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

[rahirah]

1. Yes.
2. I had some, but I've already given them away and have waiting list for the next lot I get.
3. I'm assuming you've got one by now. *g*
4. No, can't afford it, and they don't go on sale till the 30th anyway. I plan on getting a regular paid account.
5. I think they've said they're selling the seed accounts specifically for startup capital, and then never again. OTOH, 'never' is a long time, so who knows?
6. See 5.
7. It's kind of a leap of faith with any new service, but as I can't afford it anyway...
8. I believe so.
9. Subscribing to someone makes their public posts pop up automatically on your reading list. You don't need to do anything. If they give you access, then you can read their private posts, too.
10. No.
11. I think it's pretty nifty, and want to give it a shot.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I've got an openid which people seem to be saying will get me a code once the open beta starts.

re: subscribing, I was talking specifically whether they'll be developing something where on DW, I can add an *LJ* person, without creating a feed, and also without them having to create an openid. Looks like they want to do it, but haven't developed a way to do it yet.

Thanks so much for your answers! I'm so lazy. I kept poking around and around DW and getting frustrated because I couldn't find specific answers to my questions and didn't feel like I had time to mess with it more. ...I was a pitiful case when I first started with lj, too. Janedavitt was like my knight in shining armor; she kept answering all my questions...

[rahirah]

re: the combined flists, IIRC, they have had the brainstorm about a way to do it (I saw a post about it just a couple of days ago), but it's going to require Major Programming and probably won't be available at the beginning of open beta. But the post I saw said it would probably take 'several weeks' of work rather than months or years, so I don't think we'll have to wait too long.