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[mathhobbit]

Queue

Eventually, my LJ posts should migrate to Dreamwidth.

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[kelkyag]

The queue is probably long at the moment. :(

[mathhobbit]

Indeed! The only thing on my "reading" page is a note that the queue is impossibly long.

I have not yet found the DW equivalent of the LJ "friends" page, nor figured out how to add friends.

[sauergeek]

The equivalent of a friends page is mathhobbit.dreamwidth.org/read. (/read seems to serve the same purpose that /friends does on LJ.)

To add friends, there are two possible steps, both of which you can do by hovering on someone's icon. One: grant access, which lets that person read your locked stuff. Two: subscribe, which adds that person to your reading page. Together, those operate the same way as the single-step LJ operation of adding a friend.

You can also do this from someone's profile page ([username].dreamwidth.org/profile).

[kelkyag]

The reading page is the friends page equivalent. What LJ makes into a single operation of "friending" someone DW divides into "subscribing" and "giving access".

Things (people, communities, feeds) that you subscribe you appear on your reading page; you can create subsets of that with "subscription filters" (or content filters) -- for instance, I have political stuff in one subscription filter, read-once stuff (comics & such) in another, things where I actually want to read the comments and engage with in a third, and so forth. You can additionally filter by tag if you want to.

Giving access only applies to people (individual accounts, not communities or feeds); that lets them read things you have posted under a general lock / your broadest acl. You can create additional acls -- "access filters" if you want to post things to a more limited audience. For instance, on LJ I had a filter for just Madrigal staff, before that discussion was moved to a community.

The Manage Circle link will give you a list of everyone who you subscribe to or give access to, and everyone you have access from or who subscribes to you, with checkboxes to adjust them to taste. (Note that "kelkyag" and "kelkyag.livejournal.com" are different -- the former is a DW account, while the latter is an OpenID account which can be authenticiated via LJ, and can be given reading access but will not have posts on DW. The DW importer by default will've listed everyone you had "friended" on LJ as having "access" as their LJ OpenID, but it's not really useful to subscribe to those. (Some oddities go here around people who have "claimed" openIDs.) Many people but not everyone has the same username at DW as at LJ. I have done the weirdshit thing of moving those from having access to being subscribed to (which will never show me anything), because I'm not sure if I'll stop trusting OpenID auth from LJ eventually, but don't want to misplace the links for the moment.)

You can also manage your subscription filters or manage your access filters. Yes, it is weird that those interfaces are different.

Or to do this person-by-person, if you go to anyone's profile (here's mine, also the userhead in kelkyag), on the right you'll see buttons to grant or modify access, and to subscribe or modify subscription. Those'll take you to a page where you can put that person onto any of your filters (two big buttons and lots of checkboxes).