Looks like old school buttons!
This here's a page to hold sets of Mood Icons, which can be used with weblogs and the suchlike. At the moment, hmm, it has three sets. The intention is to create these to be used with LiveJournal.
Doctor Who themed icons and mood themes!
This is a HUGE archive of livejournal icons I saved/collected between 2006 to 2011. It's definitely an internet time capsule of sorts. (I used to collage these into pages to decorate my 3-ring binders for school.) These were my first introductions to graphics editing, super early internet jokes, and things that would evolve into aesthetic moodboards that would later appear on tumblr.
How to block certain topics/keywords on DW
If you want to give people another options from leaving a comment...
Some shortcuts to using helpful tools on Dreamwidth!
Someone on IRC was talking about the origin of the name Dreamwidth Studios. I think this has never been posted before, so I went and dug up some old emails. These are all from March and very early April of 2008. I pulled out relevant sections, too, so they're slightly diced up.
Anyway, I hope people enjoy this. This all took place on the "Project Crazy" mailing list, which is what I called it. Because really, we all had jobs and lives, this was kind of an insane proposition. Yet here we are today.
So, this is basically fifteen years' of trial-and-error learning on how to make dreamwidth posts that will produce good comment discussions involving lots of people. After fifteen years, I am at the point where if I'm sitting at home feeling depressed and in need of human conversation, I can make a DW post and have enough comment notifications to keep me in ego boost for several days. And a lot of what makes this work is just fairly simple strategies that I wish more people knew.
For the curious, icons are used in a very similar way to how reaction images and gifs are used on Tumblr.
I know a lot of people who don't visit DW very often because they think it isn't active. Well, it isn't Twitter or Tumblr, but there's plenty going on! So I thought I would compile a list of active comms that can help fandom peeps put some life into their DW reading lists and keep them apprised of upcoming events.
from sharpiefan, posted 2018
This is my attempt at compiling a masterlist of masterlists of communities on Dreamwidth. Obviously this will always be a work in progress and I'm going to add lists as soon as I find them.
Has a lot of tutorials on specific Dreamwidth things, with guides for people coming from other social media platforms
7 basic tips, very easy to read/understand if you're overwhelmed with the other guides
See also: Finding People on Dreamwidth
Resource list to other posts about being on DW!
I've heard that some people are joining DW and then finding it really difficult to figure out how to find content that they want to see when DW doesn't have an algorithm to suggest things to you. So I thought I'd share my methods of finding content that I want to see.
This is something of a follow-up to my first Dreamwidth primer, because I completely forgot to talk about it. The features discussed in this post will be old hat to people familiar with LJ/DW style comments – this is mostly for Tumblr users.
so here is a primer for those of you thinking about making a dreamwidth account. this post ranges from your really basic starter tips to the completely esoteric things that come from using it for a decade.
Written 2018, so a bit out of date. But still good!