Dreamwidth. WTF?

[penk]

So. There's this thing called LJ. It's a site that has a ton of journals on it, and people tend to use it a lot because all their friends are there, and it has an interesting way to 'lock' postings to specific readers. Many people are into it, despite it's numerous technical and aesthetic shortcomings.

"Why don't you use a blog site or something else?"

"Nah, all my friends are on LJ, I'll just use that."

But now there's Dreamwidth. Which is...another livejournal installation.

Because of LJ's braindead RSS mechanism, I cannot feed 'locked' posts out to an aggregator, so I generally read LJ for personal posts, and Google Reader for everything else.

Now I'll have to read LJ, Google Reader, AND Dreamwidth?

Folks who are getting Dreamwidth accounts. I'm not going to jump through hoops to read content over there. If you have an RSS feed of your journal there, let me know, I'll happily read it. If you start posting friends-locked posts over there, chances are I'll never see them - which may or may not matter to you. Just a heads up.

However, if you are going to make the jump, may I ask... why? There are tons of livejournal copies out there. It's opensource. And why LJ software, why not use blogger.com or typepad?

Comments

[scatmania.livejournal.com]

Don't know if you'd be interested, but you can proxy LJ, DW etc. posts (including "friends only" ones) through to your Google Reader or other aggregator by using Feed Proxy (http://lj.abnib.co.uk/).