My name is Ondorus, and I'd like to extend the same welcome to you. I've had many fascinating experiences on Dreamwidth, and I hope that you can experience the same.
We'll start with something very basic: posts and threads.
This webpage - and the block of content posted by my account at the top - is a post (or entry). Posts are made by accounts, known on Dreamwidth as journals. They can be made to the journal itself - as on Tumblr, where a blog where posts can be made is always associated with an account - or to a community, as this post was. Communities on Dreamwidth are shared spaces where multiple journals can post, but the community account itself cannot act as a journal - it cannot send or receive messages or post under its own name, and it must be linked to at least one administrator journal.
We'll touch on all that later. For now, just understand that one journal must make a post in order to create a space to roleplay in.
Below the post come the comments. On Dreamwidth, people roleplay through chains of comments, through which a series of replies can be easily identified - Miss Frey, would you like to demonstrate?
Anatomy of a Post + Thread
My name is Ondorus, and I'd like to extend the same welcome to you. I've had many fascinating experiences on Dreamwidth, and I hope that you can experience the same.
We'll start with something very basic: posts and threads.
This webpage - and the block of content posted by my account at the top - is a post (or entry). Posts are made by accounts, known on Dreamwidth as journals. They can be made to the journal itself - as on Tumblr, where a blog where posts can be made is always associated with an account - or to a community, as this post was. Communities on Dreamwidth are shared spaces where multiple journals can post, but the community account itself cannot act as a journal - it cannot send or receive messages or post under its own name, and it must be linked to at least one administrator journal.
We'll touch on all that later. For now, just understand that one journal must make a post in order to create a space to roleplay in.
Below the post come the comments. On Dreamwidth, people roleplay through chains of comments, through which a series of replies can be easily identified - Miss Frey, would you like to demonstrate?