The suggestions post

[denise]

Soon (for certain values of 'soon'), there will be a "suggestions generator", where you fill out forms and it will post an entry to this community for you, for discussion and the like.

Until then, if you've got something you'd like to suggest for Dreamwidth, you can leave it as a comment here! You can review our development roadmap explanation first, since it includes a lot of our upcoming big projects.

The Suggestions Generator is now live! Please fill out that form instead.

Comments

Re: More Twitter/Flickr integration

[pyrii]

There's is absolutely NO REASON why comment editing needs to be paid only, in fact the workaround of deleting the old comment and reposting a new one causes MORE database usage, MORE e-mail usage if set, and MORE bandwidth in loading pages etc. It just seems like a stupid way to try and push people into subscribing and again I thought Dreamwidth was meant to be different from LJ.

The ability to expose Dreamwidth to social networks seems like a great way to increase it's exposure and usage, so Twitter/facebook/etc integration seems like a great idea for the expansion of the service.

And lastly, I'm sure the DW photo service will be massively crippled for free users or even paid users, and when I have a paif FLickr account with years of pictures to use, the ability to post them in without having to dig out the code from the "All Sizes" button in flickr would make posting easier. My wordpress plugin allows the selection of a picture to post and size to post it as (Flickr automatically supplies various sizes) and ability to link to the flickr page/full photo depending on if people have allowed people to download originals.

I suppose this could be done with a Firefox plugin for uploading and posting pictures, but still, be interesting to see photo service support in Dreamwidth, would certainly save the creators some bandwidth.

Re: More Twitter/Flickr integration

[zvi]

Which specific Wordpress plugin do you use for this Flickr integration? If you have a link to the developer's page, that would be awesome.

(P.S. I would wager that, rather than deleting and reposting, most people post an add'l clarifying comment when they make an error, and that's a lesser database hit than editing or deleting/reposting.)

Re: More Twitter/Flickr integration

[pyrii]

Flickr Tag which is here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-tag/ uses AJAX and lightbox quite nicely to post in tags to parse. But I guess you could easily convert it to post proper static HTML.

My blog is hugely out of date, if I could import it as historical entries in my journal I would. http://blog.pixel-dragon.com/second-life/22/ here's an example post which looks like it needs fixing but still shows what the plugin does.

As far as comments go, it's basic functionality that has no real reason to be a premium feature. This practice annoys me and won't pay for an account in a service which does such things. Flickr got my money because even free users don't have that many restrictions, just that the last 200 pictures are shown and no HD video. But non-pro users don't have to clutter my pages or inbox with deletions, corrections or reposts because a basic feature of the site is restricted. There's probably far more trouble and cost in restricting it than just letting users correct typos or change information.

Re: Editing comments for free users

[cesy]

Does anyone know how big the database hit for editing comments actually is? I also think that this would be a good feature to give to free users if possible. I would certainly continue to pay for my account even if free users could edit comments, and I suspect that's true of most paid users.

Re: More Twitter/Flickr integration

[holyschist]

MarsEdit has a similar Flickr integration (as an example of an downloadable LJ client). Basically, I'd like to be able to browse my Flickr account from within the DW crossposter (or, in my case, I'd prefer an downloadable client), select the sizes I wanted to post, and do it all without having to flip around between windows manually copying URLs and code).