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Three Weeks: Day 1
Apr. 25th, 2011 05:36 pmThis one is easy enough even for the braindead, which is me right now. So!
Why did you join Dreamwidth?
Oh, let me count the ways. See, I'd already jumped ship to Insanejournal due to LJ's increasingly queer-unfriendly moves and the alarming ham handedness of them. But frankly I'd been eying the door since 6A sailed into sight and I espied the Jolly Roger. I'd actually been mildly hopeful for a little while, when SUP showed up, but that went down the drain fast. And IJ was a nice place, but I could already see that it was not in the best situation to absorb a serious exodus or expand smoothly. So I was in search of a home anyway, and deeply fed up with the BS I was finding in places like Wordpress development. So when word went out that DW was going forward after all, I jumped on it and did the mailing list and volunteered to sit on wet paint for closed beta and, um, kind of went a little bit nuts with the site schemes and journal layouts. ^_^; I do this every so often. It was a friendly, lively sort of place, and wonderfully low pressure, which was very important to me given the huge variability in my spoon drawer.
And, as things grew and got up and running, I kept finding cool people. New cool people, and some old cool people, and it was a really nice virtual place to be. Not without the occasional kerfuffle or stumbling block, but that's life. And I really like it, here.
Why did you join Dreamwidth?
Oh, let me count the ways. See, I'd already jumped ship to Insanejournal due to LJ's increasingly queer-unfriendly moves and the alarming ham handedness of them. But frankly I'd been eying the door since 6A sailed into sight and I espied the Jolly Roger. I'd actually been mildly hopeful for a little while, when SUP showed up, but that went down the drain fast. And IJ was a nice place, but I could already see that it was not in the best situation to absorb a serious exodus or expand smoothly. So I was in search of a home anyway, and deeply fed up with the BS I was finding in places like Wordpress development. So when word went out that DW was going forward after all, I jumped on it and did the mailing list and volunteered to sit on wet paint for closed beta and, um, kind of went a little bit nuts with the site schemes and journal layouts. ^_^; I do this every so often. It was a friendly, lively sort of place, and wonderfully low pressure, which was very important to me given the huge variability in my spoon drawer.
And, as things grew and got up and running, I kept finding cool people. New cool people, and some old cool people, and it was a really nice virtual place to be. Not without the occasional kerfuffle or stumbling block, but that's life. And I really like it, here.
