Right.

[telophase]

Got a Dreamwidth invite in the random draw from those who had registered their openID there, so I am telophase over there. I'm not leaving LJ for reasons I've explained before, but there's enough people on my f-list here who are discussing about decamping there that I'm considering backing up my LJ over there and crossposting.

I suspect I may need to set up two reading lists over there - one for those who move completely and one for those who crosspost, as reading many duplicated posts a day will be dead boring.

I have no invite codes yet, so don't ask. :) I suggest doing the same thing I did - registering your openID (your LJ address), which allows you to create a reading list over there, and you might also get a code in the random draw.

Those of you who are on Dreamwidth, plz to be letting me know who you are over there and (to make things a wee bit easier) if you're completely moving over there or crossposting. Comments screened in case you don't want people to connect your LJ and DW addresses.

Comments

[riofriotex.livejournal.com]

Wow, Dreamwidth looks a lot like LJ. What are the advantages? I've noticed a lot of my friends list aren't posting much in LJ any more (or if they are, it's mostly Twitter feeds - ugh!). I'm thinking of exporting my LJ to WordPress myself.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

They're using the LJ code, as it's open source, and apparently have been doing a lot of tweaking and recoding to make it smoother, and to add features that LJ users have been requesting.

They are ALSO making some really sensible changes - the one I like best is separating those on your reading list and those who you grant access to your protected/locked/filtered entries. So that you can compile a list of DW journals to read without the potential drama involved in the "friending" terminology and without having to fiddle with too many other filters to restrict access of your journal to them.

I think there's also a plan to make it more fan-friendly, but in all honesty that doesn't concern me that much, as illegal content is still illegal and they have to remove it if they find it. But I think they plan to be more sensible about it than LJ is (or perhaps can be, since it's so huge), so avoid knee-jerk reactions.

I'll leave this unscreened to anyone else who has info can contribute. The reading list/access group dichotomy I love. :D