (until then, wolfermelon 5ever).
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Date: 09/12/2018 05:52 pm (UTC)wolfermelon 5ever that’s burned into my memory now lol
Making great icons requires great skill. Fortunately, making so-so icons is easy, as I have learned, using nothing more elaborate than Preview on Mac.
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Date: 09/12/2018 09:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 09/12/2018 09:34 pm (UTC)Just stumbled on https://sylvaine.dreamwidth.org/153384.html where they find 3000 icon-related communities!
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Date: 09/12/2018 09:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/12/2018 04:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/12/2018 09:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 09/12/2018 12:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 09/12/2018 04:45 pm (UTC)and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
melannen is one smart cookie!
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Date: 12/12/2018 04:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 09/12/2018 05:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 09/12/2018 04:45 pm (UTC)Always glad to be helpful
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Date: 09/12/2018 01:20 pm (UTC)- Cool
- Yay!
- Boo
- Wow
- Aww!
- Huh.
- Yeah!
- Damn.
- Hugs
- Right!
- Nope.
- Sweet!
I use icons that represent me in some way. Often I'll try to use the most fitting one. I do not use photographs of other people as my icon; that just feels odd to me. I'm probably atypical in that.
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Date: 09/12/2018 04:44 pm (UTC)Those are all excellent words!
I know LJ didn't have "Like" buttons when DW forked—I can't speak to the conscious decision aspect, and would love to know.
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Date: 09/12/2018 03:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/12/2018 10:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 06/12/2022 05:41 pm (UTC)which reminds me of:
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which I saved in Typinator, a macOS macro program. Copy the following text to make it happen elseweb