Dreamwidth Support

Known Issues

If you have a question about how to do something on Dreamwidth, you can read or search the FAQs. If you can't find an answer, we'd be happy to help.

You can also check the dw_maintenance community for temporary or breaking issues.

Current Issues:

• We are aware of an issue with customizing journal styles for communities and we're working to fix it.

Extension Conflicts

• If you use the LastPass browser extension, it may save and automatically fill entry titles on the update form. If so, you can disable automatic filling by going to the Preferences and unchecking "Automatically Fill Login Information".

Common problems:

The following is a list of the most common issues that users encounter on Dreamwidth. You may also wish to look at the Current Issues FAQ category, which has an expanded list of current issues. If you're experiencing one of these bugs, you don't need to open a request to report it. We already have it logged into our bug tracker, and we'll be fixing it as quickly as we can.

Captcha

• Sometimes the text-based captcha service fails to load or respond to a correct answer. If that happens to you, please reload the affected page and try again.

Importer

• Common import failure issues


• Embedded media may not work on imported entries.


• Icon keywords with some UTF-8-encoded characters are failing to import properly.


• Tags you've deleted on the remote site may import along with tags that are used on your entries.

Crossposter

• Incorrect password errors


• Security settings might change on editing the post.

Icons

• Icon keywords are not working correctly.

Profile

• Some HTML tags that users enter onto the profile will not properly display (such as table backgrounds and outlines).

Entries/Comments

• Some HTML tags that users enter in entries or comments will not properly display.

Inbox/Comment Emails

• It is not yet possible to receive emailed notifications of comments you receive without that comment also being sent to your inbox.

Last updated 12 June 2024

Frequently Asked Questions

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