And WHO has a Dreamwidth account?

Oh, that's right!

melannen has a a Dreamwidth account! (eta to clarify: in the closed beta; DW opens for reals April 30.)

(And OMG, I have only had the account for, like, 24 hours, and I already feel a deep, deep resentment toward the idea of using a service where I have to do user-tag-links to other services manually. If JF was as cool as DW I could've just gone <user name=melannen site=dreamwidth.org> and it would've *automatically* made a tag like this one, melannen, which goes straight to my new DW account.)

Look! I have a Dreamwidth account! Go gaze upon it in all its haven't-quite-figured-out-the-style-system-yet still-obviously-in-beta glory! Dreamwidth is *so cool*, you guys. It makes sense. And it does stuff. And it functions properly. It's like, what if Livejournal were run by people who actually understood Livejournal, and the internet, and sustainable small business, and who had the time and resources to make work the way it should, both as software and as community.

...and they will be giving closed-beta accounts to a random selection of people who have open-id accounts there for the next month. So you should go get your open-id account. And go play. Open-ID accounts can do pretty much anything except post entries.

I got into the beta because I never shut up about how I'm such a special snowflake that I post solely on JF (*g*) and they wanted someone to test their JF-interoperability features. So if anyone has any suggestions about JF interoperability, you should pass it on.

(...and they all laughed when I said someday, being on JF would pay. Who's laughing now? Bwahahahahaha!)

( I am still trying to figure out who/if I should mention each of these things to, because they are all fairly small, but here they are for my own satisfaction )

If anybody else finds any issues trying to play with the site, they can comment here.

I was making a parallel list of "things that are awesome", but it got too long. :D

I do *adore* the new menus, though. I'm so used to badly organized sites that I automatically go to the logical place for an item, then go to the least-obvious without even looking because it's *never* in the logical place, -- and then I have to go back, because on DW, it *is*.

Also the inbox and the navigation bar are actually useful OMG! And the new user and cut and such tags! And, and, and!!!