birdfeeding is a community started on January 1, 2023. It's all about birdfeeding, birdwatching, and other topics relating to birds. It also touches on nature in general, and observations that may effect bird activity such as local weather. Both text and image posts are welcome. Now is a great time to join as hungry birds are easy to attract with a feeder.

Community resources include posts about birding events, nurseries that sell seeds or plants attractive to birds, bird identification apps, the benefits of birdwatching, and other useful materials. Check out the anchor posts from Three Weeks for Dreamwidth.


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Quick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!

I did check the tags before posting this, but I didn't see anything. There are a lot of styles that look great on a computer, but condense the text/entry area to a narrow vertical column when read on a mobile device. Mobility seems to be the best one for mobile (obviously) but I kind of hate the way it looks on a computer. Does anyone know a decent theme which allows for some customization (like custom backgrounds) but looks decent and reads decently on a mobile device? Or is there something I can throw into the custom CSS section of the customize theme page to fix this? I'd love to use the 5 AM theme, but it kind of looks like crap on my phone. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I have switched back to Practicality. Thanks for your feedback, everyone.

Robby has managed to put in a temporary fix for the site errors and things failing to refresh or not showing up where they should! The permanent fix is going to need Mark's experience, and unfortunately -- seriously, this literally never fails -- Mark has been on an international flight all day, because of course he has. (Never. Fails. He and I are not allowed to both take vacation at once.)

The site will work just fine with the temporary fix in place, things just might be a little slow here and there. We'll keep you updated.

We're aware of site traffic issues and are working to fix them for the people who are having problems! (The tactics the damn bot traffic uses are endlessly shifting, and they're really good at looking like real traffic, sigh.)

108 Doctor Who icons from The Eleventh Hour, Vampires of Venice, The Wedding of River Song and a few miscellaneous icons. Pretty much all The Eleventh Doctor.

Teasers:



here @ my journal

Teasers for these behind the cut.
18 icons: 13 Doctor Who from The Hungry Earth & Cold Blood, 3 AO3 icons, and 2 miscellaneous humor icons. All Eleventh Doctor except one of Amy.
Text on the miscellaneous icons is from something shades_of_hades said to me.

( 3 more teasers )

here @ my journal

108 Doctor Who icons from The Eleventh Hour, Vampires of Venice, The Wedding of River Song and a few miscellaneous icons. Pretty much all The Eleventh Doctor.

Teasers:



here @ my journal

Teasers for these behind the cut.
18 icons: 13 Doctor Who from The Hungry Earth & Cold Blood, 3 AO3 icons, and 2 miscellaneous humor icons. All Eleventh Doctor except one of Amy.
Text on the miscellaneous icons is from something shades_of_hades said to me.

( 3 more teasers )

here @ my journal

🌼 100x100 Total: 36
[19] Final Fantasy XIV
[17] Anne of Green Gables / Akage no Anne (1979)

🌼 300x300 Total: 15
[15] Final Fantasy XIV



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86 fandom icons including: Project Hail Mary, Artemis II, Stargate SG-1, The Mandalorian, Good Omens *spoilers*, Deadloch, Our Flag Means Death, Doctor Who, My Life Is Murder, Starsky & Hutch, Hazbin Hotel, Hellava Boss, Sherlock, MacGyver, Bob's Burgers, Brandon Rogers, Ryan Gosling, Richard Dean Anderson, Pedro Pascal, Stephen Colbert, Dan Shea, Paulina Alexis, Jodie Whittaker, Lucy Lawless, Zahn McClarnon...

  

Check out the rest here. <3

86 fandom icons including: Project Hail Mary, Artemis II, Stargate SG-1, The Mandalorian, Good Omens *spoilers*, Deadloch, Our Flag Means Death, Doctor Who, My Life Is Murder, Starsky & Hutch, Hazbin Hotel, Hellava Boss, Sherlock, MacGyver, Bob's Burgers, Brandon Rogers, Ryan Gosling, Richard Dean Anderson, Pedro Pascal, Stephen Colbert, Dan Shea, Paulina Alexis, Jodie Whittaker, Lucy Lawless, Zahn McClarnon...

  

Check out the rest here. <3

It's been a while since we've done a full code push rather than just hotfixes for bugs, so we are well overdue! Depending on availability, we're aiming to do one sometime soon; we'll let you know specifics once we've worked out good timing for everyone who needs to be available.

However! The reason it's been so long is we kept trying to get some of the stuff that's pending to "really finished" instead of just "mostly finished", and then we once again looked around and went "oh no, this is a really big code push with a lot of changes". Those make us nervous, because while we do a lot of testing ourselves, y'all are really creative in how you use the site and we inevitably find a bunch of edge cases when we let you loose on new code with your real-world data!

So, if folks have some spare time in the next few days, it would be a huge help if you could spend half an hour or so using the site the same way you normally do but with the "Site-Wide Canary" beta features flag turned on. Canary mode is a sort of "live testing" mode: it's your real data, but running the most up-to-date code.

Canary mode always does have a few glitches -- there may be missing text strings or errors about missing database properties, which is a limitation of how we run it. We don't need to know about those, but anything else weird that you run into, leave a comment with what you were trying to do and the error message you got.

I'll repeat that the "here be dragons" caution that's on the beta features page: some things may be broken, so don't use it for when you're doing something important. But a few more eyeballs on it before the push will help the push go more smoothly for everyone.

For folks who want to concentrate on what's changing, we haven't finished the second code tour of what's going to be in this push, but the ffirst one has a good chunk of what's going to be going live. (We'll get the second half done ASAP!)