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 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.

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 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.

Supernatural 4x17

( ... damn youuuu, SPN ... )

Supernatural 4x17

( ... damn youuuu, SPN ... )