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

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks so much for your thoughts! I always feel like when a comment pops up from you I'll get to read something really thoughtful. (Well, and that's true :o)

Yeah, I can see DW ending up a lot like IJ. But if I'm able to "fold in" my LJ flist, that would solve the problems I had with IJ. I mean, yeah, there weren't as many people there so I didn't have as many people reading my entries. But while that's sad, I assume if people are really interested, they'll come. The problem was people *I* was interested in weren't there, and I had to come here to read them, and I was over at LJ so often to read everyone else, it just seemed pointless to not be here. (I didn't adapt as well to having to go multiple places as you did :o)

But if I can still read and comment on people who stay here from elsewhere--then I'd totally stick with DW, I think. But I guess we have to wait and see whether they find a way.

I would like it if some authors I don't know well (fandom and otherwise) get accounts there, and I could subscribe to them, but not feel compelled to grant them access on a friends-list level of personal posts.

This is one of the main reasons I find DW so attractive (the separate lists, I mean). Though in my case, it'd be the subscription list that was really, uh, well weeded, whereas the grant-access list would be pretty open and laid back. I don't have that many personal posts, but I do have that incredible guilt of it I take someone off my flist, I feel like I'm saying I don't care about them, whereas really I can actually only manage to keep up with about 30 journals at a time, and which journals are in that 30 varies almost daily.

they might sell out pretty fast

Gah. I was just saying to Hannah that my anxiety regarding the seed things is probably misplaced, since I guessed they'd be on sale for a while. I just feel like if I really like it and want to stay with it, I'll regret not getting in on a ground floor way to keep the account forever without having to make payments every year. If I didn't have this animosity towards LJ, I'd get a permanent lj next time sales opened up--because despite all my bitterness towards this service, I'll probably have an lj all my life, if a better journaling service doesn't come along, you know?

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't that be so great, the folding in? It would be so attractive to have the capability, if it really does work out.

That totally makes sense to me. If there weren't HP people specifically who don't post on LJ or don't hang out much on LJ, I don't know if I would have developed a presence at IJ/a filter on IJ to read regularly.

Also, with IJ, I think Strikethrough happened, and many people felt unhappy, and IJ was sort of already there with its limited functionality, so it was a haven at the time (and continues to be for some).

But with DW, it's been developed with LJ users in mind, over time to take account of the things people do and don't like about LJ in terms of its capabilities as well as its policies. So the move there will work a bit differently, I think, even though some people still will just do name-squatting or post there only temporarily.

Oh no! I'd say don't be anxious about the seed accounts, because I think they really, really will offer them again. And, I don't know, if you go with the $20/year option for the regular level paid account, that's not too much money wasted if you get to buy a seed or permanent account, like, a year later?

Oh, I think I'll post at LJ forever! I have a permanent account here (it was a gift from an anonymous donor) so there's just no way I won't post here too. And it's here I have the most cultivated and mutal friends-list -- I know who everyone *is*, all the people who might read a locked post of mine. Though I've got friends on IJ, I don't have the same thing with my flist there, because I pretty much added back everyone, and then created a filter so I wouldn't be double-reading people cross-posting. Later that filter became more refined: HP people entirely, who post some sort of fandom-related stuff regularly. LJ is the place where, no matter what my fandom is or these other people's fandoms are, there are just certain groups of people I'll keep up with no matter where we're targeting our squee. And LJ just offered such a great and welcome platform for posting and reading and sharing fandom related stuff...I'm awfully attached to it, and I just can't forsee a time when I won't be, even if I'm cross-posting places and feeling like Semagic is my home more than a particular journalling service.