So, you remember
when I mentioned how LJ installed some third-party code to rummage through all the links you include in your posts, and stick affiliate links on them to earn cash? But the coders were horribly amateur and didn't know how to filter URLs, so they broke a bunch of links, overwrote people's own affiliate IDs, and generally made a dog's
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So, I figured, time to find out who would, before the straw that breaks the smarriveurr's back.
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The access problems seem more important than anything else. DW has excellent interoperability, as far as I'm concerned, so I could theoretically maintain both easily. I'd just prefer to have all the discussion in one place, since that's both how interesting people find each other and how discussions become more rich. Nothing more irritating than having the same basic discussion twice in two places because each person doesn't know what you've already said to the other.
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I've really liked DW's philosophy from the get-go, and I'd like, from a "pick the better company" perspective, to shift over there. And when I renew my paid account here in a couple of days, I'm probably not going to go for a whole year at a time this time. But I'm going to need some time to play, and see how following LJ communities from DW works, and things like that. Between inertia and userbase... I don't know.
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I've been contemplating asking my flist who'd be annoyed if I turned off comments here and forced them to comment there.
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My main concern is that, since I'm not widely advertising on DW what my LJ is (though the LJ -> DW is mostly OK), it would be even easier to figure out my LJ ID once a bunch of OpenID LJ users start commenting.
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They support the lj codes, so there is no problem with links and such (there are ways to enter them, the FAQ is fairly clear)
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The whole thing seems remarkably well done, and they're small enough to be more agile about things than LJ can be.
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This dreamwidth thing looks neat. I'd like to play with it to see how it works.
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And as far as I can tell, DW works like LJ, but better, with more useful features (like searching your locked posts) and run by interesting people as opposed to soulless corporations.
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