Ok, my first question

[hils]

There's probably going to be a lot of questions while people get their heads around this

Subscribing and granting access. What's the difference and why are they seperate?

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[pixel]

Ok, this is quick and off the top of my head, I'll hunt down the FAQs in a second.
When I Subscribe to your journal I say that I want to see your posts on my Reading Page.
When I grant Access to your journal I say that it's ok for you to read my locked posts.
They're separate because they are two different things, this gives you better control over who gets to see your locked stuff and who you just want to be able to follow. It might not make much difference to you so it's perfectly fine to grant access to everyone you subscribe to and then it's basically the equivalent of 'friending' them in LJ.

More "welcome to DW info" here: What to do when you've just got a beta account
and check out the getting_started comm too.

[hils]

Thanks!

[chickadilly]

I'm glad you asked because I was confused too!

[hils]

I think there's going to be a lot of this until people get used to it

[pixel]

FAQs about relationships is here!
All the FAQs are here!

[hils]

Thanks! Again!

[phoebesmum]

Damned if I know, but I never could get my head around LJ friending either (where if you friend someone you can read their public entries, but you can't read their locked posts until they friend you back and ... when can they read your locked posts ...?

I think it's much the same thing here. I'm just ticking both boxes willy-nilly.

[hils]

I'm just ticking both boxes willy-nilly.
Hee! Me too!

[ardisia.livejournal.com]

I think it's a good idea to have the reading access and the full friends access separate. It looks like we can make all sorts of access to all sorts of groups here.
Initally it'll be a bit confusing, but it certainly sounds good.

PS. I'm off to search out the M/A communities...and the RPS ones too. ;)

[hils]

I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually :)