Anyone for Dreamwidth invite codes?

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I have a few. The site's still very much in beta, and really so, we're actually working on bugs, not just that web 2.0 thing where everything is permanently in beta. But if you want to play around or reserve your username before the official launch, do comment. I expect you all know what Dreamwidth is by now; I might do a post talking about it properly later on, but right now codes up for grabs. If you think I don't know your email address, pm me.

And yes, I am planning to move over fully as soon as the site launches into public beta. More on that later.

ETA: Four down, two to go... within a quarter of an hour of posting. You guys are quick like bunnies!

ETA2: All gone! I'll try and pick up some more but no promises, they're still limiting site growth pretty strictly just now.

ETA3: Already 3 8 people in the queue for any more that show up. There may be faster ways of getting codes than joining said queue, but I'll give them away as fast as they show up if you'd like to add your name to the list. Sorry, Americans, it just fell out that way.

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Dreamwidth is shaping up to be an actual viable replacement for LJ, something I've been waiting for for a long time now. It's a code fork, not a clone, so they're making some pretty dramatic changes and writing something usable and modern, and getting rid of all the accumulated cruft from a site that's developed mostly organically over ten years. It's commercial and has a serious, long-term business plan in place, but it's not a web startup dependent on venture capital or advertising revenue. The people running it are people who were employed by LJ in the early days so they know the site better than pretty much anyone else in the world.

The thing that impresses me is that it's not even open to the public yet, and it's already bigger than Inksome or CommieJournal and more stable / usable than InsaneJournal or DeadJournal. Just that, an LJ alternative which is ad-free and has prospects for actually being viable beyond a bunch of friends who don't mind the scaffolding showing, would be a big deal, but they're introducing some really useful new features. Most notably, you can read people's journals without giving them access to your locked content, or vice versa, without messing around with awkward filters (and they no longer call someone your "friend" just because you happen to have their journal in your feed list).

Eventually they hope to make it seamlessly interoperable with other sites using the LJ or Dreamwidth codebase, and possibly even Blogspot and Wordpress further down the line. If that happens it would be the awesomest thing ever, but even if they don't quite achieve that, it's already looking a lot better than LJ in many ways. And because they're putting serious effort into making OpenID actually work, I am hoping I'm going to be able to move over there fully without abandoning LJ or really even making my still-on-LJ friends notice much difference.

Also, almost entirely female-dominated Open Source project, where they're providing mentoring for newbie coders, and are seriously committed to accessibility in all meanings of the word. Genuinely queer-friendly and open to people from all cultures in the way that LJ pays lip-service to, but they're actually walking the walk. (I have been told to rewrite some of my draft FAQs so they avoid using the word "see" or assuming that people are reading the internet with a standard screen+mouse+keyboard setup, which is challenging, but so very well worth doing.)