A new community has appeared!

[modoftruth]

That's right! A shiny new community, opening up close to you, in the awesome little suburb known as Dreamwidth!

Thrill at the characters! Marvel at the tagging system! Be astounded at the way the colours of the community are very nearly the same!

Donning our serious hats for a moment...

We're not enforcing the move, or shutting the LJ community.

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Importing entries
If you've made yourself a new Dreamwidth account and validated it, you can also do what's known as an import. Importing is a unique DW feature that allows you to transfer all of your comments, entries, tags, friends groups, profile information, and icons (and icon keywords) from a LiveJournal or InsaneJournal account to your Dreamwidth account.

To begin an import, go to https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/importer and select 'LiveJournal'. Enter the username and password of the LJ account you'd like to import from, and click 'Continue'. Dreamwidth will ask you which items you would like to import; select whichever ones you want, and start the process. Dreamwidth will enter your import into a site-wide queue and run the transfer in the background while you go off and do your thing. (If there's an error and the import is stopped for some reason, they'll send you a notification.)

You can import as many different LJ accounts into a single Dreamwidth account as you'd like, though you can only run one import at a time. If you import from the same journal more than once, Dreamwidth intelligently determines what entries have already been imported, and only imports entries that weren't covered by the first import (in other words, you won't get duplicates of entries if you run more than one import on the same journal).

If you have more icon slots on your LiveJournal account than you have in your Dreamwidth account, only the first icon will be imported, and the rest will have to be manually done. (For example, if you have a basic DW account with 15 icon slots and you attempt to transfer the icons from a LiveJournal account that has 30 active icons, only the first icon will import. If the LiveJournal account has 15 active icons, all of them will import.)

Here's an example of a journal with imported entries, with the original entries at police_daughter.

You can also import communities, as our move has shown. To perform a community import you must be an administrator of both the Dreamwidth community you want to import into, and the LiveJournal community you want to import from.

Crossposting
Finally, Dreamwidth accounts can do something called crossposting, where you connect your Dreamwidth journal to a journal on another site, and then DW automatically copies any new posts you make to that other journal (eliminating the need to manually add the same entry to several different journals). To add an account for crossposting, go to 'Other Sites' under your Account Settings, and click 'Add New Account'. You can crosspost to Deadjournal, Livejournal, Insanejournal, other Dreamwidth accounts, or any other journal service that uses the LiveJournal architecture. Simply provide the target account's name and password. You can also choose whether to always crosspost by default, or on a case by case basis. (You can always turn off the crossposting default for individual entries. It appears as a checkbox that you can tick or untick when you create a new post.) You can also set a specific privacy level for the crossposted entries, or force people to go to your Dreamwidth journal to leave comments.

Basic Dreamwidth accounts can only crosspost to one journal at a time. Paid accounts can crosspost to 3 at a time, and Premium accounts can crosspost to 5.

Crossposting can only be done with personal journals, not communities.

Beta features
As a little bonus, Dreamwidth has a number of beta features in development that you can choose to try out. They mostly implement faster, shinier Javascript versions of existing site functions, such as the icon browser for paid accounts and the quick reply for comments. There's also a new Create New Entry page you can test that allows you to customize the page's appearance.