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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_news2018-12-03 09:06 pm

Welcome to Dreamwidth, Tumblr folks!

With the new update to Tumblr's community guidelines announcing that they will no longer permit adult content on their site, we'd like to take a moment to reassure all y'all that we have your backs. With a very few exceptions (such as spam and the like), if it's legal under US law, it's okay to post here. We're 100% user-supported, with no advertisers and no venture capitalists to please, and that means we're here for you, not for shady conglomerates that buy up your data and use it in nefarious ways.

Tumblr's definition of "adult content" seems to be inherently visual, and I also wanted to remind people that we do have basic image hosting. (It's definitely not as slick and easy to use as Tumblr's, I won't lie, but it does exist.) If you want to include images in your posts, you can upload them and the site will give you HTML that you can paste into your entry. Or, if you have post-by-email set up, just attach the image to the end of your email and it'll be posted. All users have a 500MB image hosting quota right now. I know that's small for people looking for a place to host NSFW image blogs, but we are reviewing usage statistics to see if we can increase it, or at least make it possible for people to pay for more quota like you can for more icons.

For those asking whether we have a mobile app: we don't at the moment! There are many (soooooo many) prerequisites that we have to do first, which we've been working on but haven't yet finished, because we're dealing with a lot of systems and architecture decisions that were made nearly 20 years ago by now. (A mobile app would also be subject to the same censorship pressure Tumblr faced -- it's looking pretty good that Apple taking the Tumblr app out of the App Store was the proximate cause of Tumblr's content guidelines change, and Apple is notoriously strict on apps for sites that allow user-generated content -- so even once we have one, it's even odds on how long it'll be able to stay available for certain platforms.) We've been trying to improve the website's experience on small screens in the meantime, and that's an ongoing project that we'll do our best to devote some more attention to over the next few months.

Feel free to use the comments to this post to recommend communities to join and to make new friends, whether you're here for the first time as a Tumblr refugee or have been here since the start (and any range in between). To the newcomers: we're happy to have you join us. Welcome aboard!

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Greetings!

[personal profile] wraithmoon 2018-12-07 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
From someone who used to use Tumblr on the regular... this place is a dream. Literately! I switched from LJ to here last year and have been highly happy ever since.

Welcome :)
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[personal profile] har_court 2018-12-07 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the welcome! I've been hearing about this place for years, and it seems the imminent tumblr purge was the push I needed to finally make an account. Now I just have to figure out how to use it lol
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[personal profile] conuly 2018-12-07 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Comments are dying down, so this will likely be the last time I crosspost this:

Here I've compiled a lot of helpful welcome-to-dw links for newbies. I've got how-to guides, lists of useful friending comms and memes, a database for finding other Tumblr friends by different names - all that good stuff.

[personal profile] proudlyperversed 2018-12-07 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
YAY! Thank you for the kind welcome!! :) I really like the interface of this site. Excited to hopefully call this my new home.
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[personal profile] kittypetro 2018-12-07 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
thanks for having us :)
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[personal profile] celestinenox 2018-12-07 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Well now that FB told Tumblr to "hold my beer," I hope y'all ready for the second massive wave of social media refugees.
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[personal profile] tatzelwurm 2018-12-08 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
thanks for the welcome! i mainly use tumblr, but this looks like a really nice alternative, and i'm excited to check it out.
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[personal profile] volumeone 2018-12-08 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome all!

For those rpers, if you're looking for icons, you have several options to choose from. Some good ones are

[community profile] icons
[community profile] fandom_icons
[community profile] dwrp_icons (this is geared more for rp: crops, coloring, usually no text or a lot of filters, and with a focus on character/emotes)
Edited 2018-12-08 02:34 (UTC)
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[personal profile] untouchedbythefrost 2018-12-08 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Hello! I am from Tumblr also and this site does seem confusing, but I'm sure I can find my own way around!
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[personal profile] nuemilee 2018-12-08 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Guess it time to relive my LiveJournal days and make a complete ass outta myself again. Good times.
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Welcome

[personal profile] his_eternal_slave 2018-12-08 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Many thanks for the warm welcome.

[personal profile] an_angel_in_powerarmor 2018-12-08 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the welcome! <3

[personal profile] alvosfaceis 2018-12-08 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
dreamwidth, me socorre!
nao estou entendendo nada!
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[personal profile] elremaki 2018-12-08 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey everyone! I did come over here during LJ's strikethrough, then life happened and I let that journal fade. Between Tumblr, Facebook, and Fetlife all being buttfaces, I decided to come back. I've told a bunch of people about this place and its awesomeness, so I'm hoping to get some of them over here for our community stuff.
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[personal profile] sparrowlicious 2018-12-08 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I love you guys. No joking. You had our backs when livejournal had its purges and you're having our backs now and it means, so, so much!

I'm only a small-time hobby artist who rarely posts sexual nsfw stuff (I usually go for aesthetic nudity if any) but this nsfw ban affects me too, it affects a lot of us artists. Because erotic art is art too.

Thank you for understanding.
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[personal profile] floatboth 2018-12-08 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
hehe, I used Dreamwidth in 2012-2013, it was nice, but I'm not good at having a personal journal. too awkward.

Tumblr is… a different experience. Rapid shitposting, reblogging, with gifs and videos and sounds, all the dank memes. good stuff.

On the other hand, Tumblr is lonely. Reblogging into the void. DW was way more about interaction between people.

I'm not actually coming back? Maybe I am? If the people I follow on Tumblr find me here, I might?

and..

Is there no way to change the url here??
Edited 2018-12-08 22:05 (UTC)
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Nice, but I have questions...

[personal profile] chickadee12 2018-12-08 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
This seems like a nice platform and I really like the retro look of it, but I'm still confused on how Dreamwidth works. Is this a good place to post fanart (and maybe fanfiction?)

What if I want to find fanart of a specific character? How do I do that instead of having to go through people's interest?
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[personal profile] rin 2018-12-08 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi! Joined when the site started and am now back due to the tumblr death. Looking for communities and blogs to follow!
Edited 2018-12-08 23:47 (UTC)
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[personal profile] peachheart 2018-12-09 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
I hate 99% of Tumblr and this was going to be my escape plan if I ever needed a new platform.

Oops.

Perhaps the livejournal days will return.
Edited 2018-12-09 07:23 (UTC)
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[personal profile] honigfrosch 2018-12-09 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Late to the party, but I decided to sift through the ten pages of comments and list/link everything useful/that has been mentioned, including comms, workarounds, whathaveyou: Clicky.
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Tumblr refugee....

[personal profile] dori82 2018-12-09 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi guys! I have the same name as my tumblr account...

[personal profile] jillianmoony 2018-12-10 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the welcome! :D It's my first time here, I hope it will be a better experience than tumblr! :BBB
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[personal profile] ossobuco 2018-12-10 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Dreamwidth, you're wonderful, and I'm looking forward to trying to get established here again. <3

I have two questions, if People with Knowledge happen to see this: 1) since it seems likely that SESTA/FOSTA were at least one reason behind Facebook's and Tumblr's crackdowns, do you have any concerns about how these laws could affect Dreamwidth? 2) have you considered adding the ability to "like" posts?

That's all! Cheers!
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Feature Request (simple I think)

[personal profile] alchemia 2018-12-10 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
I would LOVE to see an extra option for our post settings- I would like to see something between "public" and "access list only". Specifically, I would like to see "Dreamwidth Only".... The reason is that in the past few years, there have been a lot more site scrapers and archival sites, some located in countries that ignore international copyright laws, that people can use to copy our entire post and comments.

People say "well just friends lock (access list lock)" but many times i specifically want to hear from those NOT on my access list- I want to know outside opinions. I want Dreamwidth communities to be able to link to my post if they find it relevant and for discusion to grow, to meet new friends/allies.

If the post is locked to DW users only, then a password is required and those archival sites can't copy our posts and discussions.

I think this would make posting on DW feel not just safer outside of our little "access list" circles, but that by feeling safer, it would increase discussion/involvement/customer loyalty.

[personal profile] anivad 2018-12-10 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
I grew up on LJ and hated it when people started doing a mass exodus to Tumblr, so I really hope that DW takes off with the latest Tumblr purge!

also I hated being constantly spammed with porn on Tumblr (not least because I'm gay and being made to look at lots of female-presenting nipples was annoying) and tbh I was glad to hear about the ban. I hope that the LGBTQ youth and sex workers and artists and other folk who were hurt by this will instead be able to find a better one here or elsewhere, which is far less prone to making people see stuff they don't want to see and is much more conducive to community-building, so this is a win-win situation as far as I'm concerned.

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