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Who's got stuff for the weekly update?

Me, I have:

* Vox shutting down/promo invite code
* Community Rec-o-matic
* How to find cool stuff on DW
* "But how do I know they're not just going to disappear overnight like GreatestJournal did?"

Anybody else got stuff?

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the LiveJournal's Facebook and Twitter Fiasco

ETA; IT'S 10,000 Rsge Comments and Moved to this Site

The 6A's merger thing, did affected Typepad and Movable Type affects the Merge?

btw: Melody is a fork of MT

Um, did GSOC produce something that's going to be incorporated into the site any time in the foreseeable future?

The code at "pencils down" still needs review, testing, etc, etc. Most everyone's sticking around to get their projects from "I wrote some code this summer" to "this feature is complete".

That's really awesome that folks are sticking around and continuing so that things are usable. I think it says a lot for us as a project too, that people want to stick around. :)

I'll be handing out business cards or postcards with a Dreamwidth invite code at Intervention in Rockville, MD this weekend. I'm going to be volunteering there (doing what is TBD) but will be happy to talk about Dreamwidth with anyone who finds me.

To be fair to GreatestJournal, they actually did not disappear overnight. Just from reading the announcements every now and then I had a far longer advance warning than that my Vox account will vanish. Months before they vanished they made an announcement that there would be no maintenance any more, then there was an announcement that they were running on their backup server only, and I vaguely recall something prior to the final vanishing too.

Mentioning that if you are crossposting to LJ and you have your LJ journal flocked but your DW journal open to everyone, if you edit an entry here without unchecking your cross-post to LJ button, LJ's post's access will change to everyone would be helpful so that it doesn't surprise people when that happens. I know that the coding to change that has been done but until it is committed, it would be good for people to understand the behaviour.

Thanks for pointing that out — I'd actually been thinking of doing just that, and I tested it with a post to see if it'd work, but didn't think to try editing.

lj_refugees is up and running.

getting_started is also a good resource. Support is also a good resource. We are there for people to ask "how do I make this work" as well as "this thing is broken", and are more than happy to answer even the most simple of questions. They're not bothering us, I promise!

Finally, I'm hosting a Friending Frenzy over at my journal. Even though it was posted last week, I'm still getting comments this morning. There are 338 comments at last count, and a LOT of new-to-DW folk have shown up.

And yes, I'm aware that Friending Frenzy uses legacy terminology. Access and Subscription Frenzy just doesn't have the same ring to it, y'know?

Reading Frenzy?

Implies something different. Friending Frenzy is a familiar concept.

Spam seems to be up. Accidental deletions of OpenID comments as spam also seem to be up, with this new influx of people importing their journals. A reminder about what is and is not spam might not go amiss.

Thank you for deleting spam comments. Remember, most spam is anonymous comments trying to get you to visit their site to buy shoes, stolen credit cards, or viagra -- or something that looks like a cat typed it (with or without website or suspiciously vague compliment). If you delete something that's not spam by mistake, don't despair -- if it's obviously not spam, the antispam team will close the report without taking action, so you don't need to worry about getting a friend's OpenID account in trouble.

Selecting the option to report as spam when deleting spam does matter. This is still a small site, and you may be the only person reporting that particular source of spam, even if it's a spam campaign you've seen before.

Seconded. I want to encourage people to send us their spam reports, because the more reports we get, the easier we can identify repeat offenders. It also gives us a better idea of just how much spam is hitting the service, because we can only measure reported spam.

(And we're not THAT small! :)

I've seen an opinion on LJ going around that it doesn't matter on LJ if you delete spam or not, because they're going to have hit someone else, so they'll already be reported.

How to submit suggestions.

How to change site schemes.

Links to basic styles stuff--

style_system,

dw_styles, the S2 CSS and S2 Guide--reminder that we work on getting new styles into the official system at

dreamscapes. Styles are still a sore spot for us, just because people are used to having hundreds and hundreds to choose from, as well as lots of ready-made custom ones, and we're not there yet.

Info on joining the IRC channel, starting Support or coding.

One of the more veteran DW users on my subscribe list said this: http://inkstone.dreamwidth.org/122001.html?style=mine

The best piece of advice I can give? While it's true that a portion of my dwircle consists of people I knew from LJ -- either they crosspost on both DW & LJ or they migrated over around the same time as me (pretty much since the start of open beta), the majority of it is comprised of people I met on DW. And while it's also true that the fandom communities on DW aren't as active as those on LJ, it isn't really true that the DW community as a whole isn't active. It's fairly active. But instead of finding new people via communities, you find them through comments and linkblogs or the occasional friending/subscription meme. I guarantee that's how I found the majority of my dwircle and/or how they found me.

So if you can tell the LJ refugees that, that your way of getting new friends is different, it will help in keeping people here, rather than making an account then eventually going back to LJ.

* invite code distro
* check your email address! (some bounced)

We're getting a ton of requests about mass deletion of entries. As you know, Bob, that is not, and will never be, a feature that Dreamwidth will provide due to security risks. Paid users can use the mass privacy edit tool (link). A paid account is only $x and provides other neat things.

I will try to put up a FAQ tonight, and will let you know if it gets done.

ETA: http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=210

Edited 2010-09-07 23:41 (UTC)

mark stepping back.

Edited 2010-09-08 14:07 (UTC)

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