news: Communities

Brad Fitzpatrick (

bradfitz) wrote in

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@ 2000-12-16 13:00:00

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Communities
You can now create communities.

A community is a shared journal that a bunch of people with related interests can post in. For instance, I created the seattle_party community. If you're in Seattle, go here and click the link to join it... that's where I'll be announcing LiveJournal parties in the future, since most the people in "news" aren't around Seattle, so they won't really care.

Please be aware that this community feature is really new and there is so far no documentation whatsoever, so have patience while all the related features are finished.

Also, if you create a cool community, reply here and let us all know about it.

Enjoy!

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	LiveJournal Anonymous lja 2000-12-16 01:20 pm UTC (link)
	LiveJournal Anonymous is now a community; anyone is welcome to join. Type of community? Let's let time tell. (Reply to this)

	patrick 2000-12-16 01:20 pm UTC (link)
	There is now a diplomacy community. We can use it to set up games, talk about rules, or anything else diplomacy related. How fun! :) (Reply to this)

	saintwoodstock 2000-12-16 01:31 pm UTC (link)
	i just converted the "everyone" lj into a community, but i don't think that it will change everyone all that much. one suggestion, maybe have a directory for communities, so you can find a community that interests you, because what is the point of having a community lj if no-one knows it exists? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bradfitz 2000-12-16 01:39 pm UTC (link)
	yeah, that's coming soon. like I said --- this is just barely done. there are tons of other things I want to do related to communities still. one way to find communties is to look at interests: communities are separated away from regular users when the list is shown (Reply to this) (Parent)

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	man_vs_wild 2000-12-16 01:48 pm UTC (link)
	Nice feature. Thanks! (Reply to this)

	New community damion 2000-12-16 02:28 pm UTC (link)
	I just created the community FreeBSD_Users. (Reply to this)

	Cups of Rice duinlas 2000-12-16 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	I went and made a community for... Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers Mucho Funno (Reply to this)

	revjim 2000-12-16 03:49 pm UTC (link)
	dfw_lj open membership. restricted posting. enjoy! (Reply to this)

	elliptic 2000-12-16 03:58 pm UTC (link)
	I just made the nychappenings community for any discussion of a local nature here in New York City, including info on cool events, shows, parties, etc. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bradfitz 2000-12-16 04:02 pm UTC (link)
	Man ---- who let the east side know about this site? :-) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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starla, 2000-12-23 11:36 pm UTC (Expand)

	No community dlbags 2000-12-16 04:47 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't start a community, just thought I'd let everyone know. As a matter of fact I hate all of you...does anyone want to be my friend? -D (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	Re: No community uncleian 2000-12-19 09:05 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I just wanted you to know that I didn't want to be your friend. (But I didn't even think about it.) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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revjim
2000-12-16 05:15 pm UTC (link)

I have turned user "livejournal" into a community with open membership and posting. Mark... if you wanna take over ownership of this, just let me know.

I have also created a community called "communities". heh. This community is meant to have other communities as its members so that livejournal users can have a easy place to go and get a quick reading of recent posts in various communities to see if they are interested in becomming a member. It also gives communities a place to post their existence when created. It is closed membership because I intend on verifying that the account is indeed a community before adding it.

Enjoy.

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	Um... insomnia 2000-12-16 06:22 pm UTC (link)
	ok. Now, what were we going to do with livejournal.livejournal.com now?!! How about telling me what you wanted to do with it... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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insomnia, 2000-12-16 08:07 pm UTC (Expand)

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duinlas, 2000-12-17 04:46 am UTC (Expand)

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opiummmm, 2000-12-17 07:31 am UTC (Expand)

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tmtl, 2001-01-12 11:22 am UTC (Expand)

	Change Community settings? gregw 2000-12-16 07:48 pm UTC (link)
	This came up in the support area a couple of days ago - after you join a community, how do you unjoin it? I noticed, for instance, that I joined the lj_biz community, and it's not listed as someone who has me listed as a friend. Like the other person who has me listed, I can't change this. How do you 'unjoin' a community? (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	Re: Change Community settings? debgirl001 2000-12-16 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	on that particular community's "community info" page there is a link up at the top with that option... i think. i have a question though... it seems that only "puplic" posts on community pages have pictures associated with it... protected ones do not have pictures next to the post... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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bradfitz, 2000-12-16 08:44 pm UTC (Expand)

	Bisexual and polyamorous communities! 00goddess 2000-12-16 08:29 pm UTC (link)
	I just created the LiveJournal Bisexual Community! OK, I actually just created the account...we all know the community itself was already in existence! I also created the polyamory community. Both accounts are open membership, select posting. This may change in the future, we'll just see how it goes. 00goddess (Reply to this)

	00goddess 2000-12-16 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	I just created another community (polyamory) and the user info page says that my community is monitored. What does this mean, and why is the community monitored, by a personother than the creator? 00goddess (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bradfitz 2000-12-16 09:00 pm UTC (link)
	Confusing wording... sorry. I changed it to "Watched by" ... it's the same thing as "Friend of" (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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	safiiru 2000-12-16 10:38 pm UTC (link)
	...is it just me, or is there no way to post to a shared journal or community outside of the windows client? Ok, for fairness that should read as "a client other than the web or loserjabber. But the point remains. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	safiiru 2000-12-16 10:47 pm UTC (link)
	Ok, so I was already corrected, and the newest loserjabber does support this. Still, it would be nice to do from the web. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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opiummmm, 2000-12-24 09:15 pm UTC (Expand)

	Created burning_man community insomnia 2000-12-16 11:26 pm UTC (link)
	I have started a community called burning_man ... My goal?! To have a LiveJournal camp at Burning Man next year! For those who don't just want a party, but want an experience! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Created burning_man community st_ranger 2000-12-17 01:43 pm UTC (link)
	Cool, I was thinking about this too. Im planning on going and so are some of the people on my friends list. It would be fun to put some sort of shared camp together. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	new community darkmoon 2000-12-17 12:17 am UTC (link)
	Made a macintosh community, open membership, open posting. Not that I forsee many posts in the near future, given the lack of support of alternate accounts on the web interface... and the mac app is just lacking all around. (Reply to this)

	jaycee 2000-12-17 01:33 pm UTC (link)
	My community of course is Eminem. People can join and whether you hate Eminem, like Eminem or just have opinions about him, we'd love to have ya :) That's all. (Reply to this)

	opiummmm 2000-12-17 04:01 pm UTC (link)
	Had to do it...there's an anime community now. Open membership, selective posting. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	endgame 2000-12-17 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	Very cool (Reply to this) (Parent)

opalcat
2000-12-18 05:09 am UTC (link)

I created the vegetarian community: http://www.livejournal.com/users/vegetarian

and converted the camgirls ring journal into a community: http://www.livejournal.com/users/camgirls

But now I have a problem. After you create it, you get a screen with three links... useful for managing your community. I didn't bookmark them, and now I can't find where they are!! I need to change some settings in one of my communities and I don't know how :(

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	bradfitz 2000-12-18 05:13 am UTC (link)
	Just create the community again. That should work. (Reply to this) (Parent)

I know...I'm bad

opiummmm
2000-12-18 07:23 am UTC (link)

Ok...these are my last 2 I swear! Based on a post in the everyone journal I went ahead and made an advice community (totally open)...it's for personal problems or anything outside the scope of support. Advice.

Also I made a community called comm_news based on an idea in the business emails. It's an informal, more personal approach to the official news journal, and membership is open to anyone. Posting is not, but I need "reporters" to help out with scouting out LiveJournal stuff. E-Mail me here: opiummmm@livejournal.com"

Oh and if you have any suggestions for the directory located on the /community.bml page, E-mail me as well, because I admin that page personally. Thanks everyone.

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	Styles opalcat 2000-12-18 08:02 am UTC (link)
	Is there a way to modify a style we didn't create so it works with communities? For example, I want to use Punquin's but there is no altposter thingie in it... I'd like to just add that but I don't want to have to recreate the whole thing... (Reply to this)

	Bama Community alachicky 2000-12-18 08:24 am UTC (link)
	I have created the BamaCommunity for those of us in Alabama. We can share anything, I know not much happens in Alabam but maybe we can find some stuff! (Reply to this)

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	Free promotion community freepromotion 2000-12-19 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	I made a shameless promotion community. Feel free to advertise whatever in here, but no spam or anything annoying, ok? I was thinking more about band demo's, your art (poetry, stories, etc..), and anything cool going on. Here it is: <A HREF="http://www.livejournal.com/community/freepromotion/>Shameless promotion</A> (Reply to this)

	Free promotion url in_the_wrong 2000-12-19 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	My computer was acting all goofy today. Here is the url (no hyper-reference because it did not work last time) http://www.livejournal.com/community/freepromotion/ (Reply to this)

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