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AKK (akk) wrote,
@ 2009-05-02 14:47:00

Current mood:	guilty
Entry tags:	36°, blog, dreamwidth, family matters, fanfic, ij, info, tokyo babylon, x/1999

Moving writing & comments to Dreamwidth
About the future of this journal: moving my writing activities to Dreamwidth

Why Dreamwidth?
Dreamwidth, which I tested thoroughly while it was still in closed beta, offers a lot of awesome features that make cross-posting, commenting, foreign-commenting and generally maintaining my writing journal a lot more easier than the other services I'm using (IJ, JF, LJ). For example:

DW allows crossposting to other sites - such as IJ and JF - and changes made to the DW-post will automatically applied also to the cross-posts. This makes corrections in posted chapters a lot more easier for me than now. In addition, I can set the cross-posted entries to redirect commenting to DW rather than having the commentaries fragmented between the different services.
DW allows to import your journals from different sites into your DW journal including comments; thus I now have all the nice comments from my LJ times *plus* the comments made on IJ back in one journal (and feel finally complete again).
DW's limits for entry and comment word counts are a lot more generous than on the other blogging sites (300.000 characters for entries and 16.000 for comments [for comparison: LJ 65.000 & 4.300!]).
DW's split the friending procedure into "subscribing" and "granting access". Subscribing allows you to keep track of journals on your reading list, but you don't have to reveal your private posts to the subscribers, that's limited to those whom you granted access and those can be filtered further. Makes following your preferred writing a lot more easier. :)
DW allows to refer to people on other blogging services correctly, without duplicating their user name as belonging to their service.
You can log into DW with your LJ- or IJ-identity (as Open-ID) and if you validate your email address, then you have virtually all the features of a free account (minus posting entries of course): you can keep a reading list, receive notifications of replies to your comments; you can even upload up to six icons.
and much more.

In 2008, I moved my writing activities away from LiveJournal when I couldn't bear the uncertainty and annoyance there any more and I found a new, cozy home here at Insane (and let's face it: "insane" is a nice adjective for a physicist in popular culture *g*). I was happy when quite a few of my readers followed me along and got accounts over here as well. Which is the reason that I feel slightly guilty about moving yet again.

Therefore

solo and I together offer seven invite codes for settling into DW to our readers.

I will keep cross-posting to IJ. I will keep watching my friends list here and I am entirely happy to have IJ as reliable backup archive for my blog entries. But I will set comments to take place on DW from now on and I hope people will bear with my wish for comfort and visit me there as well.

Comments to this post are still possible.
Growl at me if you feel to do so. (But I make no guarantees about how my rather possessive ficus benjamini might behave about it.)

Edit: Invite code count: 1

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	primera 2009-05-02 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	Well this makes me at least happy :] I've already got my dreamwidth account all set up (same name), and I like it better than IJ just because.. the interface is prettier. shallow Of course the other features are fab too. I'm going to subscribe to you over there right after this, hopefully that's alright. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	akk 2009-05-03 02:30 am UTC (link)
	Of course. And hi, there. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	amamiya_rin 2009-05-19 06:23 am UTC (link)
	um so in order to join DW, one need invite code? (Reply to this) (Thread)

akk
2009-05-19 06:38 am UTC (link)

You can join with Open-ID, using your insanejournal identity (or livejournal ID) to log in. If you confirm your email address on DW, you have almost all features of a free account (reading list, 6 icons, friending, notification of replies to your comments, etc.) except a posting entries of your own, of course. If you want your own blog to post entries on Dreamwidth, you either need an invite code or you can buy paid time for a month (3 US-$ via creditcard or paypal).

It's primarily dreamwidth's way to keep spam-accounts out, which have been an increasing problem on other blogging services, most notably on LJ. Existing users get invite codes frequently and we can also ask for more if we're out of it and friends or communities want to join.

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	amamiya_rin 2009-05-19 07:00 am UTC (link)
	DW sure is pretty oh i see, so the invite code valid for 1 month only? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

akk
2009-05-19 01:41 pm UTC (link)

No. An invite code allows you to create one free Dreamwidth account. Period. The account exists for as long as Dreamwidth exists or you delete it.

However, you can't create an account on Dreamwidth without either an invite code _or_ paying for at least a month. If you choose to pay for Dreamwidth and your purchased paid time expires, your account will be turned into a free account. Just as it would have happened on LJ or here on IJ for example.

It's quite simple. You might want to read Dreamwidths FAQs and their statements, if I'm too confusing. :)
http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/
http://www.dreamwidth.org/legal/principles

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