The pettiest of complaints

[anghraine]

This isn't really discourse (at least, I hope not!). I really wanted to keep backing up my Tumblr posts and keeping a lot of my content over here and linking or something, but a few months ago, I ran into a single terrible problem with Dreamwidth that I never before thought about.

Even the paid premium accounts max out at 2000 tags :(

"But Elizabeth," you might say, "you don't even use tags for commentary over here, just for organization. You shouldn't need more than two thousand, surely."

And to this I would say: "shut up."

I was already deleting less essential tags to get them below 1999—for instance, extremely minor Guild Wars 2 characters I had dutifully tagged even though I suspect vanishingly few of you have the slightest interest in even major GW2 characters/ships like Marjory/Kasmeer (my beloved MMORPG f/f ship canonized in 2013; if ArenaNet doesn't animate their wedding I will revolt harder than Separatists in Ascalon), much less a barely-named character who shows up in one chapter of a 70k stylistically odd and niche GW2 fanfic. I used to tack more generally, but I don't want to give up things like my Gondor-specific tag ... or my aasimar tag ... but after so long the tags have definitely accumulated. And I don't think you can even pay for a higher number of tags than the 2000 from the premium account (which I would do! take my money, Dreamwidth!).

Anyway, at this point, any post that uses a new tag involves combing through my old tags and making decisions about what tags are really essential and it pains my soul. :( :(

Comments

[elperian]

I feel your pain! There are also character limits that have meant I've had to trim at least a handful of some of my more verbose tags (but ones that are dear to my heart!!!)

[anghraine]

Yes! The character limits basically forced me to switch from my old "character: name" tags to "ch: name" so I can tag titled characters, much less phrases for character-specific content (me: I get that the ability to tag Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire properly was not a super high priority with DW but the suffering).

[chestnut_pod]

Oh my goodness, tragic! That's a real murder-your-darlings situation.

[anghraine]

It really is ;_;