Newcomers

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Today is your last chance to save things from Cohost. The site is scheduled to disappear permanently at the end of December 31. Some bloggers have finished reposting their content from Cohost to their new Dreamwidth blogs. If you're done with yours, leave a comment there to direct readers to your material here. See "Cohost News" for more details about what's happening and what you can do. As a result, there's a wave of new users coming into Dreamwidth.

newcomers is a new community for people who are just getting started on Dreamwidth, in the tradition of twitter_refugees and reddit_refugees. This community supports former users of other platforms who are moving to Dreamwidth because their previous platform has become untenable or has closed. As such, it will increase activity with each wave of new users, in hopes of helping them get settled in Dreamwidth so they want to stick around. It also serves previous users returning after a long hiatus, people who want to do more with a Dreamwidth blog that was only intermittent, or anyone else who wants help connecting and figuring out how to use this venue.


This community talks about things like how to do tasks on Dreamwidth, especially in terms of replicating some of the functions that people used to use on other platforms, and how to find things you like here. It offers people a place to look for friends they knew from elsenet who might be on Dreamwidth. It gives people a place to ask questions about how to accomplish tasks or find things on this platform. There will be occasional announcements and networking with other communities and events where folks can make connections.

We also encourage Dreamwidth users who wish to welcome new folks to this platform and help them learn how to make the most of it. If you've been around long enough to have an audience and like reaching out to make new friends, please join in. You can also help by spreading the word, linking to useful posts on the community, or otherwise encouraging people to drop by here if they are new and/or have questions about this platform.

See our Introduction / Friending Meme to introduce yourself, or find your Cohost friends. You can also copy those questionnaires to your own blog to spread the networking farther.

Recent posts:

Snowflake Challenge

2025 New Year's Resolutions and Other Goals

Mood Theme in a Year, Round Two

Friending Meme

Self-Care Wednesday

Three for the Memories Coming Back Next Month!

2024 Holiday Points Bonus, plus: PRICES WILL INCREASE in 2025

Get Your Words Out

Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things

Holiday Love Meme

Comments

[barbaratp]

Quando soube do encerramento do CoHost fiquei chocada, mal havia chegado ao site e no mês seguinte ele anunciou seu encerramento, é como se todos os recantos da internet estivessem se fechando novamente, e isso me entristece. Ao menos tenho o DW e o Tumblr para ser feliz. Gostei de saber das comunidades de ajuda para novos usuários, pois estou aqui faz anos e ainda me sinto perdida nas inúmeras páginas a navegar u.u