A feature to request?

[magid]

There's one feature of FB that I really wish DW would have: the ability to look at all the posts I've ever made on $Date (edit for clarity: where date = month + day, ignoring the year, so all June 5ths, or October 2s, over all the years that have a post for that date, all on one page rather than navigating through the archive /edit).

Does anyone know whether this is a thing DW already offers that I just don't know about?
Does anyone know where I could make this suggestion if it doesn't already exist?

Comments

[minoanmiss]

actually you can do so. let me go find it on my journal so i can come back and tell you how.

[magid]

Oooh, thank you!

[darklingsluck]

https://magid.dreamwidth.org/archive

here you go

[minoanmiss]

https://magid.dreamwidth.org/archive

this will give you a calendar. each day that you posted is marked with a number for the number of posts. click on a particular date's number to see a list of post titles.

Re: here you go

[magid]

Um, that I already know how to do.

I want to see not what posts I made on June 17, 2025; I want to see what posts I made on all June 17s since I started blogging.

[magid]

Thanks, I already know how to look at the archive. What I want is a way to see all the posts I've made on every November 12 (for example) since I started blogging.

[darklingsluck]

Just go to the year and November 12.

https://magid.dreamwidth.org/2002/11/12/

Or you can edit the URL to change the year and it'll show you all entries you made.

Re: here you go

[minoanmiss]

sorry for the caps. i will see if i can figure out how to do this.

[magid]

I think I'm not being clear.

I already know how to see entries for any given Month+Day+Year, and how to navigate in either direction. That is not what I want.

What I want is a single page view that has all posts that were posted in my journal on any April 12 of any year.

Re: here you go

[magid]

No worries about the caps!

[cellio]

I'm not aware of a way to do that with DW. It seems like something that someone who knows front-end coding (maybe a little JavaScript?) could do, maybe as a userscript so you don't have to wait for DW to implement it, but alas, I do not personally have the skills to do that.

I wonder how hard it would be to write a userscript that plugs into the archive page, so that alongside 2025 and 2024 and 2023 etc, you could have an "all years" link, and then the calendar behind that, and when you click on June 5 there you'd get all of them.

[hammercock]

Basically, what you want is the "on this day" feature that Facebook has. And I agree that would be great to have here! You should totally suggest it.

[magid]

Yes, that's exactly what I want! Any idea *where* I should suggest it?

[magid]

You know far more about coding than I do, so your thoughts about how feasible it might be to incorporate are far more useful than my handwavy equivalent of "please make it so"; thank you!

I'm not sure where DW has the equivalent of a suggestion box; let me know if you do?

[bitty]

i mean, ffs, onedrive -- which i don't even use and am desperately trying to make go away -- emails me every day with "on this day" memories. so it's not just a fb thing.