Huh

[heathershaped]

I'm not intentionally spamming or anything but...

The whole Dreamwidth thing; what gives? I hadn't even heard about it until just this week, but apparently this is that new fandom-friendly LJ-esque service about which there has been buzz for over a year now. Are any of you planning to get one? I don't mind grabbing an account if people I know are going over there (because I can never resist trying new shiny things), even if I have no earthly intention of leaving LJ.

The fact that there is already an an inaugural comment!porn meme is a good sign.

This stuff just makes me worry more about fandom dissipating, though. Sigh.

*looks into setting up an OpenID while I read more about what gives*

Comments

[florahart]

synecdochic is building it. She used to work for LJ, and has been taking LJ's code and tinkering with the weird parts (e.g., the comment size limit is way bigger; the concept of how the flist works is split into a read and a trust...). The place isn't open for accounts yet (the accounts that exist are the folks building and helping with code and beta and stuff), but will be very soon.

You can see her LJ for more; she's "denise" over there. I dunno if she's tagged why she's doing all this so much, but I imagine if you really wanna know, you could read back and find out.

Above comment on this being the fourth or fifth--well, both this and OTW are active organizations that have been *building something* for a year and change; it's just that they're trying to look at what exists and build something stable with checks and balances and without building a *business* for it. This takes time.

[heather11483.livejournal.com]

I like some of what I've been reading about it (not enough to jump-ship or anything, but it looks like there'll be a small-but-growing group over there, Creating Things, and if the crossposting is as easy as it seems, it might be worth getting into so that I can read, follow, and comment on those Things with ease).

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Also, zomg no kidding about the comment length!!

*is not peeking at comment!porn meme*