some words about Dreamwidth

[seventhe]

I use both LJ and DW. I like DW's interface, love their tagging system, am now addicted to being able to expand cut tags while reading my Circle rather than having to open them all in new tabs, and generally find it way faster, less laggy, and MUCH less intrusive and in-my-face than LJ.

However, I have things on LJ that are important to me - writing, archives, community, fic, and more importantly, friends: history, interactions - and while I've cut down on what I pay LJ for, I don't plan to leave all of that.

I use this system via crossposting: I post to DW, and DW crossposts to LJ, and it's the same thing in both places. This semester I've been too busy to really stay up on comments at ALL, but when I do have the time, I reply to both in both places. I keep up with both feeds (FList/Circle), although again, this semester I have probably missed some of the amazing details about your ravishing life (sorry!). It works really well for me, mainly because all of my posting-related transactions are through the (in my opinion) superior DW, but I'm not leaving LJ or any of my LJ acquaintances behind.

I'm mentioning this because LJ has been pretty much abysmal this week and last week, and while I understand their struggles and actually am impressed with their response, I am not sure it bodes well for usability future on LJ. I know other people are frustrated, too. But I also think a lot of people look at Dreamwidth like, "oh gosh, how could I abandon LJ? I can't, my friends/fandom/fic is/are here." Well, while on one hand it isn't really fair to abuse Dreamwidth's amazing setup to continue to use LJ while LJ is in a state of fail, because DW provides such awesome services - on the other hand, DW is set up to be inclusive, an AND rather than an OR, in that it'll import your old journals and tags and icons and allow you to crosspost and all kind of lovely things. And if you like the account enough, the paid accounts are even nicer.

Case in point: I've been on DW for over a year now, and I doubt anyone on LJ has noticed anything different (other than, you know, the recent distinct lack of comments which is really the fault of lab/grad school rather than LJ, DW, or any other combination of capital letters other than S-U-C-K).

So!

If you're looking to transition to DW, comment or email me, because I have some invite codes I can share!

If you just made a DW and want to be friends, on DW I am seventhe. Please friend me! I have nice icons over there, about cats.

Comments

[novel_machinist]

I have to say that I have more codes than I know what to do with. My pets may get DWs. Vader's would be full of hate.

[seventhe]

We should start a Rydia and Vader community.

[novel_machinist]

.... it would be the funniest thing ever. Pictures of our cats, and the things they hate.

[seventhe]

We could turn Mansfield Hill into that, but then again, it woudn't use up any of our invites.

[novel_machinist]

It wouldn't. And Vader hates you.

[darcenciel]

I haven't been posting on much of anything except Facebook lately, because I am lazy. However, last week I just cancelled my auto payments for LJ so I no longer have a paid account, since I figured it wasn't worth paying for something I barely logged into twice a week. I like DW since all of you are already on it, and it's good for FF fandom!

[zen_monk]

I really got to ask, because I feel you may know a lot about this than... the people I know on LJ do (and I say this because I don't really communicate with people on LJ besides posting in communites, ha ha can't even be social with people I can't see), but what's the deal with LJ? I can glean off some user's posts about what's going on whenever someone would mention it in passing, but is there some sort of degeneration in what LJ used to be?

[bixasaurus]

This is obviously bix.

I too have caved. And really, I"m liking the first few hours of my DW experience. I REALLY like that it has the whole "import" thing.

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

DW is pretty nifty, but only my FF-fandom friends use it. Every other person I'm friends with on LJ doesn't use DW, so it's really not worth me to transition over and I don't feel like maintaining 2 journals :S

I haven't noticed any problems with LJ...? I keep hearing people talking about it though, haha

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

It's undergoing some massive Russian DDoS attack; I haven't been able to reliably get in all freaking week. Hahaha.

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

Oh those Russians!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Way to go, Mary.

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

Legit LOL'ed

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

MY JOB HERE IS DONE

[drakonlily.livejournal.com]

Tell her to cut this shit out!

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

I just got blocked out of LJ a moment ago and had a moment of "eep."

I'm not that active right now but expect it comes in fits and starts, as my fandom-addiction always does -- and also I'm getting FFXIII on my doorstep by the end of this week which should make me hooked again.

Anyway, I'd love an invite code.

Right now, I have an OpenID account on Dreamwidth. I wonder how one transitions that to a real account... has anyone done so?

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

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Try that! If it doesn't work, I have a bunch more. :D

I don't have any idea how to work OpenID into a real account, sorry! I don't know much about OpenID. XD

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

Looks like they hope to do it "someday." In the meantime, well, now I am safe from the mad Russians (openID doesn't work when the site the openID refers to goes kaputt!)

Thank you very much!

[salarta.livejournal.com]

I haven't been really caring much for the idea of switching over to DW and all, but since you pose it as an "and" rather than an "or," and LJ's been having troubles, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to have an account there even if I don't use it. As an option.

So, invite code away!

Also cocks.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

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^that's an invite code, not a capslock rant ;)

It's at least worth checking out, I think. I am not sure how much of fandom has moved there, and/or whether it's worth the trouble, but for me I like it a lot.

[salarta.livejournal.com]

Don't lie, it's an invite code AND a capslock rant! It's just a jumbled rant because your programming is fried, robot!

Thanks for the invite code, I just set my account up and inaugurated its creation by posting COCKS. I need to figure out how you do that little "this has been crossposted" message.