101 Ways to Help Dreamwidth Grow

This page is about how to help Dreamwidth grow and thrive, without volunteering.

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 dreamwidthlayouts or mintyapple.
• Fill out your profile's bio.
• Fill out your profile's interests.
• Make a post to your journal.
• Respond to a comment made in your journal.
• Know your journal's capabilities! Read the FAQs.

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.
• Answer someone's technical question if you know the answer, or direct them to Support if you don't.

Outreach

• Give out an invite to someone who asks.
• Offer an invite to a friend.
• Give out an invite on dw_codesharing.
• Give out an invite on Twitter.
• Recommend content on DW that you think might be interesting to someone not on Dreamwidth.

Communities

Participating

• Find a community around a topic of your interest, and join it and subscribe to it.
• 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 dw_community_promo for new communities you might like.

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 dreamwidthlayouts or mintyapple.
• Fill out your community's bio.
• Fill out your community's interests.
• Fill out your commmunity's description.
• Post about your community on dw_community_promo.

Feedback

• Vote on suggestions in dw_suggestions.
• Make a suggestion to dw_suggestions.
• Send a cool report to dw_coolhunters.

Funding

• Buy a paid account for yourself.
• Buy a paid account for someone in your circle.
• Sponsor a random user.

Paid User

• 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.