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So, a majority of people appear to be migrating to DreamWidth. I, however, am not cool enough to do so. (Is anyone else having flashbacks to when LJ was invite-only?)

I have recently (re)rediscovered that I have Twitter -- the second last entry was from last summer, lamenting my early-onset senility for forgetting it the first time. Note: I am neither witty nor erudite at the best of times, and apparently brevity is not the soul of my personal wit.

In other news, I am staring blankly at Final Cut Pro. I would dearly like to actually vid something, however, I appear to be at this strange crossroads of over-inspiration. I have so many ideas that none of them are actually speaking to me, or inspiring me, severely curtailing my ability to actually work on them.

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Oh, man. Invite codes. YES.

hrm. Something multi-fandom with lots of explosions?

Back in the day of invite codes, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and we had THREE icons, damnit, and we bloody well liked it.

Hrm. That is not where my brain has been at, but it might be a refreshing change of pace -- narrative and sense-making is where I tend to fall apart, so abandoning that might lead to success!

When we walked UPHILL BOTH WAYS to get to the one terminal we all had to share for updating Livejournal...

Well. I like explosions. But they don't really lend to sense-making, no. ;] (you could throw in lots of women kicking and punching, too)

No one is cool enough for Dreamwidth yet, or at least no one is reliably cool enough. I got an invite code essentially at random, and that seems to be how that's happening right now; I don't know of many people who actually have some to give to their friends. (And this is all new to me, since I came to LJ after invites, or I never would have gotten an LJ.)

I am cautiously poking at it. It's. Hmmm. I like parts, and there's one part that trips my neuroses hard. But overall, it's a win, I think.

Ahah! I better understand now.

I am pretty much a LJ dinosaur. Like I said above, I remember back in the day of invite codes, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and we had THREE icons, damnit, and we bloody well liked it.

Looking at my user info informs me I have had this journal for more then seven years. Oh my goodness, I really don't know how to feel about that. Other than, you know, ASHAMED of some of the stuff from when I was 16. I'm a perfect argument for people who think the internet should have an age limit.

Here's a good post from

synecdochic talking about the state of Dreamwidth, if you're interested.

Invite codes are very limited, and being mostly randomly handed out. You can make an openID there at any point that lets you subscribe to people, comment, and have up to 6 icons (so far), although you can't post. Once it's out of open beta, they'll still keep a handle on invite codes, so as to try and maintain their income stream, but $3 for a basic paid account bypasses the invite, and accounts can lapse back to free later.

But that's all apart from whether you feel any need to move, at all. DW plans to have easy crossposting to LJ, and a manner of subscribing/creating feeds for LJ posts so basically those on DW can integrate their flists to one, and it sounds to me like it won't be as likely to split things up as current alternatives.

Thanks for the info!

I'm hoping my flist doesn't end up scattered all over the place. I hardly ever remember to update one journal. Two would be asking too much. I'm... really probably not a good candidate for invite codes, in all honesty. Yesterday, I almost made a post about yogurt. With pictures. (My yogurt now comes in an 'Easy Use' tub. I am trying to figure out what people were Doing Wrong before.)

I'll have you know I've made posts about bagels. With pictures. *g* ...do you suppose it has to do with getting the last bits of yogurt out? How is it different than it was? O.o

I can only update two because I do them both at the same time, with semagic. *g* Eventually, DW plans to have that built in to their posting interface, I think.

A lot of people, if not most, who are setting up at DW seem to be planning to continue to crosspost, at least as long as they still have people they want to stay connected to at LJ (I know I plan to). Some are planning to direct comments only to DW; I haven't decided about that, yet. I get not wanting to split up conversations; at the same time, I don't know that I'm entirely comfortable telling people "you have to have a DW account, or register your openID there, if you want to comment to me."

And I know that if you're on DW, they're hoping to have it set up to easily access your LJ flist in a way that will just merge it with your DW reading list. So, we'll see!

aaaand I really have to go to bed, I'm losing track of conversations and repeating myself. *facepalm*

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