Oh Dreamwidth....
Feb. 26th, 2025 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarasa_catWhile clicking around deep inside dreamwidth's settings for this account, I realized that there are a number of personal journals I subscribe to and am mutuals with (and often but not always folks I know on tumblr) for which I have gone COMPLETELY UNAWARE of whenever those journals have updated.
Trying to figure out what went wrong.
For years I relied on the LJ and then DW email notification option to know when journals updated.
I have since learned this doesn't always work, especially when a journal post is marked private when published and then later switched to a broader permission for reading.
But there appear to be at least a couple of edges cases that are a bit funky with notifications on DW...
One thing is entirely on me though: I STOPPED using my "Reading" page on DW during all of the time that I mostly connected via iOS (usually via my phone). Currently on a Windows10 gaming machine right now, poking around, realizing the obvious. The oh. The oohhhhh.
Well. Either I might spam older posts with grossly belated comments or I'll just be more attentive moving forward.
I really do want to make more use of this platform for Reasons.
Trying to figure out what went wrong.
For years I relied on the LJ and then DW email notification option to know when journals updated.
I have since learned this doesn't always work, especially when a journal post is marked private when published and then later switched to a broader permission for reading.
But there appear to be at least a couple of edges cases that are a bit funky with notifications on DW...
One thing is entirely on me though: I STOPPED using my "Reading" page on DW during all of the time that I mostly connected via iOS (usually via my phone). Currently on a Windows10 gaming machine right now, poking around, realizing the obvious. The oh. The oohhhhh.
Well. Either I might spam older posts with grossly belated comments or I'll just be more attentive moving forward.
I really do want to make more use of this platform for Reasons.
