A verbose entry trying to explain Dreamwidth to people who have never used LJ.

Here's one thing you probably didn't know about me (especially if you don't know me in RL): I don't react very fast or very well to surprises. This makes me bad in most of the following: phone calls from people I don't know, IM convos with people I don't usually chat with, IRC, interviews, lunches, people singing birthday songs on my birthday even though I knew it was going to happen, and conversations.

I was trying to explain to a few people why I'm on Dreamwidth (or LiveJournal) and not somewhere else, and didn't succeed very well. This comes as no surprise! As compensation, I shall write about it here. (Hello there, some people from work. The cape sort of gave away the secret identity, I guess.)

This entry is mainly for some friends who are used to other blogging platforms that are not LiveJournal or Dreamwidth. Most, if not all, things here are already familiar to LJ users, so usual readers can ignore this entry. XD

But first! If you have a journal or blog elsewhere, let me direct you to the awesome renay's post on OpenID. With it you can comment on Dreamwidth and do a whole lot of other things, most of them very useful.



. . . Let's start over.

( Why I am on Dreamwidth and not some other blogging platform )





A Note: Dreamwidth is still in open beta, so there might be glitches here and there. Report them to Support, if it's a bug it'll go to Bugzilla where someone will pick it up and fix it. In time. (Maybe one day I'll be able to fix something! I am working towards that! Do not mock my fixation with code!)

You'll need either an invite code or to purchase a paid account to create a Dreamwidth account. (I used to have codes, but I've given them out. You can try dw_codesharing to see if anyone has extras.)

That is all.


The end!