Open Thread groups are great places for new kosaks to ask questions and pick up DK etiquette. Some groups are friendly in different ways than others, e.g., energy level. Most OTGs meet daily, and the list begins with those, by order of usual publication time. The ones that meet weekly are listed after the dailies.
Additions and changes to this list are do’able if admins comment with links as to what’s needed. (if the group has no active admins, editors can do it.) After this diary’s comment thread closes, kosmail to the author.
Clicking the homepage or diary list link at a given group will show you if it’s currently active. Note: “Homepage” recently began connecting to DK4/Perl pages at times. If that happens, click PROFILE at those pages, at the right end of the row of links, and that should solve that.
Note: Many open thread groups welcome your promoting other diaries from around DK in their thread, in the form of courteous, appreciative comments. First skim down the comment thread of the given post to see where to do it. NEVER put promo comments high in an existing thread in an interruptive, jam-it-in way. If there’s no comment explicitly inviting community links to be replied there, put yours at the end of thread the same way all other commenters do when they’re not replying to anyone else.
See the last section of this diary for basic group how-to (e.g., the most effective way to make contact., tips for founding new groups, etc.) For more indexes to more kinds of DK groups, go to <big>The DK Group FOR Groups.</big>. (Click the FOLLOW button or bookmark it, to keep up on new indexes.)
BTW, use this tag-search for open-thread diaries that may not have groups or established series. At that tagpage, click at the top of the <tt>LAST USE</tt> column there to see the series or group open thread in the moment.
◼ Bob's Picture of the Day Diary list & homepage 12mignight leftkost/3a.m. east.
founded Nov 11, 2024 by bsegel — Sharing a daily photograph that I took either with my iPhone or Nikon [and invites others to share their pictures as well. Also, Thursdays are “Throwback Thursdays”, where Bob additionally shares White House photos from Democratic administrations. This group subsumes, for the duration bsegel’s
◼ White House Picture of the Day Diary List & homepage - midnight leftkost/3am east
founded 2015 by bsegel — All are welcome to hang out and share what is happening in your life today. (Related grp: Mojo Friday, founded 2011 by woodtick “For all the followers of TexDem and the lovers of all things mojo. And now, just for thoughts.” Diary List & homepage)
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◼ MOT - Morning Open Thread Diary List & homepage appx 3am leftkost/6am east every morning
founded 2012 by JaxDem — Specialists in Jibber Jabber and threading. Copyright Restrictions on Morning Open Thread Posts of this Group. Posts by Daily Kos staff is done under an open content license and republication is allowed without permission. By publishing on this site, non-staff community members implicitly grant rights to Daily Kos to publish on this site and republish on its affiliated outlets. Unless noted otherwise, all non-staff original content, by default, falls under an open content license. Original content by community members, however, belongs to the individual authors and Daily Kos explicitly allows us to expand copyright protections for our content within the framework of the policy spelled out in the Daily Kos Terms and Conditions. The administrators and editors of this Morning Open Thread (MOT) group specifically withhold open content licenses on all original content, including writing, photographs, video, music, drawings, and all other original creations, to the full extent allowed under our agreement with Daily Kos and the Copyright Act of 1976. If you would like to reprint anything written or posted for a MOT, please feel free to contact its author and request permission..
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◼ J Town Diary List & homepage daily 6a.m. leftkost, 9a.m. east.
founded 2011 by JanF — Welcome to J Town! A place to hang out, promote posts, check on the weather (and brag about yours!) and waste, er, spend a little time. Bring your music, your news stories, your life stories, and, above all, your sense of humor. Sidewalks rolled up on Mar. 7, 2014.
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■ New Day Cafe Diary List & homepage daily 7:30 am leftkost/10:30am east
founded 2018 by The Marti — A place to meet and greet the day. Join us for a morning of fun and conversation. Some serious...some silly....always good company! We are an open thread group. All are welcome.
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◼ Street Prophets Diary List & homepage daily: Coffee Hour apprx 1pm leftkost/4pm east, brunch occasional weekends apprx 7:30am leftkost/10:30am east
founded 2011 by Ojibwa — Street Prophets is the forum that mobilizes progressive people of faith to name, discuss and take action on critical political and religious issues. So come on in and make yourself at home. We believe that most, if not all topics touching on faith and politics are appropriate on Street Prophets. While this forum represents people of widely differing (and often directly conflicting) theologies, our goal here is to focus on forwarding the progressive political discussion that our shared values make possible. The Street Prophets blog was originally founded by Daniel Schultz, a ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and Markos Moulitsas, as an offspring of Daily Kos. Street Prophets seeks to change the "moral values" conversation by fostering community; promoting informed opinion and moving its members to action. We are believers in "justice, freedom, compassion and love," in the words of Rita Nakashima Brock. We are progressive, Democratic-leaning and vitally concerned with those whom Jesus called "the least of these." We are the faithful for whom the religious right emphatically does not speak. Its vibrant community of netroots faithful includes a broad range of faiths, including devout Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Mormons, Muslims, Atheists, Animists, and Neo-pagans. All who seek to promote a new conversation about the role of religion in America's public life are welcome here.
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◼ Kitchen Table Kibitzing Diary List & homepage every evening 5:30p.m. leftkost, 8:30p.m. east
founded 2013 by remembrance … a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren't throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper.... Newcomers may notice that many who post in this series already know one another to some degree, but we welcome guests at our kitchen table and hope to make some new friends as well. Our kitchen opens nightly at 5:30PT/8:30ET.
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◼ Top Comments Diary List & homepage daily 7p.m. leftkost, 4p.m. east
founded 2010 by sardonyx — The Top Comments diary series publishes daily, and was begun [as a series] on June 14, 2006. We aim to publish pointers to the best comments from the previous 24 hours, and also note which comments receive the most recs from users in that period. Please send your pointers to our "TopComments" gmail address (no space) before 9:30pm eastern time daily
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◼ Overnight News Digest Diary List & homepage daily 9p.m. leftkost, 12midnight east
founded 2011 by Magnifico — nightly chronicle of the day's news. Each editor makes his or her own story selection for that day's digest [some specializing in art, or science, or culture, or politcs, etc]. Readers are encouraged to remark on the news of the day and contribute additional stories in the comments.
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◼ Insomniac’s Venthole ... Diary List & homepage daily 9p.m. leftkost, 12midnight east.
founded 2011 by MTmofo — A latenight gathering for non-serious palaver that does not speak of that night's show. Posting a spoiler will get you brollywhacked. You don't want that to happen to you. “Come to rant, stay for the friendship.”
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◼ Pink Clubhouse diary list & homepage
founded 2011 by BlueJessamine — A jotterville community where all are welcome. Offering friendship and support where discussions are light on politics and meta. A place to share ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images of popular culture and history.
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◼ WYFP? homepage & diary list SATURDAYS 5pm leftkost/8pm east
founded 2011 by Noor B — WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think might help. Everyone and all sorts of troubles are welcome. May we find peace and healing here..
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<big>🟦 E PLURIBUS BLUE: where YOUR local Daily Kos groups are:city-state-globally 2011-2026</big> which is the 2nd edition of🔶 Where the DailyKosgroups Are: Links to DK’s 300+ Local & Political Groups by State & Beyond, 2011-2024 including state and local candidate and campaign groups.<big>
🔵 50+ DK 2016-2024 Presidential Election & Candidate Campaign Groups, how to follow or reblog to groups, etc.
💙DAILY KOS Friendly OPEN THREAD GROUPS link list, by time of day (Open-threads are great places to ask dk how-to questions and get to know folks who know the site.)
💚 DK’s 240+ Health/ Med, Environment/ Climate, Rights, Cause/ Movement, Heritage/ Identity etc Groups & Series, 2011-2024
⭐ DK’s Heritage, Identity, Faithbased, Spiritual, & Philosophical Groups … index construction in progress.
📁DK Meta comm'ty & staff grps, tags, etc, for keeping up on site tech & issues
📌⭐ Linx to DK Feminist & LGBTQi grps and 50+ women’s news & resource sites
📦 Elebenty Dozen Dk Groups Not in the Other Indexes (not published yet. Because there really are elebenty dozen of’em, which requires more links than a single DK diary can handle. Follow the DKGroups tag at the foot of the diary if you’re interested in the possibility that individual sections might be posted.</big>
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And for several hundred more (amongst the 3,000 or so):
■ NewDKGroups diary series ■ or use the site search engine in Groups mode. The limitation there is that the engine “finds” by searching terms in the original URL wording of all group names, so if the group was too whimsically or cryptically named, you might need other strategies for finding ones that share your interests. E.g., view the profile/homepages of kosaks whose comments and diaries share your interests, to see what DK groups they’re in, and click through from there.
Basic Group How-to: All that really matters to know right now is:
🟦Not all groups are active at any given time: click on any link to see publish dates showing which are which (“no diaries yet” sometimes means “all diaries deleted”). 🟦 A group without site-active, skilled admins cannot ‘hire’ new members, promote, or ‘fire’ existing members, but if it has site-active, skilled editors, it CAN reblog. A group with neither site-active skilled editors or admins can’t do anything groupish, but site-active contributors in it may be interestable in starting a new group for that area (so might editors, for that matter) — for best results, kosmail to one another and get organized before starting a new group, keeping in mind that site history shows competition among groups can doom both/all, but mutual support and cooperation lifts them together. 🟦 The two main causes of groups crashing&burning on take-off are ■ founders have no admin skills and failed to recruit skilled folks in advance; ■ aside from the occasional diary series NewDKGroups hardly anyone in DK will know a new group exists unless founders & crew vigorously promote it among neighboring groups and across the site. 🟦 Groups can merge if their admins agree; it just requires picking one of them (potentially with a name change) and posting a final diary at the other linking to the merged one. 🟦 If you want to contact a group, use the homepage link, and when there the MEMBERS button to find the most recently active admins and editors, then click on their name to message to them...
...because messages to group do NOT put a message alert at anyone’s mail icon, nor at the MESSAGES line in anyone’s WelcomeBackbox so a message to group might sit for days, even weeks, unseen. 🟦 To view original Perl/DK4 founding pages for founders, start date etc., click homepage link, go up to the URL, remove groups from the URL, replace with user. hit go. 🟦 Official site documents on groups are HERE; see also community tutorials.
If there's no group near you, make friends with neighboring ones. Or do it anyway — why not? :) The most active meet-space groups get together at times for food, local protests and demonstrations, food, volunteerism, cats, and food, sometimes even road-trips. They might use kosmail or listserves or email to communicate about it.
NOTE: Some of the “homepage” links recently began connecting to DK4/Perl member-pages. If you find that happening, click on the PROFILE link on those pages at the right end of the row of links, and that should solve that.
