General questions
Technical questions
General questions
- Who or what is "Snape's Underground" or "the Underground"?
The collective members of![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif)
snapedom. We had a series of polls in 2007, and the majority chose Underground as their name. - Why can't I post my stories/fanart?
There are many other communities for that. We want to focus on discussions. When we have a party, posting fiction and art is allowed. You can also post creative meta for challenges and rec your fics/art on the Friday Recs. - What is "creative meta"?
It's a term we invented here (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
sylvanawood thinks). Sometimes you can describe an idea better by writing a story. Creative meta should be relatively short (less than 2000 words) and under a cut. When you write creative meta, it will be discussed, taken apart and treated just like any other essay/post. If you do not want that kind of analysis and possible criticism of your creative work, don't post creative meta. - What are the "Friday recs"?
Since we don't normally allow fic/art here, this is meant as a compensation. You can rec and self-pimp to your heart's content every Friday. - How can I find older posts?
You can view all the posts in a specific year, a month, or a day in various calendar views. You can start at http://asylums.insanejournal.com/snapedom/calendar and click a specific day number or the "View Subjects" link at the end of each month, or just append the desired date to the end of the asylum URL, in the order year/month/day
For example, http://asylums.insanejournal.com/snapedom/2011/ (all posts in 2011), http://asylums.insanejournal.com/snaped om/2011/01/ (all posts in January 2011), http://asylums.insanejournal.com/snaped om/2011/01/14/ (all posts on 14th January, 2011).
For posts by topic or by author, check the tags page: http://asylums.insanejournal.com/snapedom/tag/. Please note that tagging is somewhat incomplete. Everyone is encouraged to add appropriate tags to their own posts. Just ask if you need an author tag or would like a new tag added to the collection.
Technical Stuff
- How do I log in with OpenID?
If all you want to do is leave the occasional comment, it's simple. Select the "OpenID" button at the top of the comment box and enter your remote journal or blog address (such as exampleusername.livejournal.com) as the "Identity URL". The other site will ask you to log in if you aren't already and then if you want to pass on your identity to InsaneJournal to post the comment.
If you would like to "claim" the bare-bones OpenID account that InsaneJournal creates when you do this and set an email address so that you can receive comment notifications, see this tutorial with pictures: OpenID explained (Note that post is from 2008 and text/appearance is slightly different now.) Basically, you go to http://www.insanejournal.com/openid/to log in with your off-site identity, then http://www.insanejournal.com/changeemai l.bml to set an email address. An OpenID account can have a profile, userpics, and friends list, but it is not an actual journal account.
LiveJournal and Dreamwidth are the easiest sources of OpenID and have been tested to work.hafren has tested Wordpress and AOL and they worked as of July 2011. Another user has tested Blogger/Blogspot to work as well. Yahoo!/flickr and Google/G+ do not work. If you've tested any other site and can verify whether it does/does not work on IJ as an OpenID identity, please contact me at shyfoxling at eristic.net so I can add it to the list. - How do I make a "cut" (IJ-cut/LJ-cut)?
The best solution is to surround the part of the post that should be "behind the cut" with the following code. It produces the cut and also means that the entire long post doesn't show up in the RSS feed which folks on LJ might be watching.
At the point where you want the cut to be: <div class="ljcut">
At the end of the post: </div>
Alternatively, you can use the standard LJ-cut code:
At the start: <lj-cut>, or, if you want to change the default text of "Read more...", like this: <lj-cut text="I want it to say this instead">
At the end: </lj-cut>
(Note that even though the rich text editor refers to it as an "InsaneJournal Cut", replacing "lj" with "ij" does not work.)
If you use the "Rich text" editor when writing a post, use the "InsaneJournal Cut" button (eleventh from the right, next to the "Insert/Edit Table" button). Click it at the place where you want to insert the cut. You can accept the default cut text of "Read more..." or enter something else. Now, type or paste the remaining bulk of your post into the grey box where it says "Type your cut contents here." - My cut, link, etc. isn't working, but the code looks perfect to me! What's wrong?
Make sure you are not using "smart quotes", the quote marks that angle in towards the adjacent letters. If you are composing a post in a word processing program, "smart quotes" often creep in because using them is usually the default setting. They are different characters than straight quotes and will not be interpreted properly in code.
These are straight quotes (right): " (double) ' (single)
These are "smart quotes" (wrong): “ ” (double) ‘ ’ (single)
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