Haven’t done this since 2018 during that particular Tumblr Exodus.
(No more visualizations for active accounts over the last 30 days though, that’s kinda sad.)
This friendzy was made to help those who are coming over from Livejournal! HOWEVER, you don’t have to be coming over from livejournal to take part in this friendzy. Everyone is welcome to join in and post their form below, whether you’re a Dreamwidth veteran or have only been on Dreamwidth and not LJ. The more, the merrier :D
Some additional information if you’re working to import LiveJournal content to Dreamwidth, most notably an explanation on OpenID and how to “claim”.
[…] The rumor has prompted many people from LJ to back up their journals and communities to Dreamwidth, using our content importer, […] Because LiveJournal is hosted inside Russia, if the rumors do turn out to be true, no one outside Russia will be able to reach it, so people are highly motivated to import their stuff right now!
Anonymous asked:
im sorry, this is probably an extremely dumb question, but does dreamwidth have an askbox/inbox or something? like, can you send people (anonymous?) questions the way you do on tumblr or curiouscat?
Dreamwidth has a DM system but there’s no way to send it anonymously. The only anonymous feature is being able to comment on posts that allow so.
Anonymous asked:
So I’ve just started to move into dreamwisth and I was wondering how I can search for raged pasts on the site. I know I go to the tool bar and hit go, but it only takes me to journals with the tag as a listed interest and not individual posts. Is post searching not an option?
dreamwidth-help answered:
It is not! I guess it’s a bit unusual in this day and age to not have that option. There’s no comment search either.
Next best thing is using [search word(s)] + site:dreamwidth.org with Google.
Something you can try is going to the Latest Things page and clicking one of the tags at the top; it’s not a comprehensive list, and it relies on people using those tags, but it should otherwise get you something like you’re looking for.
And even if not, the Latest Things page can be super fun to just scroll through.
As far as searching for posts and comments, there is a possible option to do this if you have a paid account. It pulls up links to posts rather than posts themselves, so you have to click through if you want to see the posts, but it is an option. As to why it’s a paid feature rather than a free one, my best guess is that it takes a fair amount of power to do; my trial site-wide search (as opposed to just looking up my own posts) listed 1000 entries for me to check, with 20 on each page. (It probably caps out at 1k for the same reason, though I haven’t experimented at all.)
Correction: you do not need to have a paid account to search a particular Dreamwidth journal via the built-in search, but that particular journal needs to be a paid account. With privacy settings set to “yes, include my public content in sitewide searches”. Also, assuming you are not trying to search your own account nor is your account on their access list, with privacy settings set to “allow any logged-in user to search my account”. (And @dreamwidth-help ‘s suggested workaround only finds posts on journals and communities that have not enabled the “attempt to block outside search engines from indexing my journal” privacy setting.)
In general, the paid account services are those that cost us money to
offer, or that result in heavy database load or high volumes of
notification emails being sent out. Every account, whether paid or free,
can use the basic functions of the site, such as posting entries,
joining communities, and commenting in other journals. —Dreamwidth FAQ
@bemused-writer : #gotta find the blogs with those tags #and then search their blog #gotta get to know them!
What you’re looking for is Interest Search. Or possibly Directory Search or Community Search. What anon is asking about is Journal Search. (That link is to search one of the official site owner journals; swap out the username in the URL to search a different journal, or click the other radio button at the link to search sitewide.)
Oh, and comments are searchable (there’s a checkbox at Journal Search), but only those comments made in paid-account journals.
Anonymous asked:
So I’ve just started to move into dreamwisth and I was wondering how I can search for raged pasts on the site. I know I go to the tool bar and hit go, but it only takes me to journals with the tag as a listed interest and not individual posts. Is post searching not an option?
It is not! I guess it’s a bit unusual in this day and age to not have that option. There’s no comment search either.
Next best thing is using [search word(s)] + site:dreamwidth.org with Google.
A PSA more for old users than recent ones, but an important one.
Hello, Dreamwidth! It’s kind of amazing: today is the 10th anniversary of our official launch. A decade ago tonight, mark and I were sitting at the table in my old apartment and looking at each other like we couldn’t decide if we were going to cheer or faint when we opened the doors to our labor of love and invited y'all in. We had no idea if it was going to work or if Dreamwidth would fizzle and then sink, but we were willing to take the leap and try.
Anonymous asked:
It largely depends on the person/community.
Subscribing is indeed DW’s equivalent of following on Tumblr. Granting Access just means you give them the ability to see your “permissions”-locked posts, and vice-versa, if they also give you access. It’s a way to establish levels of contact/boundaries that was meant to mitigate “unfriending” drama that was something of a problem on LiveJournal (where Dreamwidth got its original code from) and, from my experience, seems to have worked well.
The general etiquette is that if they’re a largely public journal, it’s okay to subscribe, although it’s probably polite to introduce yourself. Just something like “hi I found you on my network and you seem cool, so I’m subscribing xoxo”. It’s basically what people do on friending memes. Whether you want to grant them access is up to you; whether they grant you access is up to them.
People who have issues with randoms adding them will usually say so, although in that case, they might have their journal completely locked down in the first place (like me). Usually they’ll have one public post (unlike me) that is something along the lines of “please comment here if you want to follow” where you can try to establish a connection, if you like.
Communities are pretty similar. You’re free to subscribe as you like. Access level is replaced with membership, which you can see the status of on the community profile: Open means it’s free for anyone to join and view community-only posts, Moderated means the admin(s) will need to approve you to join.
This got really wordy so I’m not sure it makes sense.