OH! Oh! oh! oh!

[melannen]

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!)

Comments

[notjo [journalfen.net]]

Oh shit, did those go on sale today? *woe*

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

Nope, open beta starts April 30 as of current plans (http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2173.html), which is when both seed (permanent) acconuts and normal paid accounts will go on sale.

But they're stepping up with letting people in to closed beta, as the site gets closer to ready, and I totally have connections, so I got a closed beta invite. If you go over to DW, get an OpenID account which are already open to all, and start getting involved (in whatever way you can), there's a fairly good chance you'll get a closed beta invite.

*cough* especially if they give me closed-beta invite codes *cough*

[notjo [journalfen.net]]

Ooooo... *ponders*

Thank you for the info!

[sepiamagpie [journalfen.net]]

I like how your icon is nearly the exact same, but significantly different on the dreamwidth account.

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

Yes, it was really nice of Oni Press to re-use the same art with new inks and colors in the latest issue of Tek Jansen, just in time for me to put them on my DW account. :D

[kadath [journalfen.net]]

I'm planning to wait for open beta.

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

That's probably not a bad idea - there are still some things (like styles and site docs) that are clearly not ready for prime time yet.

(Still works better than LJ or JF though!)

[kadath [journalfen.net]]

I was going to go try the OpenId stuff by commenting on your account, but DW appears to be down right now.

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

Huh. Yeah, it's working for me right now, but ve-ery slo-wly. I'll keep an eye on the twitter account and see what comes up. (Definitely still the beta site!)

[kadath [journalfen.net]]

Okay, OpenID commenting is fucking onerous, forget it.

*wanders off*

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

Really?

You care enough to tell me why? I can pass it on to people; they are trying *very hard* to make everything dead-easy...

[kadath [journalfen.net]]

Partly it's that everything is taking forever to load. It's in beta, no big.

But mostly it's that I went and did the whole "yes give this site my dataz" thing, and DW claims I'm logged in, yet the comment form at your account is still telling me I need to set and validate an email address, which...no. That is not the point of OpenID. I don't want a DW "OpenID account." I just want to be able to leave comments.

Maybe that's just your settings, in which case *pthththb*.

Also DW is down again for me.

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

Yeah, I think that was my settings.

Which I didn't realize I had set that way by default, so I'm going to put that on my list of things to complain about. :D

You can try again (well, you might want to wait a bit, because the site seems to still be having robustness issues!) and it ought to work as-is.

[kadath [journalfen.net]]

Okay, I just successfully commented.

It was a very deep and incisive comment if I may say so myself.

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

It was! I am impressed by your great wit.

Also I have now complained about openID and security settings to somebody vaguely offical.