Dreamwidth: The Nifty Things You Might Not Know

Given the number of new people coming to Dreamwidth, I thought I'd post about some things that people who have been here from the beginning will probably already know, but that new people might well find come in the "nifty" category. So, without further ado:

• The Dreamwidth Business FAQs. Separate from our normal FAQs, these are written directly by the owners, and give a lot of detail about how the internal runnings of Dreamwidth work, why the site was created, and such things. Do take a look - there's some very nifty stuff in there.


• The Dreamwidth Wiki. You can find some good current information on DW in here, as well as some historical articles (for example, we discussed what we should name certain features on the wiki). You can also find various DW-themed icons, links to lots of awesome articles, and for the more technically-inclined, information on how to help develop Dreamwidth's codebase.
  
  Suffice to say, the wiki is a veritable treasure trove of information. :D


• The dw-discuss mailing list archive is what we used to discuss Dreamwidth before Dreamwidth even existed. There are lots of interesting things here, including a post on how we could be reasonably sure that this service wouldn't die, a detailed explanation on why à la carte features are bad for the service, and more. There's also the dw-progress mailing list archive, which was the equivalent of dw_news before we had it, but without the replies - those went to dw-discuss.
  
  Of course, not everything in these posts will be up-to-date, because they're historical by nature; posts can't be updated after they've been posted. It's worth bearing this in mind when you go through the list posts.

As someone who loves to delve into the history behind services like DW, I'm glad we still have these resources to look through - there's so much information in them, both current and historical, and I hope you find them as nifty as I do!