DW for tumblrites masterpost

[potofsoup]

Here is the tag on my blog, where you can scroll to see everything in order: https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/dw+how-to

Here it are the links to individual posts:

Part 1: How do I follow a blog?
Part 1.5: How do I find people to follow?
Part 2: Posting and HTML basics
Part 2.5: Images
Part 2.8: Backdating and Drafting
Part 2.9: Scheduling Posts
Part 3: Dash/Reading Page curation (Subscription Filters)
Part 3.5: Access vs. Join vs. Subscribe, and targeted friends-only posts (Access Filters)
Part 4: Likes and Reblogs
Part 4.5: Stickies, Sidebar, Anon Askbox
Part 5: I miss yelling in the tags! (subtext, icons, and moods)
Part 5.5: Actual tags tho
Part 6: Themes and mobile
Part 7: Sideblogs and tag filters
Part 8: Paid features

Comments

[muccamukk]

I've been reccing this post for actual years now.

[potofsoup]

haha, thanks! I'm glad that I made this, but I also feel conflicted about it because this led to people telling me that I have no right to be on DW and to go back tumblr (while simultaneously telling me that I have no understanding of tumblr), and said yelling actually made a bunch of my tumblr friends decide to move to twitter instead of DW, so... yeah, while I've personally enjoyed being on DW, there's a lot of conflicted feelings here. It did teach me 3 things, though! One is to create a DW filter for my email so that I don't get 100 comment notifs in my inbox, two is to not be controversial (or if I am to be, to not do it across 3 different posts of yelling), and three is not to engage in DW comments unless I have emotional energy to interact with strangers. So I guess that's an overall win, maybe.