Anyone for Dreamwidth invite codes?

[liv]

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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[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I would, please. My email address is linked from my LJ profile page.

[mummimamma.livejournal.com]

Yes please! So far I have registrered with an Open ID which works great by the way.

[rozallin.livejournal.com]

I would like a code as and when one becomes available please.

[liv]

The only email address I have for you is @lj; is that the one you want to use for your main DW address that will control the account?

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't know what Dreamwidth is. Please enlighten me!

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

yes please :)

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Have already asked Katy.

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Replacement for LJ. Same codebase, different priorities.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

'nkoo, Moley. In that case, I'd like a code, please, if they haven't all gone.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[liv]

Dreamwidth is an actual code fork of LJ, run by people who know what they're doing technically and business-wise. It's being rewritten almost entirely, with the aim of keeping all the good features of LJ and removing all the annoying ones, and adding some new cool stuff as the project gets bigger.

So, like LJ it has fine-grained privacy controls, is easy to use if you're not into coding and highly customizable if you are a geek or web designer, has icons and threaded comments and a decent notification system and collates everything you want to read on one page. But unlike LJ, it has no ads, doesn't use twee emotive terms like "friends", has a separate category for journals you read from people with access to your restricted content, handles OpenID properly so you can work across several sites easily, has accessibility built in from day one, has a sensible and non-intrusive system for adult content... Come and play around; you can log in as miss_next@livejournal.com if you don't want to create an actual account when you know nothing about it.

[liv]

I'll send it to your Gmail address, that ok?

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me, but I can't actually log in using my LJ ID!

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

yep

[liv]

I'll send you the last one if you let me know an email address other than your LJ one. Or I'll send it to your LJ email if you're sure you really want to use that. (I'm sort of advising people not to use an email address which is only an alias with no mailbox attached, and which is dependent on LJ, as the main email address which controls the account, but you might have a good reason to do so.)

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

I've sent you a PM. Has that not come through?

[liv]

Try these steps: at the top right of the page, next to the login box, there's a link titled "Log in with OpenID". You will see a box with the OpenID symbol, and the title "Your OpenID URL". Type miss-next.livejournal.com in the box. (NB use a hyphen, not an underscore, that's one of the slightly confusing things about the OpenID system.) That will send you to an LJ page which will ask for confirmation that you want to let DW use your identity. Confirm, and then you should be in.

[kake]

Thank you! I'm now on there as kake (finally! I have my name back!)

[liv]

Yup, got it now. You should have the code in your email :-)

[pne.livejournal.com]

When I got an invite code, it was sent to my Gmail address; when I created an account, I don't think the email address field was pre-filled at all.

So it seems to me that what address the invite code is sent to is arbitrary (and could be exampleusername@livejournal.com, for example), as long as you suggest to them that they think twice before using that address when actually going ahead and creating the account.

[liv]

Ooh, yay! I am really pleased to have Liv over there, but kake is your name in a much more serious way. Glad I could help.

[liv]

Ah, ok, maybe I'm being excessively cautious, then. Thinking about the differences in how the invite code system works from LJ, it does actually make sense that it doesn't matter which address I send the invite to. Good to know, thank you.

[deborah_c]

If you should get any more (or have a friend with spares), I'd love one next time round?

[daharyn.livejournal.com]

what deborah_c said? Please?

[redbird]

damn! That's what I get for being asleep.

Yes, please, I would like one, if you get more.