Dreamwidth

May 04, 2009 13:22

I received an invite this morning - but from a rather unexpected source. (: So thank you smallwaldo. 'Tis very kind. ^_ ( Read more... )

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phantomreviewer May 4 2009, 12:50:46 UTC
What IS Dreamwidth? I still don't get it.

*confused*

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laligin May 4 2009, 13:20:43 UTC
Livejournal by another name, sort of. Like InsaneJournal and GreatestJournal. I've yet to work out if there's any difference that makes Dreamwidth (I refuse to refer to it as DW, for obvious reasons...) so special, but loads of people are getting one and I just wanted to reserve my name in case there is ever a grand exodus. I doubt it, though.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/ <-- That's the homepage
http://laligin.dreamwidth.org/profile <-- And that's my profile. Basically the same as LJ. Except you need invites for it, which always has people jumping on board quick in case the invites run out, I think. (:

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phantomreviewer May 4 2009, 13:22:30 UTC
Okays, I get it now. :-D

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laligin May 4 2009, 13:23:12 UTC
*throws a salute* Then my work here is done. ;) Happy to help.

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dr_is_in May 4 2009, 13:28:54 UTC
I asked her to send you one when she said she had some because I didn't know when I was going to get more (I have 4 of them right now though, so if you know someone who needs one...)

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laligin May 4 2009, 13:32:23 UTC
I did wonder. ^_^ Thank you kindly. At the moment I think it's all fine... (: But thank you for the offer also. ;)

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arlessiar May 4 2009, 17:45:47 UTC
I got an invite, too, and opened an account over there. But just like with Greatest journal or Insane journal, I don't think that DreaWi (calling it DW is confusing if one is a Doctor Who fan) will become bigger than LJ. But who knows. I have my name safe over there, and I used it as a backup for all my LJ entries. I won't post there, I think, at least not in a long while. I paid for LJ and will stay here. Now I only need to figure out if I can crosspost somehow, because I want my upcoming entries to show up on DreaWi too (the backup thing).

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laligin May 4 2009, 17:54:23 UTC
Likewise. I found out how to crosspost from Dreamwidth to LJ, but the reverse is not true. Hm. I may just update here for a bit then re-import.

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arlessiar May 4 2009, 20:48:27 UTC
I planned on doing that, too. But my guess is that you cannot choose which posts you want to import, that you'd have to import everything, the new stuff and that what's already there, again, and that would screw up all my locked-or-not-locked settings again. Ah well, better than no backup at all I guess. :)

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hab318princess May 4 2009, 17:51:07 UTC
Hi, found you there... (and I somehow managed to change to a violet colour, slightly better than the pink)

but yeah, I think I'll stay on LJ as well

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laligin May 4 2009, 17:58:04 UTC
Hallo. Has added you back etc. I've been poking around at changing my own journal style but can't really be bothered right now, and it's mostly the default homepage stuff that I loathe.

LJ is prettier and more convenient, and it says something in the FAQ about not being able to import communities, so I'm thinking that alone could bring the exodus to a grinding halt before it's taken more than a step...

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hab318princess May 4 2009, 18:07:57 UTC
Hello, and yeah, so far I prefer LJ, but got caught up in worry that I won't get my name over there... (I've also got an unused myspace and insanejournal for the same reason - sad me)

didn't know that about communities, but agree that could / would be a problem, people would have to run two parallel.

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arlessiar May 4 2009, 20:52:46 UTC
Facebook, myspace, flickr, Insanejournal, greatest journal... I have accounts on quite a few of these websites, just to 'save my nickname'. Accounts I never use or even forgot about again. Weird world. :D

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laufeyette May 4 2009, 19:50:20 UTC

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