Dreamwidth

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I was hoping to spend my weekend researching this more, but today's the last day of my weekend and I know I won't get to it. So here are my dumb questions.

1) Those of you who do have Dreamwidth accounts already--it's because you were randomly selected in a drawing, right?
2) Do [those of you who have accounts] have invite codes?
3) What do I have to do to get an invite code from one of you?
4) Do any of you have the $200 "seed account"s?
5) Is a seed account the only way you can get an account that you never have to renew?
6) Can you get a seed account yet? Where? How?
7) What do you guys think about the seed account thing? Is it worth it?
8) If I get a paid account once the beta is over, will I get invite codes I can distribute to people?
9) On Dreamwidth, you can subscribe to people on lj and have their entries pop up on your viewing list, right? Do you have to create a subscription? For people to subscribe to my DW account, do they have to create a subscription? (The way I had to create a subscription for my ij on lj, so lj people could read my ij?)
10) If I got a different name on Dreamwidth, would you all hate me?

11) What do you guys think?

I'm still going to try to look into some of this stuff. Mostly I'm wondering what you guys think about your Dreamwidth account, and how to go about getting one myself.

ETA: if you're already over there, what's your username?

Comments

[noelia-g.livejournal.com]

1. Yes
2. No, but they give them out sometimes.
3. If I have one, I'll let you know :D
4. No.
5. I think so.
6. No. They open up, like all the accounts, once the open beta starts on 30th April.
7. I think even the creators said that they don't want people to buy the seed acounts if they're just trying the system out; they're asking a high price for the accounts specifically so the people are sure of wanting to take part in building the site. I considered the seed account, but decided that they're right, I'm fine with first seeing how it is before I decide if and how much I pay.
8. Don't know, I think so, maybe?
9. I don't think you have to create a subscription.
10. No.
11. I like it, but I'm hesitant before I commit completely, I'll see how much of my flist makes a move there...

Check this out: http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Why_Dreamwidth, it has some good posts and interesting points.

In going about getting an account, I suggest opening an OpedID account there and validating your e-mail, it does work (I got my account that way today :))

[tkp.livejournal.com]

In going about getting an account, I suggest opening an OpedID account there and validating your e-mail, it does work (I got my account that way today :))

Okay, so how do you do that? I was wondering how people were getting randomly selected, and I assumed they were just randomly going through lj people. But SO many people on my flist had gotten them that I assumed they were doing something to enter themselves in some kind of drawing.

But I can't figure out how to open an OpenID account. Whenever I go there it says you can't do it until after April 30.

[raz0rgirl.livejournal.com]

go to the dreamwidth site. Look at the top of the page where it says Account name". To the right of that, there's a link that says "log in with openid account". Click on it. Make sure you're logged in on lj, too. follow the instructions and you should be fine.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'd tried that several times (periodically for the past two weeks, because I'm an idiot); I just wasn't getting I had to put in the actual address of my lj account. I think I didn't get what "openid" meant. But I get it now! Thanks so much!

[noelia-g.livejournal.com]

Go to the dreamwidth.org, look for the log in box at the top right corner. You should see the 'log in with an Open ID' link right next to the username box. Click on it, then use your lj address in the box (that would be tkp.livejournal.com), lj will ask you to verify, and after that, voila, an account.

Take a moment to verify the e-mail address once you have that account, without that you won't take part in the lottery (and the lottery picked me four days after I set up the Open ID account, so it works fine :D)

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Niiiiiiice! Thank you so much! I didn't read the part about how I had to put my lj address in; that's why I was so confused. Obviously I am stupid. But thanks so much for your help!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Umm...I think I figured it out! Oops.

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure (at least cathexys said so) that everyone who has registered on OpenID *before* DW goes into Open Beta is going to get an invite code. Some people with OpenID are getting them at random now, too.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Cool. Someone else said this, too. I wish I'd gotten on this bandwagon sooner; I just felt like I didn't have time to look into it. Maybe I'll still get randomly chosen; from what I can tell the odds are good.

Thanks so much for all you info!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the words of wisdom on the seed account. I was thinking about getting it because I really really dislike having to renew payments. Even with LJ, which I hate, I can see having this account for a very long time, more than 8 years. So if DW is better than LJ, it would be worth it to pay $200, even though that's uh, more than I usually spend on food in two months :o) But I really do want to try it out first, I just wasn't sure I'd get a chance. I bet seed accounts are going to be available for longer than this sense of immediacy warrants, however.

Thanks for all the answers!