discussion of Dreamwidth features in MetaTalk

[brainwane]

Some MetaFilter members who currently discuss US politics in "megathreads" on the blue are discussing whether to try to move that kind of synthesis and discussion to some other platform(s), and I mentioned Dreamwidth communities. I'd love for folks here who have experience modding or administering DW communities to comment in that thread; darkstar and, later, TWinbrook8 have multiple comments asking questions that I could use help answering.

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[foxfirefey]

Ha no worries! I don't feel bad about it myself--that thread is pretty darn new so I don't feel too negligent.

I haven't in a while but I've been meaning to pick it back up--I have a weird problem where I'm trying to host my dev box on a subdomain and for some reason my journal subdomains redirect endlessly and I haven't quite figured it out yet! However, they do provide dreamhacks and I could get ahold of one and do development on it instead. I keep my eye out on the DW Discord where the insider crew hangs, and I can tell you that someone is making some good mobile changes that are being reviewed right now. One development thing we could do without much fuss if the site admins thumbs up is add Metafilter as a profile Other Site maybe? The tricky part about that is user profiles on MeFi don't use the username, but a number, so I'm not sure how we could link to the profile on MeFi.

And yeah, making a MeFi styling for the community that's mobile friendly will not be difficult, given how simple MeFi styling is, and I know S2 (wrote a lot of the wiki documentation on it actually) and can do more than just CSS skinning changes. So if, for instance, people didn't want user icons to show on comments or posts, or to have the info about a comment below the comment body, that could be arranged.

Megathread comm boosting

[brainwane]

Hey - will you be making a post here in this comm about megathread?

Re: Megathread comm boosting

[foxfirefey]

I should! I think I have an actual gameplan post that's worth posting about here now.