Anybody still looking for a Dreamwidth invite?

[annathepiper]

DW just threw me two more codes, and meanwhile, my friend cow has a whole mess of 'em. So if anybody needs a code, sing out. First two to sing out can have mine, further parties, I'll point you at cow.

ETA 2:45pm: thunderpigeon just took code #1, I have one left!

Comments

[thunderpigeon.livejournal.com]

I'd like one, please.

[annathepiper]

Okay! I just threw you an invite email to your yahoo address.

[thunderpigeon.livejournal.com]

Got it. Thanks!

So is Dreamwidth any different from any other blog site?

[annathepiper]

You're welcome!

Dreamwidth is primarily an offshoot of Livejournal but has done extensive work customizing the default LJ code to do several unique things. For example, you can mirror posts from Dreamwidth out to LJ or other LJ-type sites. Also, they've done some work to separate the idea of your "Friends list" into the concepts of "whose journals you're reading" and "who gets to have access to your locked stuff".

And, they're real big on OpenID, so that even if you don't have an actual full DW account, you can subscribe at the OpenID level to locked DW content.

So for example, if I didn't already have a DW account, I could subscribe to your locked stuff with the OpenID annathepiper.livejournal.com and you could still add me to your filters and stuff.

DW is still in beta but I found several of their code changes interesting enough to keep half an eye on 'em. Right now though I'm just mirroring content to there.

[kriski.livejournal.com]

you can point people in my direction as well, i have a whole bagfull that i don't really need. i advertised in the code sharing community, but somehow that got no response...

[annathepiper]

Thank you kindly!

[cats-haven.livejournal.com]

Dreamwidth?

Am I Helpful Yet? :)

[logrusboy.livejournal.com]

In our hostess' own words:

"Dreamwidth is primarily an offshoot of Livejournal but has done extensive work customizing the default LJ code to do several unique things. For example, you can mirror posts from Dreamwidth out to LJ or other LJ-type sites. Also, they've done some work to separate the idea of your "Friends list" into the concepts of "whose journals you're reading" and "who gets to have access to your locked stuff".

And, they're real big on OpenID, so that even if you don't have an actual full DW account, you can subscribe at the OpenID level to locked DW content.

So for example, if I didn't already have a DW account, I could subscribe to your locked stuff with the OpenID annathepiper.livejournal.com and you could still add me to your filters and stuff.

DW is still in beta but I found several of their code changes interesting enough to keep half an eye on 'em. Right now though I'm just mirroring content to there."

Re: Am I Helpful Yet? :)

[cats-haven.livejournal.com]

Very helpful. This sounds like an awesome site. :)

Re: Am I Helpful Yet? :)

[annathepiper]

It seems to be the most interesting of the LJ spinoff sites I've encountered to date, just because they're doing creative and unique things with the code. So, yeah. Keeping an eye on it. It'll be fun to see how they hold up once they go live for real, and out of beta.

Re: Am I Helpful Yet? :)

[cats-haven.livejournal.com]

Mind if I borrow a code? I'd love to see the full beta before it goes live.

That's if you have one.

Re: Am I Helpful Yet? :)

[annathepiper]

I still had one left, so sure, you can have that one. What email address should I fling it at? (Email me at annathepiper on gmail if you don't want to post an address in a comment.)

Re: Am I Helpful Yet? :)

[cats-haven.livejournal.com]

S'ok. send it to sabbath.silverclaw[at]gmail.com

Re: Am I Helpful Yet? :)

[annathepiper]

Done!

Re: Am I Helpful Yet? :)

[annathepiper]

Heh, you beat me to answering this! Thanks. :)