Wormhole Moon

[yourlibrarian]

This past month we tried to get photos of the Super Snow Moon but we had a very cloudy sky (as often seems to be the case at night) so opportunities were limited. However, I think it came out perhaps all the cooler for it because I swear it looks like some kind of interdimensional portal opening in the sky!

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Did you get sucked through? What's on the other side?

[yourlibrarian]

Apparently it's the Star Trek mirror verse.

[minoanmiss]

Meep! Be careful and keep your dagger ready!

giggles

[shadowkat]

How do you post photos on DW? I keep trying and flailing.

[yourlibrarian]

Since I've been using Pillowfort I've mostly been hotlinking from them there, but DW does have its own photo hosting which I've used a few times as well. And I've hotlinked to a Google Photos account in the past.

[shadowkat]

Okay, have yet to find DW's photo-hosting, is this only for paid subscriptions? I tried Google Photo, didn't work this round. Not on Pillowfort, having troubles keeping track of the social media forums that I am on.

[yourlibrarian]

Quite possibly, yes. The link is here: https://www.dreamwidth.org/file/new

Google Photos is doable but takes extra steps. They don't automatically give you an embedable link so I've used a workaround. If you're interested I can list some steps for you.

[ranunculus]

I host my photos on SmugMug which does cost money, but it works really, really well for posting.
If you are posting from an outside link, DO use the Rich Text link button as the HTML link has been broken for some years.
Using the Rich Text mode for pictures is especially annoying since the only way I can see to do a cut, and thus spare readers endless pics, is to use the HTML command!!

[shadowkat]

Yeah, I don't want to pay. I tried Photobucket, and then they charged, and I thought, eh, no. Then I tried Google photo, but that didn't work this round.

Interesting that the HTML link is broken -- because that explains a lot. It really doesn't work well to use rich text.

Dang it. Sometimes I miss Livejournal, I could do polls on LJ and post photos without any issues. Sure it was run by evil homophobic Russians who wanted to co-opt my content and bombard me with weird spam and ads, but hey I could post pictures and do polls without any issues.

[ranunculus]

I was an early adopter of both LJ and Photobucket, so I'm really familiar with both.
LJ was, from the very first, extremely insensitive to most of their users, making abrupt changes with no notice or general input. DW may have its problems, but at least it is very respectful of its users.

I'd say that Photobucket has been much the same. They repeatedly reorganized my photos and made changes to their system that resulted in my being unable to access their site from my Linux machine (before they ever went live to the public I did give them feedback on this issue - they told me it wasn't important). Three or four years ago I had had enough and got a Smug Mug account. Night and Day. Lots of support from the site. Extremely easy import of my whole Photobucket account (though I did have to re-establish links to DW) NO reorganization of my photos. I suppose you get what you pay for, though I did pay for Photobucket for a while, until they "upgraded" the site so I couldn't access it one time too many.

[shadowkat]

I agree regarding LJ and DW, DW is more respectful. LJ...stopped being respectful after it was bought out. And I finally got fed up. Hasta La Vista - LJ.

Also agree on Photobucket, I prefer Google, which is harder to use, but doesn't make your content inaccessible unless you pay -- after sucking you in with a free account. If they want to be a paid/commercial account -- do it upfront. Don't do it on the back-end.

[ranunculus]

In my experience LJ was never respectful from the very first. Brad seldom announced changes, he just made them, and he opted people into things by default instead of leaving the choice up to individuals. This included outing everyone with a link to their Facebook account. That said, things did change and get worse after it was bought out.

[shadowkat]

While I remember all that, I didn't experience any of it directly -- in part because I didn't provide them with a link to my FB account (so they couldn't link it) and a lot of those changes didn't happen until around 2007. Granted FB didn't arrive for non-collegiate folks until around 2008. So between 2003-2006, LJ was pretty decent. Then the software engineers running it got bored and greedy, and well...

[chestnut_pod]

Oooh, look at that.

[yourlibrarian]

It's funny how the camera sees things we don't and vice versa. In this case it worked in our favor, making the clouds seem like like dark sky being broken up.

[shirebound]

Ohhhh, this is great. A portal indeed!

[yourlibrarian]

It's easy to imagine, with views like this, how different legends got started.