Three Weeks for Dreamwidth is a celebration of the platform's anniversary, running April 25-May 15. During this time, people post content only visible on Dreamwidth (although it can be reposted elsewhere after the event ends). There's usually a flurry of activity as bloggers share anchor posts, new fiction, icons, banners, questionnaires, friending fests, memes, and other goodies. Community hosts often hold special activities in their communities too. Watch your reading page for more festivities. 

Are you posting about your experiences coming into Dreamwidth, or anything useful to newcomers on the platform? You can crosspost those entries here. Are you doing anything for Three Weeks in your blog or other community? Post a comment about that to attract more readers. Follow the Threeweeks feed. See my 2024 Questionnaire and a list of other thematic questionnaires. See the Introduction / Friending Meme for this community's questionnaire about new bloggers, and the Introduction tag.

onlyknownothing has pointed out that the Wayback Machine is down. Read more about the problem here. While this is among the most popular archives, it is not the only one. When it comes to data backups, more is better. Explore different archive sites, because they do things differently -- what won't save on one usually will save on another. When one is down, others are probably still up. Here are some options...

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Watch for the upcoming event Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, running April 25-May 15. Folks post content only visible on Dreamwidth, and there are usually memes and other activities too. Mark your calendars!

This year I'm planning to focus on questions and questionnaires as a means of building community. That'll create a few good anchor posts along with the daily question posts.

If anyone else wants to make or copy their Three Weeks posts here, anything on the subject of leaving unsatisfactory platforms or how to get started in Dreamwidth (and related things like how to build community in your blog) is welcome.

This is a challenge to make fifty posts about fandom things. They can be whatever kind of posts you’d like - movie reviews, recs, a story about meeting a fellow fan, cosplaying … anything!
The challenge runs for a year (well, 11 months), so a pace of one post per week plus a couple would do it.

regshoe offers this:

A little while ago I was complaining about the new Inbox and Create Entries pages (currently in beta, soon to become the only option). I find them rather ugly and difficult to navigate, and I know several other people feel the same way. Well, I have been learning to use the Stylus browser extension, which lets you apply custom CSS to modify the appearance of web pages, and here is my new custom style sheet to make the new inbox look as much like the old inbox as I can!

Dreamwidth uses icons to identify users and express ideas. An icon is a 100x100 pixel image that appears when you make a post or a comment. It can be always the same image, deliberately chosen to match the topic, or random. For Frequently Asked Questions about using icons on Dreamwidth, see the section on official materials at the bottom of this post.

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It's Snowflake time! :D Come one, come all, and join the fun. You can go to snowflake_challenge to get a copy of this banner and promote the event, so more folks will mean MOAR GOODEEZ for everyone.



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Today's theme is Active Communities on Dreamwidth 2023. This is the big wrapup post linking previous seasonal wrapups, new communities from 2023, and related resources. Please share widely to help folks find communities on Dreamwidth.

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