Welcome to Dreamwidth, Tumblr folks!

[denise]

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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Comments

[old_man_of_hoy]

If you're looking for places to join, here's a Masterlist of Masterlists of Communities on Dreamwidth - hasn't been updated in over a year (sorry), but might be a start when you're looking for specific things.

Also, don't be afraid of comms that haven't been updated in a very long time. Just start posting and breath some new life into them. People will be happy about the revival.

[arethinn]

Another thing to keep in mind is that a community that looks dead from its front page might have many, or even all, locked posts, that you wouldn't see until you were a member. Check the community profile to see the actual last activity date.

[dancing_serpent]

True! But even if the last date of activity is years in the past, don't let that keep you from posting.

[arethinn]

Trufax! (she says, as owner/member of several such comms...)

[iosonochesono]

Communities have been slow to take off here, but sometimes with some new activity they start taking off.

[conuly]

Or it might only be active periodically, as in the case of purimgifts and the like.

[suncat]

Or a community might be laid out such that all the activity is in the comments of a few top-level posts. If visible, check the comments numbers on those posts, then see when the last comments were made.