Dreamwidth

[moonwise]

Okay you guys, what's the big deal about Dreamwidth? Four or five of you have been posting about it, and it doesn't look all that different from the other LJ-based journaling services. Fill me in!

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[pantswarrior]

The two big things for me are the aforementioned involvement of D (we met in fandom many years ago as well, worked together on the abuse team, and she's one of very few people I trust to actually make a site like this work, because I know she knows what she's doing and that she means what she says about what she wants the site to be), and the cross-compatibility between DW and other sites. Which LJ should have added a long, long time ago, considering how basic the concept is, but they didn't. Since DW is doing it, I'm all for using them instead (since I know D's capable of running a nice, stable site rather than the mess that was GJ, for instance).

Basically it means that once the kinks are worked out, the next time fandom finds a LJ-based site to flee to because they have some irrational fear about LJ, I can stay right on DW and still watch everyone on their new and old journals without making yet another account somewhere else. ;) I got tired of seeing people run in a million different directions. LJ won't help me keep track of them. DW will.