Dreamwidth Communities

This list is (mostly) duplicated in its own entry on the Site FAQ. Note that official communities have the swirling "d" icon without the user avatar behind it (such as the official journals of Denise and Mark).

See Community List for a list of communities that don't have to do with the Dreamwidth service.

Official Communities

Communities that start with the reserved character set "dw_" are officially created communities.

General interest

Communities of general interest to everyone.

dw_news	The main news letter of Dreamwidth. We recommend that all users subscribe to this community.
dw_maintenance	Used to report about any planned maintenance or downtime.

Volunteering

Communities for helping coordinate volunteers.

dw_volunteers	This is the umbrella community where volunteers of all stripes can come together for connecting and planning.
dw_support	Mainline support community.
dw_support_training	For learning the support system.
dw_docs	This is the community where volunteers working on site documentation coordinate and plan their attack.
dw_docs_training	This is the community where volunteers working on site documentation learn stuff.
dw_styles	Community for styles coordination--people who need help with their styles should post to style_system.
dw_antispam	For coordinating antispam users. (Membership is restricted to team members, but there are periodic public announcements.)
dw_wiki	For coordinating wiki chores.
dw_meetups	For planning and discussing face-to-face meetups of people involved with Dreamwidth.
dreamscapes	For proposing and reviewing new styles and themes.

Technical

Communities for development or keeping track of Dreamwidth code.

changelog	This community tracks changes that have been pushed up to the official Dreamwidth repository.
dw_beta	A community where bugs and updates will be posted, as well as calls for additional testing; comments with suggestions for additional notes, additional screenshots, or contrary observations welcome.
dw_dev	For discussion about the Dreamwidth Open Source project.
dw_dev_training	Training community for people taking their first steps in writing code for us.

Staff

Communities organized around Dreamwidth staff.

dw_lounge	This is the "staff lounge" for Dreamwidth Studios owners, employees, and department heads. Membership is closed.
dw_staff	This is a community for Dreamwidth Studios, L.L.C. employees to keep track of issues. Membership is closed.

Miscellaneous

dw_biz	Dreamwidth Business Discussion
dw_coolhunters	The cool hunters suggest user experience improvements to the developers. Membership is closed.
dw_suggestions	Dreamwidth Suggestions
dw_community_promo	Community promotions
dw_feed_promo	Feed promotions
dw_nifty	Nifty stuff
dw_mobile	For using Dreamwidth on mobile devices.
dw_design	For Dreamwidth's UI and general design.

Unofficial

These are unofficial communities that are relevant to Dreamwidth.

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drawthecircle	a community to host your friending memes that used to clog up your personal journals
dreamchasers	Connect with friends from other online services on Dreamwidth.
dreamfic	Dreamwidth related fanfic.
dreamsheep	For making cute little sheepy icons.
dreamwidth_chronicle
dreamwidth_haikai	Dreamwidth-related haiku and other haikai
dreamwidthlayouts	For DW layouts.
dreamwidth_meta	For critical discussion and analysis about Dreamwidth as a project and a service; the post up there right now is an example.
dwrocks	For things that are awesome about Dreamwidth.
dwstones	For negative things about Dreamwidth.
getting_started	This comm is intended to help new Dreamwidth users find their way around during the closed beta stage. Links to helpful introductory posts, useful features of the site, and basic questions about where things are or how they work are all welcome here.
halfbaked_dreams	Baking for DW devs/volunteers.
houses	For sorting out volunteers into DW houses.
metaquotes	"Overheard on Dreamwidth", for the posting of amusing, insightful, witty (etc.) things said on Dreamwidth.
memewidth	For developing and discussing third party tools, kind of like lj_nifty.
on_width	For nifty or new comms on Dreamwidth.
style_system	for people interested in talking about how to use the style system here.
volunteers	for volunteers to hang out and goof off in

For a long and growing list of other communities see Community List.