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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2009-04-18 12:02 pm
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Dreamwidth

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?
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[identity profile] raz0rgirl.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone who signs up for an openid account will get a code for the open beta launch on april 30. They occasionally give out invite codes, but they're limiting the number to do controlled tests of the servers. I'm over there as raz0rgirl. I'd get a seed account if I had $200 extra lying around (I don't); however, the paid accounts are tiered and will have a lot of great options (price details here: http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=4).
Edited 2009-04-18 19:40 (UTC)
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much again for all your help!

I'm saving money for grad school. So I have some saved up. But it's, uh, saved, so I don't want to use it unless it's money I would be spending anyway (i.e., if I think I'll be using Dreamwidth for the next 10 years). Who knows!
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[personal profile] rahirah 2009-04-18 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Although as I understand it, come the 30th, existing accounts will be issued a lot more invite codes.