in covid crisis
online home away from home
holds rooted welcome

replace the frames, fix the roof
homes that last take constant care

what do you need now?
how can your rooms give you joy?
let's help each other

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welcome, welcome all!
the neighborhood grows with you
here for the long now

no advertising, just us
we make it work together

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x-posted from April 2017 Haikai Fest

give us your fannish
your queer, your n00bs and your old
your rootless masses

yearning to connect, to dream
to set down, and not to yield —

Dreamwidth welcomes you
pulls out a stool at the bar
lets you set the pace

gives you home to return to
on any internet street

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I like to label
each post just so, specify
all its many roles

anticipate how one might
want to search for it by tag

a touch neurotic,
perhaps - but a post untagged
might as well be lost

now there are four hundred plus
(oh dear: the nested ones bred)

there are duplicates
horrors-! slight variations
in spelling and theme

my devil-may-care tagging
has defeated the whole point

and if I have to
change one tag by hand fifty-
three times I will scream

my new favorite
feature saves me from that choice:
'merge tags' - what a joy!

glorious merging of tags
choral hallelujah sounds

when this tag and that
join hands and unite as one
under a new name

so simple-! it's so easy!
the madness fades from my eyes

I am empowered
to organize all the things
merging need with speed

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the final day of
the Three Weeks For Dreamwidth fest
is a special day

it's thank-a-volunteer day
remember-all-they-do day

spam? call anti-spam
abuse? Terms of Service team
help? the spr0ts are there

they document history
in Coalition Wiki

create dream design
make Dreamwidth accessible
beta changes too

they built the home we live in
one line of code at a time

if you've made this place
your own, if you love Dreamwidth
thank a volunteer