Drive By Cool Reporting

[zvi]

If you don't personally know a cool hunter to talk to about making Dreamwidth better, you can leave a comment here. The cool hunters are interested in:

• Ways you use Dreamwidth that the site wasn't really designed for
• Ways Dreamwidth makes it difficult or tedious to do things you want to do
• Tools you use from outside of Dreamwidth to make things happen on Dreamwidth
• Tools your friends are using on other blogging sites, personal publishing sites, electronic diaries, etc. that you wish we had on Dreamwidth

You don't have to tell cool hunters things, of course. If you have a clear idea of how to make DW better, you're probably better off telling dw_suggestions. But if all you know is that "It's too hard to do X," comment here to tell a cool hunter. We're here to serve as a cool to developer translation service.

Please put a subject on your comment! This makes it much easier for me to properly corral the reports in gmail.

Comments

[zvi]

This is the right place for that sort of request. We're already considering the plugin and its features, for incorporation, but they're not currently on the development plan.

If you want the plugin cloned/modded to work with DW, your best bet is to contact the plugin writer and ask them whether they want to dual support. Dreamwidth isn't building software to use with the site, but it is working hard to document the software that runs the site, so outside software writers can do cool stuff to the site.

[melina]

Someone tried that, but the developer said no.

If other coders could consider these features, either as an add-on or for DW itself, it would be really awesome.