![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
As I've said elsewhere, the one big thing that I wish DW had was a system to schedule posts for a later date.
One of the main reasons I'm not more active here is because I tend to either be on or off when it comes to writing and creating posts. I either go for days with no real inspiration, or I write a bunch of posts at the same day and then never post them. Or I do post them and flood people's lists, and they don't like the spam and stop reading. (This happened shortly after I started archiving a bunch of my stories on![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
personalapocalypse - I lost a follower almost immediately after I started posting them, and now I'm not sure whether or not I should even keep trying to do it, because that makes it obvious that it annoys people, and I don't want to do that any further. But if I don't get them all done quickly, I tend not to get back to them for days afterwards; I'm pretty busy right now.)
The point is that I want to be able to write a post, save it, and set it up to post at a later time - preferably an automatic process, in case I'm too busy to post on a particular day. Five posts spread out over five days works far better for me than one day with five posts and four days with nothing. This was apparently a feature that was being discussed some time ago, but I can't find any comment about it now. I imagine it had to be deferred for more immediate problems.
Which brings me to my point. The next-best thing would be for me to find a client that would let me write posts, save them, and then post them with the click of a button later. It wouldn't be perfect, but it would be a lot quicker than the other option (saving them in a text file to copy and paste later.) So if you're reading this and use (or have used) a client to post to DW, please tell me and let me know if it had this sort of feature, and how well it worked. Or if you know of a place to ask about this stuff, let me know; I've looked over most of the official DW comms already, and did a quick web search. Both came up empty.
Thanks in advance! (Note: I'm on Windows 7 at the moment.)
One of the main reasons I'm not more active here is because I tend to either be on or off when it comes to writing and creating posts. I either go for days with no real inspiration, or I write a bunch of posts at the same day and then never post them. Or I do post them and flood people's lists, and they don't like the spam and stop reading. (This happened shortly after I started archiving a bunch of my stories on
personalapocalypse - I lost a follower almost immediately after I started posting them, and now I'm not sure whether or not I should even keep trying to do it, because that makes it obvious that it annoys people, and I don't want to do that any further. But if I don't get them all done quickly, I tend not to get back to them for days afterwards; I'm pretty busy right now.) The point is that I want to be able to write a post, save it, and set it up to post at a later time - preferably an automatic process, in case I'm too busy to post on a particular day. Five posts spread out over five days works far better for me than one day with five posts and four days with nothing. This was apparently a feature that was being discussed some time ago, but I can't find any comment about it now. I imagine it had to be deferred for more immediate problems.
Which brings me to my point. The next-best thing would be for me to find a client that would let me write posts, save them, and then post them with the click of a button later. It wouldn't be perfect, but it would be a lot quicker than the other option (saving them in a text file to copy and paste later.) So if you're reading this and use (or have used) a client to post to DW, please tell me and let me know if it had this sort of feature, and how well it worked. Or if you know of a place to ask about this stuff, let me know; I've looked over most of the official DW comms already, and did a quick web search. Both came up empty.
Thanks in advance! (Note: I'm on Windows 7 at the moment.)
no subject
Date: 2015-02-16 05:27 pm (UTC)From:The unfollow button is why you don't need to worry about annoying people on social media. It is literally impossible to please everyone with your posting schedule, content or anything else. Unfollow exists so people can drop something that's not working for them with the minimum of fuss and annoyance on both sides.
Also, you don't know why that person unfollowed you. Maybe they realised they followed you on the wrong account, or they'd only ever followed you by accident, or maybe you posted a story about their least favourite game/pairing/kink. Unless you asked them, you will never know, and the whole point of unfollow is that no one has to ask or be asked; it's completely passive disengagement.