Housekeeping

Hello new friends!

Welcome. Please feel free to stop in and introduce yourselves. I've subscribed to everybody who's subscribed to me. Some of you have also granted me access to your locked entries. If I don't previously know you, I have not done the same. If you stick around I'll change that. I don't lock much, mostly stuff that could locate me in space. Though, fair warning, I don't post much either. Never quite got the hang of personal journaling, so I mostly just live in people's comment sections.

If you're new to DW or just new to using it seriously, I cannot recommend enough actually reading the official site announcements on dw_news and dw_maintenance. These are infrequent but pretty much always substantial, informative, refreshingly transparent, and they mean new goodies! They've just posted a welcome/orientation post for all the new people. I was planning to make a few quick posts suggesting basically everything denise suggests doing towards the bottom of the page (claim your Open ID, enable the beta features), so just go read what she says and do it.

Note: comment notifications are always delayed a few hours when they put up a news post because the system has to push it to everybody.

It's also worth your while, if you've not been around much, reading through some of the back-catalogue on dw_news. It's a good resource to understand how Dreamwidth works (philosophically and technically) and the features they've added on top of LJ's codebase.

Small self-pimp for people who've added me in the last few months: back when LJ moved their servers, I wrote a post about How to Move to Dreamwidth and Like It, with my accumulated wisdom about making the switch. It seems to be making the rounds, so that pleases me.

Last but not least: DOCTOR WHO TEIM SOON EHRMAHGAAAAADDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!