Toriel (tutoriel) wrote in mysticwish, @ 2017-04-10 19:22:00 |
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MW's IJ Guide
Mystic Wish is a community on InsaneJournal, but since there's always going to be people that have never used sites like these before, I figure it's appropriate to give a bit of a guide.
To begin with, InsaneJournal is one of several LiveJournal clones. LJ itself turned into utter garbage years and years ago [although if you ask me it's always been shit] and the clones all have different advantages and disadvantages over each other. IJ is the one I ultimately chose because I like their free account features the most, and if you want to pay for your account, they put permanent paids on sale often enough, which is how I prefer to put money into supporting websites because I am a cheap bastard
Free accounts still require an invitation code from an existing member. You'll be able to generate one code when your account is a week old. If your account is always free, that's basically all you'll get for invites. Paid accounts get one code for every month they pay, and permanent paids get 5 new invites every month. My account is permanent, so if you need an invite code, I can probably spare one for you and if I can't ask me at the beginning of the month.
There are a lot of things you can do with your account, as it's connected to a journal you can write in. When you first register you will probably want to play with account settings because this is the first thing you should do on any website [you do make sure you know what settings are available to you when you're learning about a new site, don't you?] Notably, by default, there are a few settings that are enabled or disabled that a lot of people will want to know right off hand so it can be changed:
*On your profile, your email address is displayed in plain text to everyone. You might not want this, it feels like a spam invitation [and could be dangerous to leave showing if you're using a work email or something] but you can change that
*You aren't informed when someone adds you as a friend [so you can friend them back] but you can check who has friended you by going to your profile and checking "friends of". You can enable the setting to be informed when friended
*You're also not informed unless enabled when someone invites you to join a community, and to manually check on this you have to use "asylum invitations" on the side navigation. I dunno about you but I'd never think to check that so I enable this
*By default, your journal allows commenting by anyone regardless of whether they have an IJ account [those show up as from "anonymous", the only option when someone isn't logged in, but this also means a logged-in user can choose to comment as anonymous themselves] and it doesn't log their IP addresses. If you want to change these, do so -- you can make commenting IJ accounts only, friends only, or to fuck with it and disable comments altogether. Another thing you can do here is enable comment screening. Note, these settings apply to ALL journal entries you make. If you only want SOME of your entries to have comment screening, you can apply those settings to individual entries.