Most of the layouts need a lot of work, I won't lie. I tinkered with my old layout for months before I felt satisfied with it. But at least they make it easy to fiddle, so I'd go in, tweak something, live with it for a day or two. Lather, rise, repeat. I decided to try a new style because I'm looking for something that'll work a bit better on mobile, and I'm reminded of just how many settings I messed with last time to get what I wanted.
>>Other point - DW has no galleries. Yes I have a photobucket account, but LJ is about a million times easier and more convenient. (I use the old style which is far superior when it comes to images.) So that's a major stumbling block when it comes to moving...
Yeah, this would be a major headache for me if I'd ever used it, but I never had a paid account, so it's always been Photobucket for me anyway. Now Photobucket, which has always been a flaming trash pile, has, for reasons I cannot decipher, become completely unusable in the past week. I've tried it on two different browsers, and neither will actually let me copy the image links to be able to embed in a site. So I've had to go looking for alternatives . . .
Right now I'm trying out PostImage (postimg.org). So far a massive improvement over Photobucket. Much faster and less clunky. Very minimal. The sign-up process was the most intelligent I've ever seen anywhere: you give them your email address, they email you a password, and you're done. That's literally the whole process. Very nice.
Speaking of unusable, I tried to clean things up over on LJ a bit last night and, dear god, pretty much anything in site skin is a wreck right now. I can't see comments on site skin pages, I can't edit my profile, I can't edit my circles, and I can't use half the controls on my flist page . . . I tried, world. I tried.
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>>Other point - DW has no galleries. Yes I have a photobucket account, but LJ is about a million times easier and more convenient. (I use the old style which is far superior when it comes to images.) So that's a major stumbling block when it comes to moving...
Yeah, this would be a major headache for me if I'd ever used it, but I never had a paid account, so it's always been Photobucket for me anyway. Now Photobucket, which has always been a flaming trash pile, has, for reasons I cannot decipher, become completely unusable in the past week. I've tried it on two different browsers, and neither will actually let me copy the image links to be able to embed in a site. So I've had to go looking for alternatives . . .
Right now I'm trying out PostImage (postimg.org). So far a massive improvement over Photobucket. Much faster and less clunky. Very minimal. The sign-up process was the most intelligent I've ever seen anywhere: you give them your email address, they email you a password, and you're done. That's literally the whole process. Very nice.
Speaking of unusable, I tried to clean things up over on LJ a bit last night and, dear god, pretty much anything in site skin is a wreck right now. I can't see comments on site skin pages, I can't edit my profile, I can't edit my circles, and I can't use half the controls on my flist page . . . I tried, world. I tried.