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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2025-05-14 02:14 pm
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Network

 Do you ever click on 'Network' on any of your friends' pages?

I've done that several times recently, and added several new and interesting people to my subscription/access list as a result.

I think that's how I found Puddleshark - who turns out to a. Live in Dorset and loves visiting the kind of places I love to visit.  Especially beautiful gardens, and b.  Is  a fellow dancer, belonging to a team I know well, and I have definitely met her in real life!  (But will have to wait until Anonymous Morris and Holly Copse Molly meet up at a festival or dance out, to work out which member of the team she is!)

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[personal profile] vivdunstan 2025-05-14 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a couple of times used the Network page. And that's how I found you! So yes, very good stuff :)
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[personal profile] watervole 2025-05-15 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
Yay!

I'm very glad you did.
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[personal profile] igenlode 2025-05-15 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think I've ever consciously seen the "Network" link before, as it doesn't appear under the Navigation list on my own pages. I do click on other people's Reading pages sometimes, just as I tend to click on their Favourites lists in fanfic, and I'm now confused what the difference between the Reading and Network pages is. (There doesn't appear to be much, if any, overlap in your case at least...)
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[personal profile] watervole 2025-05-15 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Actually 'reading' is probably the best of the two, though they are very similar.

Took me a very long time here before I realised how to use either of them!

I think 'network' includes people who subscribe to you, and 'reading' is just the people you subscribe to..
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[personal profile] igenlode 2025-05-15 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Error
Sorry, this account type does not permit showing your network." -- well, that explains why I'd never seen it, anyway!

I was getting the impression that it was some kind of RSS feed arrangement, but that presumably reflects what [personal profile] watervole happens to be subscribed to, and the relative posting volumes of friends and feeds...
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[personal profile] conuly 2025-05-15 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
I do that now and again, and also hit up the "latest things" page.
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[personal profile] watervole 2025-05-15 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
Latest things? That one's new to me.

I love DW, but it's very poor on telling users how to use it well. Some of the info is incredibly outdated or very hard to find.
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[personal profile] conuly 2025-05-15 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
Are you on a computer? If you're on a computer, you can go to the top menu bar, hover over "explore". The menu will then lead to Latest Things.
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[personal profile] watervole 2025-05-15 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Latest Things doesn't seem to work very well. I noticed that '9 princes in Amber' was on the list, but when I tried it, nothing appeared. I got some stuff for 'gardening', which at least worked, though nothing of much interest to me.
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[personal profile] igenlode 2025-05-15 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
Latest things? That one's new to me.

Likewise...!

(It shows up under 'Explore' in the sidebar for my journal style.)
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[personal profile] oracne 2025-05-15 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I have not tried that, thanks for the pointer!
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