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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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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!
(Comment notification emails may be delayed for an hour or two, due to the high volume of emails generated by a
dw_news post. This was posted at 2105/9:05PM EST (see in your time zone). Please don't worry about delayed notification emails until at least two hours after that. I also apologize to anyone who gets a notification for this post twice; we're trying to figure that one out.)
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If you're looking for more info on how this platform works and how to find people to add to your circle (reading page, dash equivalent), I've got a Tumblr post with the basics over here.
In my experience, Dreamwidth has always been a welcoming community and the staff treats its users with respect. I hope you have a great time here!
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Except replace "blahblah" with what your actual Tumblr name is, of course ;)
This same code also works with Twitter and AO3; if you want to link to a Dreamwidth account, you don't even have to add the "site=" bit!
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(Case in point! *waves!*)
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Oh hey I made a general explanation post on Dreamwidth complete with terminology breakdowns, I added your post's link to it
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BUT YES, otherwise please allow me to continue my gushing praise of your fabulous, useful, wonderful post!
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"In general, people don't tend to use subject lines in comments unless specifically prompted to do so by Community rules or guidelines. Occasionally people will use them for extra meta data, such as warning for specific content or making metatextual jokes or conversations, similar to the way that Tumblr users apply tags, but less frequently. Be aware that replying to any comment with content in the subject line will copy the subject line into your own comment with "re:" prefacing it, as when replying in an email chain."
Or something like that?
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I do have a couple of suggestions: Over and over I see people saying that they feel tongue-tied on DW because they don't have the time or ability to write long thoughtful posts, so they do nothing. If you would consider softening the language about the length and polish expected on DW posts, that might encourage people. Twitter length posts are fine! No one will sniff and turn away and say "Not long enough. Slacker."
Another thing -- I love your link to the post about how to meet people on DW, but you also might just mention quickly that the "network" button in the navigation bar will give you a scrolling list of everyone you've subscribed to and everyone THEY'VE subscribed to. If you subscribe to a few extremely connected people, all of a sudden you have all THEIR connections to look at as well.
Also, we don't have likes but you can always open a comment window and just type <3. Old school but effective.
Thanks so much for doing the post. I'd love to see more people here and you are encouraging just that!
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Also I've... never used the Network before didn't even really know it was there lol
And thank you for the feedback! I love this service and I want other people to like it as well.
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