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

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

1) For the most part, yes. Sign up with your LJ openid and you have a good chance of getting a code.
2) Not yet; that seems to happen occasionally, but the best way seems to be through openid.
3) People who have codes sometimes keep lists of people they're giving them too. Again, signing up with Openid is probably your best bet at this point.
4) Those aren't available until April 30th.
5) Yes, that's the only way to get a permanent account, and I think they're only planning to sell them the once.
6) I *think* the plan is to start selling them on the 30th, but only a limited number of seed accounts are available (400? I think? That is on the site somewhere.)
7) I plan to get a paid account, but not a seed account. I don't want a permanent account since we don't know for sure what's going to happen, but I do know a lot of people want seed accounts. YMMV.
8) I think so, yes.
9) Right now you have to create a subscription, I think. It's my understanding that there will be a way to read your lj flist without subscriptions once DW is out of beta, but they don't have all the features available yet.
10) No

11) I like it. I don't know what's going to happen, and I'll end up wherever fandom ends up, but I think DW is a good idea and a good thing, and I'll be supporting it.

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Do you think you're going to get regular paid or premium paid? I think I might get the latter, because, I am ashamed to say, MOAR ICONSES!!!

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

Eh, probably premium paid. I want to say I would wait until my paid LJ account expires in Oct given the current state of my finances - but I do want to support DW. And also I need the icon space. /o\

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all your answers! I wonder why the seed accounts are so limited, and only going the once. I mean, I assume it will be sort of like LJ where eventually if you pay attention and pay a lot you can get a permanent account, but it's really rare and a lot of trouble. But if people are willing to pay that money and take that effort, seems like more people will be willing to do it more often, you know?

I just hate having to renew payments on things. I'd rather give just one big chunk than to have to keep coming back. I do it with my bills and insurance and stuff too--the amount that covers the longest amount of time is the one I choose.

Thank you so much for all your answers!

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

Sure!

I think the thing with the seed accounts is a business decision - it's better to have recurring payments to run the site with, but yeah, like I said I think they said that there likely won't be more permanent account sales in the future, but don't quote me on that.

And now that I'm thinking about the subscriptions, I don't actually know. When people subscribe to my DW with their openid, I haven't been subscribing back because I'm already reading those people on LJ and it seems redundant - but maybe their LJ posts would show up on DW if I did? I have no idea, so don't quote me on that either. *g*

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe it will be like lj, where permanent account sales will come once in every blue moon.

Business decision makes sense; I was just thinking about the total amount of money involved, not the rate at which the money accumulates.

Maybe if you subscribe to someone's openid, they're lj entries will show up on your DW. Which would be cool! But it'd be even cooler if you could subscribe to them without them even having to make the openid. Then I wouldn't have to depend on anyone else to get whatever I wanted to read on DW. From what I understand they're working on this, but it's unclear whether they can or will do it.