Rather like LJ back when it was young and earnest and rather less overrun with management idiocy (a process which, to tell the truth, began sometime before Our New Russian Overlords took charge).
...probably round about when it got sold off the first time, right? although Six Apart seemed a little more clueful about the user base, in some ways, than teh Russian Overlords. Or maybe it's just that the Russian Overlords only pay attention to the Russian side of things.
(LJ was, one notes, making enough money before being sold the first time that it could have gone on indefinitely that way. Which is why the Dreamwidth folk figure they can make that model work sustainably.)
At the moment I'm too lazy and entrenched to move, but we'll see.
Heh. Which is pretty much why I don't even have an InsaneJournal account! :) (Or...do I? huh...*very vaguely remembers signing up for one...*) But the fact that DW is actually going to be developing code, plus the fact that I can't see LJ doing anything but getting gradually worse, tipped the balance.
Besides. I can get the username shadowandflame over there. :) (Which I always wanted on LJ, but someone else has it!)
If and when you go, you must leave a forwarding address!
But of course. :) I shall write a post all about it (with my first impressions of DreamWidth, too). And, like I said, I'll mirror posts for a while, and leave a note when I stop doing that.
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Date: 2009-02-25 06:40 pm (UTC)...probably round about when it got sold off the first time, right? although Six Apart seemed a little more clueful about the user base, in some ways, than teh Russian Overlords. Or maybe it's just that the Russian Overlords only pay attention to the Russian side of things.
(LJ was, one notes, making enough money before being sold the first time that it could have gone on indefinitely that way. Which is why the Dreamwidth folk figure they can make that model work sustainably.)
At the moment I'm too lazy and entrenched to move, but we'll see.
Heh. Which is pretty much why I don't even have an InsaneJournal account! :) (Or...do I? huh...*very vaguely remembers signing up for one...*) But the fact that DW is actually going to be developing code, plus the fact that I can't see LJ doing anything but getting gradually worse, tipped the balance.
Besides. I can get the username shadowandflame over there. :) (Which I always wanted on LJ, but someone else has it!)
If and when you go, you must leave a forwarding address!
But of course. :) I shall write a post all about it (with my first impressions of DreamWidth, too). And, like I said, I'll mirror posts for a while, and leave a note when I stop doing that.