Dreamwidth dating app profile codes

Short answer: you create a Dreamwidth account.

Long answer: Open IDs only a type of account: you can login to Dreamwidth and use its facilities at a slightly limited capacity so long as you have an account that shares LiveJournal’s coding/code forks (e.g. LiveJournal, InsaneJournal, to name the big ones). It’s how some sites let you login instead of creating a new account if you have a Facebook already.

It’s mostly been in use for when people import from LJ, because it means YOU have a measure of control over YOUR comments, regardless of who did the importing. (Basic example: someone imports their journal, open IDs are created for everyone who doesn’t have an account already, then you can either sign in with open ID or claim it under your own Dreamwidth account. If I ever come across a comment in the wild made prior to DW’s creations, like, say, from 2006, I still have the power to delete it at my discretion.)

Dreamwidth currently doesn’t support OpenID Connect, so no logging in via Google et al. I’m afraid.

This is something of a follow-up to my first Dreamwidth primer, because I completely forgot to talk about it. The features discussed in this post will be old hat to people familiar with LJ/DW style comments – this is mostly for Tumblr users.

So, one of the big advantages Dreamwidth has is that you control your posts. If you’ve ever had a post take off, you’ve probably had to deal with a bunch of people you don’t know having a fight about shit you don’t care about in your notes. And sure, you can block them, but there’s only so much you can do when a post really takes off.

On Dreamwidth, it’s way easier to deal with that. You may still run into it from time to time, but it is so much easier to manage. Enter comment screening and freezing.

the basics

If you’ve made a DW post, you’ve probably noticed these three icons in the comments of your entry:

From left to right, those are the icons for delete, screen, and freeze. There’s also a checkbox next to each comment, and at the bottom of your entry you’ll find a dropdown:

And while there’s no way to select all comments at once, you can also just disable them all by editing your post. On the old editor, the option is here:

And on the new editor (which you can enable by going here), you can turn on comment options from the settings.

Note: If you disable comments, no one – not even you – can see them. They’re still there, they’re just hidden until you enable them again. (Alternatively you could just make the post private, but that’s not usually an option in communities.)

This got long again so the rest is behind the cut.

Keep reading

I wanted to extend an invitation to any Tumblr RPers who might be thinking about making the move to Dreamwidth to think about taking a look at Entranceway! We’re going to be having a fourth wall event starting on December 12th running through December 26th, and it might be a good way to come test the waters and see if you like the platform!

I’m not sure if Tumblr RP circles have events like these, but a fourth wall event is basically a special event where *any* characters can come play in the game temporarily without an application, even if the person playing them isn’t already in the game. It’s a low pressure way to test out characters, but would definitely also be a good way to get used to the format.

The navigation for our fourth wall event is here! I’ve made both the navigation and the link to Entranceway tumblr redirects so they should show up in tags and searches, but I’d appreciate reblogs anyway to spread the word in these dark unsearchable times.