dreamwidth

[emchy]

i figure i might as well use the service to discuss the service

main reason i came over here is all of the many times i keep hearing that the current LJ owners may make LJ go away or at least be less reliable esp for the US customers. i have a lot of poetry, art and life up in this journal and worrying that it could go away at any moment makes me tense. i use this to relieve tension so thats a no win for me. yes i could use lj book to back it up but honestly - i suck at remembering to do that until it's too late and then everyone who is panicking has the servers jammed up.

secondary reasons.
1. the most shallow - i can use emchy which LJ would not allow since their user name has a six character requirement
2. less shallow - for what its worth they're a .org and based on open source models.
3. i already met some nice people that i like in the only community i have joined
4. vagabondage was available as a community name so we don't have to put up with the clunkier vagabondageband
5. a nice person got me a paid account - thank you nice person


reasons i am finding it hard to stick it out.

1. my pals don't seem to be posting over here although they are joining.... i've followed everyone back but it seems like all of the posting is still on lj
2. until we hit critical mass over here i am in LJ so much reading the flist to see how my peeps are that i forget to post here as the main place and so it's a self fulfilling prophecy since i am not posting here much either
3. while the architecture mimics LJ its just different enough to feel like i am relearning
4. my icons didn't port over - pout - some of those are lost forever to files on work computers

and thats the exposition on this for now...
we'll see how it works out

Comments

[hubbit]

I usually post to Dreamwidth and have it syndicated to LJ. I just haven't posted this week because of teh bizzy. But I read both, even when users post across both platforms.

Paid accounts offer a lot more as far as icons and customization go. You may even be able to port over your icons now. I'll yell 'WOOT' if you can do so. :)

[emchy]

good point - trying icon import now

[emchy]

omg it worked!

[hubbit]

*yells* WOOT! :D

[black_pearl]

I'm posting here and having it crossposted to LJ, but I'm still learning the ropes here myself.

[crowgrl13.livejournal.com]

I know I'm just one person, but I'm glad your over here. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/beat_ho_/]

eek, what's going on? i haven't been posting or reading very much, please fill me in. thnx

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

heh it's a post i made about dreamwidth and allowed to xpost over to lj

of course i forgot to mention dreamwidth by name in the post der

[http://users.livejournal.com/beat_ho_/]

oh okay
i have now followed some of the threads about dreamwidth being an offshoot of LJ, just curious about people's concerns about LJ dieing, or me needing to back-up my files.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

I think it'll take a while for people to change over, even those who plan to. The "killer app" is for you to be able to read all your LJ friends' posts on your DW reading page, even those that are filtered or friends locked. They originally intended to have that functional before the open beta, but they've changed it over to a task to complete before moving from beta to full release.

So, consider that it's a beta service for now. When I have time to work on it, possibly during a free evening at TribalFest, I'm going to consider going to posting at DW only, with crossposts set here but comments turned off. However one thing that's stopping me is that I really rely on my LJ client, and it hasn't yet been made compatible with DW.

So it's a process. But once that "killer app" is working, there won't be any reason for me to have to check a friends page here, since my DW page will have everything I want to see on it, and my DW posts will show up here. The service just isn't there yet.