Oh, I'm so excited about Dreamwidth. I would just love to tell you.
Do you remember back when we got kicked off the BBs at skiffy? For being slashers or talking off topic or daring to make the boards something other than what TPTB thought they would be? When we came to LiveJournal I thought that was going to be our backyard, more than the yahoo group, because Fandom already thrived here.
And then Live Journal sold out to Six Apart who sold out to someone else or something something I can't keep track of all of it. But it was opaque, even to those in my aquaintance who really keep track of the code and the adjustments and the news feeds. Journals and communities started getting banned for doing fandom kinds of things. It... was a little familiar.
So, aquaintances on LJ, turns out, are really smart. synecdochic, who is an avid slasher and fanfic writer, used to work for LiveJournal, and is a primary mind behind DreamWidth. She and Mark, the other half of the dynamic duo, started with the LiveJournal open source code they used to work with, and built the code they always wanted. Are trying to create a culture than includes rather than excludes, and they are trying like hell to do it right, using all they know. No ads. No crazy low word count posting limits. No strange 'friends' titles for journals you just want to read (it's your reading circle) a MUCH BETTER way to organize how you want to filter your reading circle, how you differentiate between people you want to read and people you want to have access to your locked posts.
It's just... so smart. So far, I'm so, so impressed. Down to just laying solid groundwork, they seem to be doing everything right.
You can check out some other people's posts, if you're interested? Ivory Gates (http://ivorygates.livejournal.com/103014.html), Synecdochic in general posting about DreamWidth (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/tag/dreamwidth) and her initial introduction to it. (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/304699.html)
I could go on, but I'm hyped on cold meds, alas. It's killing my productivity.
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Date: 2009-03-30 09:54 pm (UTC)Do you remember back when we got kicked off the BBs at skiffy? For being slashers or talking off topic or daring to make the boards something other than what TPTB thought they would be? When we came to LiveJournal I thought that was going to be our backyard, more than the yahoo group, because Fandom already thrived here.
And then Live Journal sold out to Six Apart who sold out to someone else or something something I can't keep track of all of it. But it was opaque, even to those in my aquaintance who really keep track of the code and the adjustments and the news feeds. Journals and communities started getting banned for doing fandom kinds of things. It... was a little familiar.
So, aquaintances on LJ, turns out, are really smart.
It's just... so smart. So far, I'm so, so impressed. Down to just laying solid groundwork, they seem to be doing everything right.
You can check out some other people's posts, if you're interested? Ivory Gates (http://ivorygates.livejournal.com/103014.html), Synecdochic in general posting about DreamWidth (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/tag/dreamwidth) and her initial introduction to it. (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/304699.html)
I could go on, but I'm hyped on cold meds, alas. It's killing my productivity.