Welcome to Watchpoint: Gibraltar!

[solarbird]

Welcome to Watchpoint: Gibraltar, an Overwatch fan community on Dreamwidth! This is a central community for all things Overwatch. Game samples, screenshots, memes, links to fics, art, whatever. Keep it friendly - toxic bullshit gets n00ked.

JOIN the community to post. SUBSCRIBE to see it on your feed ("Reading page").

Yes, we're tumblr refugees, even if some of us have been here a while.

MEMES, PLAY SAMPLES, RANTING ABOUT NERFS:

Post that shit here! gfycat embeds work if you get the large preview link and embed it as an image. YouTube embeds just work like you'd expect.

FICS:

DO NOT post fics here directly, do post links to your posts on your journal, on AO3, or whatever.

Suggested post format:

Title: [title]
URL: [url]
Pairing(s): [pairings]
Rating: [rating]
Other notes: [other notes, if any]
Summary: [summary]

And, of course, tag your posts with widowtracer/gingerspider/blueberry lemon tea/widowtracerly/pharmercy/mekamechanic/speedy recovery/whatever. If the tag doesn't exist yet in this comm let me know, I'll add it.

ART:

NSFW: Link to your art, rather than posting it here directly.

SFW: Link or post here, either is fine.

META/DISCUSSION/RECOMENDATIONS:

Here's best, but links are good too. And introduce yourself! Because it's a new community and people like that. ^_^

SOME OTHER COMMUNITIES:

widowtracer - all Widowmaker/Lena "Tracer" Oxton/Emily, all the time
mekamechanical - all Mekamechanic, all the time

a gfycat play sample

[solarbird]

So here's how a gfycat play sample looks embedded here. You need to grab the actual-gif preview link. To do that, go to your library, hover over the preview of the video you want to embed, alt-click, and pick "save image location" or whatever your browser calls it.



Then use the img tag pointing to that link to embed it. So:

<img src="https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CoordinatedSimilarGartersnake-size_restricted.gif">

displays as:



You can also make the image a link by using regular html link code around it.

<a href="https://gfycat.com/coordinatedsimilargartersnake"><img src="https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CoordinatedSimilarGartersnake-size_restricted.gif"></a>

Displays the same way, but now if you click on it, it'll go to gfycat.



And that's how that works.

a youtube embed

[solarbird]

To embed YouTube content - like longer play samples - just get the embed code from YouTube, then click on "embed media" in the post editor and paste in the embed code.

"Pharah and Brigitte play sample - 2018-12-03" (Watch on YouTube)

uploading images for posting

[solarbird]

Dreamwidth does do image hosting. It's not unlimited, but it's a pretty high number - 500mb. Small enough that I'd suggest resizing huge images down a bit before uploading, not so small that I'd worry about ever running out of space if you do that.

Either way, you have to upload your images yourself, and it's a separate step - you can't just drag an image into a post.

Anywhere you see the big Dreamwidth logo (like when you post, or look at your own profile; it's in the upper left) you can get to the image uploader. There are two ways to get there.

The most direct is @Create/Upload Images. It's here:



Once you've actually found it, it's straightforward. After you've uploaded the pic, you'll see where there's a URL you can use to embed images into posts.

There's also a general image browser/manager, but it's not in the same place. Why? I don't know. It's in @Organise/Manage Images:



And again, once you've found it, it's not that hard to use. It's just hard to find. A lot of things are like that in Dreamwidth - it's powerful, but sometimes, it's really obscure.