Welcome to Dreamwidth!

[wolfpurplemoon]

Welcome Imzynauts, make a post to introduce yourself and find people from Imzy!

Also feel free to advertise any communities you make or find in order to replace those we loved on Imzy!

Comments

[greatcalico]

Wollllfieee!

It's Meg here, known otherwise on Imzy as pyxamid. Neato.

Back when I was active on Imzy, I mostly posted about neurodiversity. Fun fun fun fun fun. If anyone here whose been exiled to the depths of dreamwidth is into that sorta stuff, I'm here nowwww.

[wolfpurplemoon]

Meg!!! <3

If you search dreamwidth by interest you should find a community for neurodiversity, or you can also make your own (you aren't limited to 10 communities here!)

[squirrelitude]

Hey, I am @timmc and @phyzome on Imzy. I followed greenie over from the last project they worked on, Euphoria (a threaded chat site.) I mostly hang out in a chat room on euphoria and my own site is brainonfire.net.

I'm a software dev living in Boston and interested in information security and digital privacy, so I was mostly involved in /infosec and /boston.

[wolfpurplemoon]

Hey there, nice to have you here!

[wolfpurplemoon]

haha I didn't realise dreamwidth let you put reasons for editing into comments :D

[gender_euphoric]

Hi i'm also friends with Greenie! HI GREENIE'S FRIEND!!!

i am jaytimesadam over on imzy. i never did post much though. not sure why exactly.

[zhemao]

Hey Wolfie, it's Howie, AKA @zhemao. I've never really used Dreamwidth before. I opened a LiveJournal account back in middle school but never really used it. I'm willing to stick around for the time being and see what this platform has to offer.

[squirrelitude]

It's similar to Livejournal, except actually actively developed and maintained, and not sold to Russia. :-P (The owners are really great, too.)

[misbegotten]

except actually actively developed and maintained, and not sold to Russia

Well put, friend!

[wolfpurplemoon]

Yeah the staff here are very similar to Imzy in their ethos and way they deal with things!

[wolfpurplemoon]

Hi Howie :)

[daredevil22]

i seriously made an account just for this! IMZY WON´T DIE ON MY WATCH DAMMIT

[wolfpurplemoon]

Dare!! Glad to see you here :)

[greatcalico]

Dareeeedevil!

This is Meg. I guess I'm really getting confusing with the various usernames I switch between. :(

I should really work on that...

[upanddisappear]

Thank you so much for making this comm!

[wolfpurplemoon]

It was the idea of @timmc :D - feel free to share with anyone on Imzy when you try to entice them over here!

[upanddisappear]

Thank you @timmc !

I definitely will!

[winterhart]

I am majorjohnsheppard on Imzy, and this is very sad news indeed.

[primeideal]

I was Ember_Nickel, founder of the Animorphs community. I know the LJ Animorphs community (which was more active than the dreamwidth one) has been ported over here as animorphslj, and I'm lurking there in case anything pipes up.

Also interested in conlanging and board game discussion under various accounts, if any of those are active/moving around!

[wolfpurplemoon]

Welcome!

[hipsterbabas]

hi hi this is ayamnotkambing over at imzy. goddamn, i need to dust off this account

[balganwall]

New theme! I love what you've done to the place.

I'm balganwall from Imzy. I wasn't too active, but I did enjoy reading posts from the communities I'd joined. I hope the Imzy spirit can continue in full force here. It's a haven amidst all the negativity and bile that seems to be the norm online now.

[wolfpurplemoon]

Welcome! I hope the sense of community that we found on Imzy can continue here :)

[romana03]

romana03 and Isobel from imzy, I hope we can build a great community here too, now imzy is going :)

[neomahler]

Hi! I'm NeoMahler on imzy. I probably will be a lurker, like in most sites I'm in. But who knows. I'm still trying to figure out how does Dreamwidth works. The interface is very not-beautiful!

Cya you all here!

[wolfpurplemoon]

Hey - you're the free hugs person!

Welcome to Dreamwidth :) Yeah it's kinda old fashioned, but many of us like the similar community structure and also the staff are pretty cool too (and don't wish to censor their users which is good!)

[neomahler]

A free hug for you! :)

[wolfpurplemoon]

Thanks, hugs for you too! Hugs are definitely needed in this community :)

Hello!

[purploony]

I was purploony on Imzy. My husband Carljoe and I ran musings_from_manila, a tiny blog about every day life here in the Philippines. We're really sad that Imzy is shutting down, but wolfpurplemoon invited us to move to dreamwidth, and so here we are!

I haven't posted anything on my journal yet (this is my very first post anywhere, actually), but I'm looking forward to meeting everyone and joining a nice and welcoming community again.

Re: Hello!

[wolfpurplemoon]

Hey! I absolutely loved that fact that you guys ran your personal blog together, a really cool use of the community system on Imzy! I actually found you because Carljoe was in one of the marvel communities I ran and we had a really interesting chat about Spider-Man video games!

I'm so glad you've joined here :)

/binding jumped on the DW train too!

[diybinding]

Hey folks,
we at /binding wanted to keep going, so we switched to https://diybinder.dreamwidth.org. Check it out if you're interested in talk about chest binders, whether DIY or bought! :)

~robinlilian/bindyourway

group idea. Anyone interested?

[learner2]

"Also feel free to advertise any communities you make or find in order to replace those we loved on Imzy!"

I (or you or we) could create one on Ravelry and invite all of you. I think you'd have to join ravelry.com for me to invite you to a specific group there.

It's called a crafting community but you don't have to craft to join or create a group. Some of the groups there have nothing to do with crafting.

It runs really smoothly and quickly. The main developer and creator has done a wonderful job with it. The servers are reliable.

Google searches won't show the content of your posts there.

Membership is free. It's free to have a group. All features there are free. You can create polls and post photos. (Posting photos is free if you use a separate photo hosting site like flickr etc. but I think it's $5 a year if you want to store photos on Ravelry instead) If you want, you can click Watch or Ignore thread. If you click Ignore then the thread disappears. If you click Watch then it's stickied. You can search through a thread just to see its images. And lots more features. Though it's also very simple to use if you aren't interested in the features.

I find the interface there intuitive and elegant.

You can see all the groups you belong to on the screen at one time and you can even see the topic of each thread within that group from the past month or click a button to get to older posts. The search function for posts is also very good if you are looking for a specific topic or word.

In addition, each group also gets a chat room of its own.

They have sitewide rules for treating each other well. Abusers will get banned from Ravelry by the owners of Ravelry. But you can also ban people from your group if you are the group's moderators at your own discretion. They have some nice features for moderators. For example, anyone can red flag a post and then the red flag can only be seen by the group's moderators. The moderators can then post mail to each other on ravlery privately or they could go in the chat room to discuss it.

There are over 7 million Ravelry users from all over the world. It's a mostly female community but men do participate and are welcome. It is possible to create a private group for only people you invite but most people choose to make public groups.

Re: group idea. Anyone interested?

[wolfpurplemoon]

That means advertise dreamwidth communities not advertise other sites, thanks

[springwind46]

Hi Imzys! I'm SpringWind46 and, just like balganwall, I didn't post too regularly but I did visit my favorite communities quite often and I would love to find the same vibes here.

[wolfpurplemoon]

Hi there! If you go to the profile of the Imzy community you can click the links on the top right to join and subscribe to this community and then you can post and see the community posts on your reading page :)

[dimestoresaint]

I don't think a version of this existed on Imzy, but if anyone's interested in sharing music the old LJ community ontd_musicshare is now on DW. We do bi-monthly request posts as well as weekly themes which are a fun way of finding new stuff to listen to. The DW comm is pretty new but we're cross-posting to/from LJ so it's more active than it looks!

Hi!

[hitecherik]

I'm kind of new to Dreamwidth and have finally got around to joining the Imzynauts group! It's only been a week and I miss Imzy already.

Re: Hi!

[wolfpurplemoon]

Welcome!