Tips for new users coming from other platforms

[vriddy]

I was recently asking about Dreamwidth tips for new users on my journal, and this community was suggested to me in the replies! Here to my first post in a DW community. I am wondering, what little tips and tricks do you have that make for a more comfortable experience? The kind of tips that wouldn't be obvious for someone coming from another of the modern platforms.

For example, I only recently discovered the "Track this" option to keep an eye on post with thriving/interesting discussions in the comments without necessarily getting emails for it. Love how this lets me participate in conversations for longer, or get a notice if it was e.g. a request for recs and someone replies later.

Thank you!

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[feast_of_regrets]

Here is a rundown of free vs paid accounts, if you're curious what the differences are. The Network and increased number of icons are the big things, if you're into icons, although someday I plan to need those extra tags too.

Speaking of which, nested tagging is a thing, making it possible to organize your tagging system into neat components on your tag list if you're into that. (I am.) For instance, if I tag fandom: mcu: iron man on my post, "iron man" will show as the tag link under a heading called MCU, which in turn is under a heading called fandom. That way I can keep all my fandom tags corralled together on my tag list, and also all my MCU tags corralled within fandom if I so desire, but "fandom" and "mcu" won't become linked tags unless you also post an entry tagged just "fandom" or just "fandom: mcu" - also if you tag something just "mcu" it will get a new separate tag outside the nested fandom heading. (This is just an example; I don't have anything nested inside my MCU tag at the moment. But I do have "fandom: mcu" so if you want to see it feel free to stop by.) I hope that's not all terribly explained; I saw the thing about nested tags in a Tumblr post years ago now and it made no sense to me, but now that I have the hang of it I really like it.

Also if all you have in a tag are private entries, that tag isn't visible to the public, so that's nice too.

Also also! Tag editing is really easy if you need to rename a tag or merge two different tags that end up being pretty much the same thing. Just click on your tag link and then on "manage tags" at the bottom. AND you can set your journal to show all your tags on the taglist in your default journal view in your journal style settings "customize your theme" (along with some other fun settings). (YES I love my tags and YES I AM tired of Tumblr eating them, why do you ask?)

[vriddy]

I just spent 20 minutes reorganising my tags haha. I may have gone overboard but the Manage Tags screen does make it easy!! I do tend to link others to tag pages and that breaks the URLs though, so I will have to calm down and find an organisation I'm happy with at some point, but meanwhile thanks very much for these tips!

[feast_of_regrets]

D'oh! Sorry (but not sorry sorry!) about the time sink. I'm glad you found it useful though. Linking to tag pages is something I hadn't considered and I may find useful, so thanks for that. Good to know the links change.