Dreamwidth continues to become more tempting

[jducoeur]

Even if you're not actively on DW, its news community can be an interesting read. They do weekly postings about enhancements, and when I see entries like this week's -- with features like dynamically-expandable cut tags, and merging of old tags so you can clean up your past entries -- the temptation to switch continues to grow...

Comments

[serakit.livejournal.com]

I attempted to at least create an account there and discovered that you apparently can't if you don't pay for it. I would call that a flaw in anything trying to replace LJ...

[etherial.livejournal.com]

It's still in beta, probably because it wasn't as popular as they expected it to be. You need an invite code, just like in LJ's glory days.

[ckd]

Depends on what you want from an LJ replacement. I'd rather have invite codes (remember, LJ used to use them) combined with the ability to buy a one-month account for $3 as a way to bypass the code system than have ads and Pepsi-can vgifts.

I'd have LJ-messaged you an invite code, but I can't send you a message...so here it is; let me know if someone uses it before you get there, and I'll give you another one.

[serakit.livejournal.com]

Yay! It worked! Thank you.

[jducoeur]

Oh, right -- invite codes! I'd forgotten all about those until etherial pointed it out. I've got one or two, since I'm a paid member -- want one?

[soph.livejournal.com]

Hiya,

You don't know me (and neither does jducoeur), but I came across this post while looking for Dreamwidth stuff. I know you have a code now, but one thing we're trying hard to do at Dreamwidth is to make it easy for people to find codes. There's a community called (http://dw-codesharing.dreamwidth.org/profile)dw_codesharing (http://dw-codesharing.dreamwidth.org/), which is linked on the front page of Dreamwidth (http://dreamwidth.org/), where there are normally tons of invite codes. If you didn't know about that, then I have a question - where in your opinion would be the best place to put it so that people do know it exists?

For the record, I'm not staff at Dreamwidth, but I am a volunteer for them.

(apologies if I'm intruding, btw - both to you and to jducoeur.)

[jducoeur]

Not a problem -- good to see the DW community doing this sort of outreach, especially with the newer users...