Dreamwidth: being awesome

[juliet]

Dreamwidth has been having problems with people hassling them as a service (details, for obvious reasons, not released). PayPal, when contacting by the trolls, demanded that DW take down perfectly legal content. Instead of doing this, DW is sticking by their Guiding Principles & is in the process of switching merchant providers (not a trivial thing to do). Now, *this* is the sort of reaction I want to see from a journal service.

I've been crossposting (I love the automagic crossposter) for ages; at present I'm still hanging on for reading-page interoperability before I jump ship altogether, but I'll be letting my LJ paid account lapse soon. Partly because I like DW, and partly because the site is so much easier to use (& keeps getting better!).

I've got DW invites available if anyone wants to come over & try it out.

Comments

[auntsarentgents]

Reading-page interoperability would be awesome :)

[juliet]

It's in Bugzilla! (And marked as "blocking launch", & thus hopefully is on the way...)

[flick]

I asked about it a few months back and got a slightly vague comment about needing to sort out privacy issues: has it moved on since then? The comments on Bugzilla seem to be stuck at the same point.

I'm really looking forward to it!

[juliet]

I'm not sure! (And right now is probably not a good time to be bothering people about it :) ) But I do know that there is active movement towards launch; and (from the Bugzilla tag) that this wants to be done before launch. So I continue optimistic. It is known to be a Hard Problem, though (to do it both without affecting privacy, and without hammering the servers at the other end).

[flick]

And right now is probably not a good time to be bothering people about it :)

Absolutely!

[lnr]

I'm commenting here rather than there, since people over there probably already know, but I was particularly impressed that they said basically "we don't need more donations over this, if you have spare cash give it to Haiti instead".

I'll stick with openID myself, at least for now, since I'm an LJ permanent member.

[juliet]

Yes, I should have mentioned that being another thing that greatly impressed me.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear all around!

[e-dan.livejournal.com]

At some point my blog-energy will be up to updating my 'read_friends' link from lj to dw...but not today.

I *think* I'm being reticent because all the "switch to DW!" posts I see seem to be a version of 'if there wasn't an alternative then I'd work around this limitation but because there is then I'll use this particular issue which is not *the* issue but close enough as a sticking point'. Which...bleh, whatever. I'm a rubbish blogger anyway.

[e-dan.livejournal.com]

...which *isn't* to say your point about LJ vs. DW isn't a good point in itself! Forgot to add that part xx

[juliet]

Well, for me, the social advantages of LJ are such that I am prepared to put up with a fair quantity of irritation (of various sorts) to continue using it for the social stuff. If I can get that from a service which *doesn't* have those irritations, then I am much happier!

So I guess it's not so much one single limitation/irritation, as a collection of them that altogether mean I would prefer to use another service, if I can get that to interoperate so that I can keep on reading locked posts!