Here are some more random comments about using Dreamwidth (probably not things that need to go to the authorities, just stuff I wanted to ramble about.)

I have now successfully imported a custom style layer into DW! It is ... um, the default Generator style from LJ. But! I now know what the advanced customization page looks like when it's working. And I have proof that it's *possible* to do custom reading-list colors on DW. And I have for the first time ever actually looked at something other than S1. So there's that. I need to do more looking at core2, though, before I really play. The S2 from Lj mostly worked, but it's full of language like "FriendsPage", so surely that's getting changed in DW, and I ought to learn the DW system if I'm learning anything.

I had to do substantially more fussing with the code than any of the "easy importing!" tutorials claimed. But just deleting the things that it claimed caused errors didn't create any gigantic black holes or anything. I greatly dislike the Advanced Customization interface, though. It needs to actually make it clear to people that if there's any errors in a style, it does not save. I kept wondering why I kept coming back to a blank style, and wondering if my browser was doing something wrong, or I was accidentally saving over it, or something. And since I wasn't sure why everything was disappearing, I was very disinclined to bother clearing out the errors. Obvs. I am not a power user in any way, but we hates it, precious.

I am using the inbox a *lot* more than I ever did on LJ. This is part of why I've been somewhat better at answering comments than usual. I do wish we could get replies to comments we left in other journals, though. I know this is low-priority, but when I'm actually using my inbox, it means that conversations not in my journal just drop out off the radar.

Of course, I also spent several hours being frustrated that there was no way to show only unread messages in the inbox, so that I could easily go to only the comments I hadn't dealt with yet. And then I smacked myself in the head, and said, "Kid, that's probably what *flags* are for. Maybe you should try using them, instead of playing with read/unread." And whaddaya know, flags are useful! This will probably result in me no longer bothering to mark things read, though, and in a few months I'll have several thousand unread messages, and my friends will laugh at me.

Thing I most want improved on DW right now (other than styles): tag management! Surely there ought to be a way to merge my "dr. who", "doctor who", and "dw" tags together into one, without having to go into every individual entry. (And yes, I've already complained about this one on dw_suggestions!)