DW Anniversary Chowder

[delight]

• I created my account on March 28, 2009; I was one of the few closed beta people way too broke to get myself a seed account, but I did contribute by creating Tropospherical Purple! I should really go back to the dw_news post and share the absolute mayhem that was me trying to fax paperwork to DW HQ to authorize its use, but I'm feverish and gross so it's not working out -- see next item. (It is really A Story. It was An Adventure.)

• I'm still sick; I'm still the kind of sick where I'm mostly at work because it is May 1, and therefore my steam heat is off at home so I need to be in my nice warm medical building to be warm. (Because, happy spring, it's cold and wet out.) We have delivered unto Children's a load of books; people waiting for PMs, as soon as my closet has space, you'll get them.

• Got a blue Performer ribbon on my silly pixel dog game.

• Cannot remember what this bullet point was supposed to be, distressingly enough, so let's make it: my water pitcher for my workshops at work keeps growing legs and walking off, so I'm apparently dipping into the supply budget to purchase another one. If it were MY water pitcher that kept getting liberated, it wouldn't bother me, but it's for my patients.

• In honor of the icon expansion, I am taking icon prompts, because icons are a thing I can do when I'm sick! And I'm told people actually think my skills at cropping and color adjustment are pretty good. If you want to contribute to Random Icon Batch #Howevermany, please leave me a color or a word or something similar in the comments. I can't icon at work, but it will be something to do on my personal computer in batches over the next few days. :) I do not make icons of people and generally not of any form of art; I stick to using stock that I have permission already to use.

Comments

[sporky_rat]

Tropo Purple! Hail!

On the icons, how about colorful spices? Or books?
(boooooooooooooooks!)

[delight]

I never expected anyone to use it.

[sporky_rat]

hollow laughter

I didn't expect to become a Senior Support Volunteer either?

Hurrah on us doing things we didn't expect! And surviving ten years! Here's to another!

I wonder if I can figure out how many people are actually using Tropo Purple, just to blow your mind?

[sporky_rat]

I DID I DID I GOT mark TO LOOK IT UP!!!

61,595 PEOPLE ARE USING TROPO PURPLE.

That's 61,595 people using what you made, not including the people who are using it on their dreamhack.

Go you!

[delight]

♥ This is so nice to hear!

[kaberett]

FOR THE RECORD

1. I use Tropo Purple on my Dreamhack, so as to have Distinct Colour-Coding, and this both makes my life much better and doesn't show up in the stats above
2. A friend recently started using Dreamwidth A LOT more when I pointed out that Tropo Purple existed :D

[tiltingheartand]

*waves hand* One of them is me. I forget that purple isn't the actual color of the site until I end up on here logged out for some reason and go "oh shit, I'm not logged in".

[cesy]

I am one of them.

[yukonsally]

I am one of them!!

[delight]

Hello, I am glad it suits you!

[highlander_ii]

Lol - this sounds like me! =)

I use tropo purple - I switched as soon as it dropped on the site.


(I also use it for almost all of my RP accounts too... so that's like 25 of those 61.5k you mentioned below. XD)

[alyndra]

Hi, just dropping by to say how much I love Tropo Purple, on many sites I see options and literally 95% of what I want is "can it be more purple tho," which is easy here because of you! Thanks!

...um, what would tropo purple in icon form look like? :D

[delight]

That is my husband's thing, and he -- though not my husband at the time! but we did live together, so sadly we are not a Dreamwidth love story -- was also a DW beta user and was urging me to make a purple sitescheme. That's how it started. #dw was encouraging. XD

I once made him 200 purple icons. You are going to get at least 5 ...

[alyndra]

Eeee! You are so kind! I saw some pretty purple flowers in your icons just now, are those available for nabbing? I only recently moved to paid and I have lots of open spots!

Also thank you, delight-husband!

[delight]

Everything in my icons is free to use unless it says otherwise! Which I think is ... two out of 80-some, so feel free!

[ilyena_sylph]

I love Tropo Purple SO MUCH, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

(Tropo Red makes my anxiety go into overdrive in .0003 seconds, so!)

[delight]

You are so very welcome! When I mentioned it I thought I was just making it for my partner and like 2 other people, plus myself. It got fast-tracked because of some users having cultural issues with red after I submitted it and here we are a decade later ...

[niqaeli]

Despite being a very early closed beta user and a seed account from the first round, I was also too broke to justify it! Someone bought it for me and I still, hand to god, honestly do not know who. The most likely suspect, normally, is... one of the founders... so I do not think so! Given the whole point of the seed account sale was to stuff the site’s emergency coffers, heh.

Yay tropo purple! I had not realised you’d contributed that one. I have it as the site scheme on one of my lesser used journals, because I Cannot with the red. (I use the gradient vertical and horizontal layouts for my two most used journals, because I am that weirdo who prefers everything be light on dark if possible.)