Personally I rather like that they've got rid of the things like 'friends' (such a loaded term with way too much potential for drama) but I can't really see the point of it. IMO the LJ style site's time has gone - LJ will carry on in a low-key way, but Dreamwidth will go the same way as all the other wannabes...
I do not know either. Apparently there are a few tweaks that make Dreamwidth a bit better than LJ, but they can't be that good because I have forgotten most of them. It's stuff like being able to have a longer username and add someone to your friends list without them being to read your entries. I don't really see the point as we are all established on LJ, and as you pointed out recently, a lot of people don't even bother to keep their LJ updated. I already have an LJ, a blog, a Twitter and a Facebook and I don't want another thing to bother about so I basically just signed up and ignored it from then on.
True, but as LJ and Dreamwidth are so similar, I don't think people would drift over the way they did to LJ. You'd have to switch overnight or start making identical posts to both.
DW's mainly, as far as I can tell, had a bunch of tweaks and fixes of things that had been annoying its developers for some time.
The friends thing's a good example. It's widely argued that calling anyone on your reading list a "friend", whether or not you've ever met them or have any personal relationship with them, just encourages pointless melodrama (which is implicitly considered a bad thing..). In fact, that list covers three functions - a reading list, an access control list, and a social declaration. The first two should be separated and the third . . . doesn't necessarily need made in that sense.
It also allows longer user names, which is why I wanted one.
Quite some time ago Livejournal was sold to a Russian company, SUP. Since Livejournal's main userbase mainly consists of paranoid nutjobs with an unjustified sense of entitlement this caused an uproar. "IT'S THE KGP SPYING ON OUR PRIVATE POSTS!" some cried
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Personally I rather like that they've got rid of the things like 'friends' (such a loaded term with way too much potential for drama) but I can't really see the point of it. IMO the LJ style site's time has gone - LJ will carry on in a low-key way, but Dreamwidth will go the same way as all the other wannabes...
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The friends thing's a good example. It's widely argued that calling anyone on your reading list a "friend", whether or not you've ever met them or have any personal relationship with them, just encourages pointless melodrama (which is implicitly considered a bad thing..). In fact, that list covers three functions - a reading list, an access control list, and a social declaration. The first two should be separated and the third . . . doesn't necessarily need made in that sense.
It also allows longer user names, which is why I wanted one.
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People have misinterpreted that as Dreamwidth being the next cool thing.
My favourite post so far was Poggs who said he didn't have time to post to read Livejournal anymore, so he's moving to Dreamwidth.
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That is one part of the inspiration for this post. :-)
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