It's an LJ clone that promises not to pull the power plays LJ has been pulling; everyone's frantically squatting on their usernames (myself included) and then waiting to see if this is a flash in the pan or the Myspace-to-Facebook exodus.
New journaling/blogging site, based on LJ code, but with a lot of functional improvements -- not just a clone like some of the other LJ alternatives have been. Fandom-friendly and geek-friendly, but not designed to be only for fandom. Many smart people, no ads.
DreamWidth is a fork of LJ that closely resembles LJ back when it was young and idealistic and hadn't had to start paying the bandwidth bills. There seems to be a widespread belief on my friend list that DreamWidth farts unicorns, makes you more attractive to the opposite sex, and combats global warming.
So far, one of their improvements strikes me as a regression, and the rest aren't worth the extra $10 for a yearly subscription, so I am sitting tight.
The change to the friends list filter system. It effectively limits you to a single filter. I *like* having the option of multiple filters. There are plenty of people that I want to read my day-to-day posts but not my deepest-secret-thoughts post. The description of your friend list system in the faq indicates that I will just have one choice: they read me or they don't.
Unless you are supporting the filter system, which strikes me as disingenuous since the same description decries it as confusing.
Uh, you have misunderstood the subscribe/access split.
You will, actually, have more filters at DW, because you will have both access filters (those are currently implemented) and reading filters (sometime between open beta and launch.)
What it does mean is that you can add someone to your reading page without giving them access to any of your locked content, and you can give somebody access to your locked content without ever again having to scroll past their entries on subjects you find dull. But you are still welcome to have a deepest-secret-thoughts and a mildly-secret-thoughts and a not-so-much-secret-as-embarrassing-thoughts filter, up to 60.
What FAQ are you reading? The FAQs on the DW website are incomplete (it's in closed beta) and if it's something on the wiki, I would like to change it to be more accurate.
I was reading over my girlfriend's shoulder, and now I can't find the exact page she was looking at. It is possible it was someone else who was also misinformed about the filters.
This page doesn't make it clear that the reading and access lists are filterable separately, but doesn't say they aren't either. Not unclear so much as incomplete, I guess.
That casts a different light on the whole thing. Thanks for taking the time to set me straight.
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That was nowhere *near* 100.
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Thanks!
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So far, one of their improvements strikes me as a regression, and the rest aren't worth the extra $10 for a yearly subscription, so I am sitting tight.
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Unless you are supporting the filter system, which strikes me as disingenuous since the same description decries it as confusing.
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You will, actually, have more filters at DW, because you will have both access filters (those are currently implemented) and reading filters (sometime between open beta and launch.)
What it does mean is that you can add someone to your reading page without giving them access to any of your locked content, and you can give somebody access to your locked content without ever again having to scroll past their entries on subjects you find dull. But you are still welcome to have a deepest-secret-thoughts and a mildly-secret-thoughts and a not-so-much-secret-as-embarrassing-thoughts filter, up to 60.
What FAQ are you reading? The FAQs on the DW website are incomplete (it's in closed beta) and if it's something on the wiki, I would like to change it to be more accurate.
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This page doesn't make it clear that the reading and access lists are filterable separately, but doesn't say they aren't either. Not unclear so much as incomplete, I guess.
That casts a different light on the whole thing. Thanks for taking the time to set me straight.
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