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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] tkp.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
So I don't need to bat my eyelashes, right, because since I signed up with the openid I should get one anyway?

The main reason I want a seed account has nothing to do with features and everything to do with not making regular payments. It's something I inherited from my dad, or something; we both minimize as much as possible the things we're paying out to on a regular basis. ...and somewhere in me I have a journal post about why that is.

"And then magic will happen!"

hahah. Well, looks like they have hope, anyway.

I know you're not fond of "tkp". Go for it.

You are/were in fact one of my models for coming up with a name. I wish I could find something quirky yet literary, like your name. But I have not run across anything, and those things I do come across just don't feel like me/feel contrived/aren't pretty. I have a strange concern with being pretty. I say strange, I think many people are concerned with being pretty, but I care about it in such an abstract way, I'm not even sure it's the same thing. ...And I could go on about that, too.

Anyway for now I feel like I've decided on a name (I might change my mind): dashwood, after some sisters I've read about...It's too bad it's taken on lj. I'd change it so they're the same if I could.

[identity profile] stultiloquentia.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
because since I signed up with the openid I should get one anyway
Oh, yeah, I guess that's true!

not making regular payments.
Fair enough. Presumbly one can make large payments at a time, though I don't know how large. If it's something you're keen on, bring it to the attention of the owners. That's just the sort of feedback I think they'd find useful, actually.

I like dashwood quite a lot. Though if you're aiming for quirkily pretentious, may I refer you to The International House of Logorrhea.