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[DW for tumblrites masterpost]

Hi! I'm going to make this a series of quick posts to help explain DW for tumblrites.

Let's start with translating some terms:

TumblrDW
blogjournal
shared blogcommunity
followSubscribe
dashReading Page


So, if you find someone you want to follow, you click on "subscribe" or "Add to your circle". Then this person's posts would show up on your Reading Page, which is just yourblog.dreamwidth.org/read.

For the sake of this post, I'm going to keep using the tumblr words.

Where can you find the subscribe/circle button? Here are a few places:
- When you visit a person's blog:
---> There should be a bar at the top where there's either "Add to your circle" or "Subscribe", depending on whether it's a community or a journal.


---> There's usually also a series of buttons under their profile picture on their blog, and one of them is "subscribe".


- Whenever you see something like [personal profile] potofsoup, you can hover over the little person icon to get a box that has "Subscribe" in it. (yes, you can hover over that one, right now)

- If you have a bunch of follow notifications and want to bulk edit, you can also go to the Manage Circle page: https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/circle/edit and check off some boxes there and hit save. (It's found under the "Organize" menu)

Most of the time, that takes you to this page with 2 giant red buttons: Grant Access and Subscribe

- Grant Access means that they can read any locked posts that you have (I'll talk about that in a separate post)
- Subscribe just means that you want their posts on your dash (er... Reading Page).


Yay, now you've followed that person and can read their stuff on your dash! (er... you've now subscribed to that person and can read their stuff on your reading page!)

Date: 2018-12-12 07:43 am (UTC)
alby_mangroves: by sandy79 (Default)
From: [personal profile] alby_mangroves
Thanks soup!

Date: 2018-12-12 09:17 am (UTC)
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Date: 2018-12-21 03:43 pm (UTC)

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