Personally glad to hear about the Star Wars meta 😉 It's always interesting to discover what spurs people to write.
Yes, images can be so relevant for reviews or particular types or meta (such as lighting, costuming, etc.) yet can make it so difficult to duplicate the post in other places. And most places which do image hosting no longer have free tiers or they're very restricted 😞 And some which are free (like Google Photos) make it very difficult to embed them. (I've done it, but it's slow).
I completely understand how daunting the task can seem when you start out. I had done a little crossposting prior to the MMM challenge starting, but most of it has been done in these last 3 years and the first few in particular felt very slow to me. I had over 15 years of work to go through and a lot meta wasn't even tagged as such so I had to do it entry by entry. I also ended up piecing together or expanding different things so it sometimes felt like I was making no headway.
What I hope you'll find is that as you start getting pieces copied, you start feeling the urge to keep at it. I know that it has happened to me just this week. Also I'd say set the bar low the first year. I know that for some just identifying the posts in question was the whole task for their first year (I don't know how it was done, whether through bookmarks or making a doc with links in it). But what I can say is that however much you do, it's more than you'd done before!
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Date: 2023-03-05 06:23 pm (UTC)Personally glad to hear about the Star Wars meta 😉 It's always interesting to discover what spurs people to write.
Yes, images can be so relevant for reviews or particular types or meta (such as lighting, costuming, etc.) yet can make it so difficult to duplicate the post in other places. And most places which do image hosting no longer have free tiers or they're very restricted 😞 And some which are free (like Google Photos) make it very difficult to embed them. (I've done it, but it's slow).
I completely understand how daunting the task can seem when you start out. I had done a little crossposting prior to the MMM challenge starting, but most of it has been done in these last 3 years and the first few in particular felt very slow to me. I had over 15 years of work to go through and a lot meta wasn't even tagged as such so I had to do it entry by entry. I also ended up piecing together or expanding different things so it sometimes felt like I was making no headway.
What I hope you'll find is that as you start getting pieces copied, you start feeling the urge to keep at it. I know that it has happened to me just this week. Also I'd say set the bar low the first year. I know that for some just identifying the posts in question was the whole task for their first year (I don't know how it was done, whether through bookmarks or making a doc with links in it). But what I can say is that however much you do, it's more than you'd done before!