101 Ways to Help Dreamwidth Grow

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This page is about ways someone can help Dreamwidth grow and thrive, without volunteering. This is not meant to be a tasklist; some of these things will work for some people but not others.

Your journal

  • Customize your journal's style, even if it's nothing more than customizing your colors. Look at a place like ColourLovers for inspiration if needed. You can also find something you like in [info]dreamwidthlayouts or [info]mintyapple.
  • Fill out your profile's bio.
  • Fill out your profile's interests.
  • Upload an icon.
  • Make a post to your journal.
  • Make a public post to your journal.
  • Respond to a comment made in your journal.
  • Know your journal's capabilities! Read the FAQs.
  • Make a custom icon for yourself.
  • Fill out all the description (used as alt text) and comment fields for your icons.
  • Tag your posts.
  • Create or subscribe to a feed account.
  • Add an interest that no one else has.
  • Add an interest someone else has that looks lonely.

Your circle

  • Read your reading page.
  • Comment on a post on your reading page.
  • Respond to someone's comment on a post on your reading page.
  • Find someone interesting and subscribe to them.
  • Recommend some content on DW you think would be interesting to someone in your circle.

Helping others

Here are ways you can help other people use Dreamwidth.

  • Answer someone's technical question if you know the answer, or direct them to Support if you don't.
  • Make an icon for someone.
  • Help someone else with their layout.
  • Respond to Dreamwidth questions/concerns on Twitter.

Outreach

Dreamwidth can't grow if other people don't find out about it!

  • Tell someone about DW who doesn't already know about it.
  • Give out an invite to someone who asks.
  • Offer an invite to a friend.
  • Give out an invite on [info]dw_codesharing.
  • Give out an invite on Twitter.
  • Link someone not on DW to a post you think might be interesting to them.
  • Post about DW on another website, if it's on topic or you think people might be interested.

Communities

Healthy communities are important to Dreamwidth's success.

Participating

  • Join and subscribe to an interesting community.
  • Make a post to a community you are a member of.
  • Comment on a post made to a community you are a member of.
  • Watch [info]dw_community_promo for new communities you might like, or someone you know might like.
  • Recommend a community to someone who might like it.
  • Quote someone who said something clever or funny on [info]metaquotes (with their permission)!

Creating

  • Create a community that you think fills a need or interest.
  • Make an appropriate icon for your community.
  • Customize your community's style. You can just fiddle with the colors or find something you like in [info]dreamwidthlayouts or [info]mintyapple.
  • Fill out your community's bio.
  • Fill out your community's interests.
  • Fill out your commmunity's description.
  • Post about your community on [info]dw_community_promo.
  • Tag entries in your community.

Feedback

Funding

Dreamwidth depends on money from people like you to keep running.

  • Buy a paid account for yourself.
  • Buy a paid account for someone in your circle.
  • Buy a paid account for a community that you think would be nice to search.
  • Sponsor a random user.

Paid users have other things they can do.

  • Post a poll.
  • Read your network page.
  • Make a comment to a post on your network page. (Might want to say where you came from!)
  • Make a custom mood theme for your journal.