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[kschap]

I'm beginning to become more interested in using Dreamwidth. Too tired to expound on it right now, unfortunately. :P

Thoughts?

Anyone want an invite code? I have a handful.

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[disgorge]

Tell me about Dreamwidth :) What makes it different/special?

[colorwhirl]

I'm going to re-use a comment I made a few days ago to explain a little bit about DW, since I'm a firm believer and very happy Dreamer:

DW can do pretty much anything LJ can do, but most of the stuff on DW has been cleaned up and actually works.

For example, journal search on DW actually finds what I need. Site-wide search, ditto. They offer all the same coding (so LJ cuts and friend links and rich-text/enhanced posting options) with code that they've cleaned up and made better.

DW doesn't have phone posting or SMS posting yet, but they're working on the SMS posting thing.

My favorite DW-only feature is expandable cut tags! On LJ, if you click someone's LJ cut, you are taken to a new page, right? (Yes.) On DW, each cut tag has an arrow next to it:

[kschap]

I'm trying to make transferring to Dreamwidth as seamless as possible. Therefore I'm curious: if I've imported my friends and security settings over to my DW account from LJ and am cross-posting, will my posting filters still be valid between sites? Forgive me if this is something easily findable: I haven't been online terribly much lately and when I have, it's mostly involved zoning out on Facebook and Farmville. :P

Also, is there any way I can read my friends page here on DW?

[colorwhirl]

if I've imported my friends and security settings over to my DW account from LJ and am cross-posting, will my posting filters still be valid between sites?

I would give them a once-over to make sure they look like what you want, but I can personally verify the following: if the filter has the same name on both sites, it will worth on both sites. For example, I have a filter limited to just wyldlittlepoet here on LJ. Her user name on DW is something else and I included that username in the filter, but the filter is still called "wyldlittlepoet." When I post something with that filter, both DW and LJ filter it appropriately. (Does that make sense? I might not be using my words very well.)

Also, is there any way I can read my friends page here on DW?

I've seen that talked about multiple times, and I'm not sure what's up with that right now. I'm tired so my search-fu is suffering a little bit, but I know that it's on the table at DW. Let me poke around a little tomorrow and get back to you, please!

[colorwhirl]

Cross-posting is a magical feature. I love it.

[irrational84]

I very recently got a DW account but I don't know what to do with it! I wanna meet people and stuff but I don't know how.

[kschap]

Well, you could add me! :D

I'm 'daughtercell' over there :)

[irrational84]

I just granted you access!

I have a (slightly) different username over there, but hopefully you'll be able to remember who's who :)

[kschap]

Yeah, I kind of like how it looks better than LiveJournal too. And there IS cross-posting--I'd write there, but it would also show up here, and you'd still be able to read it and comment.

I think long-form blogging is getting less and less popular, but when I've searched DW for people with particular interests, it seems that the few people who are there have updated more recently than a lot of the LJ accounts I've found lately.

If you want to move over there and crosspost to here or something, let me know; I could give you a code. :)

[phoenixdreaming]

yaaaay Dreamwidth! I'm over there as phoenix. I crosspost everything, but nearly all of the interesting comment action happens over there.