![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
A bit about Dreamwidth
Based on the number of "... what is Dreamwidth?" answers to the poll in my last post, here is a quick overview. (As I understand it, anyway; I have a number of the people who are involved and/or enthusiastic backers of the site on my f'list, but I'm not personally involved with it. Please correct me if I pass along misinformation!)
- Dreamwidth is a new journaling/blogging site that will be opening up this summer. It's planned to be fandom-friendly (edit: but not exclusively fannish) and fairly small, at least at first. You will need to either buy an account or get an invite code from an existing user to get in, like LJ used to be. (Paid accounts start at $3/month, and you can let your account lapse to a free account later if you like.)
- Here is a list of features that are different from LJ (discovered via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
foxfirefey)
- Here is a roundup of posts by people who are planning on switching from LJ (link fromrydra_wong)
- Here is Dreamwidth's About/FAQ page (still in beta itself) with sundry informative links.
The answers to the poll in my earlier post indicate that (at least around these parts) most people who are opening DW accounts will still be cross-posting to LJ, and many people won't be moving at all, at least not until things shake out a bit. One of the nice things about Dreamwidth is that, from what I can see, it's being designed so that it will be easy to use with other blogging sites -- i.e. you can have an LJ and still participate easily in DW discussions, be friended by people on DW, etc., and it works very smoothly with Open ID.
- Dreamwidth is a new journaling/blogging site that will be opening up this summer. It's planned to be fandom-friendly (edit: but not exclusively fannish) and fairly small, at least at first. You will need to either buy an account or get an invite code from an existing user to get in, like LJ used to be. (Paid accounts start at $3/month, and you can let your account lapse to a free account later if you like.)
- Here is a list of features that are different from LJ (discovered via
foxfirefey)- Here is a roundup of posts by people who are planning on switching from LJ (link from
rydra_wong)- Here is Dreamwidth's About/FAQ page (still in beta itself) with sundry informative links.
The answers to the poll in my earlier post indicate that (at least around these parts) most people who are opening DW accounts will still be cross-posting to LJ, and many people won't be moving at all, at least not until things shake out a bit. One of the nice things about Dreamwidth is that, from what I can see, it's being designed so that it will be easy to use with other blogging sites -- i.e. you can have an LJ and still participate easily in DW discussions, be friended by people on DW, etc., and it works very smoothly with Open ID.
no subject
Really like the idea of the split access filter.
Not sure about the price, but will wait to see how things shake, but now I have a better understanding of it.
no subject
no subject
Well, if you get an invite code, there is no price -- the basic accounts are free (and ad-free).
So it's just a question of whether you feel the benefits of a paid account are worth it, and/or want to support the service financially.
(As I understand it, the prices for paid accounts are higher than on LJ because they're genuinely planning to make the service sustainable on the basis of paid accounts, with no advertising, and have put a lot of thought into the finances.)
ETA note: not an official DW person of any kind, just over-enthused *g*.