Why DW Rocks
Apr. 7th, 2011 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
next_to_normalThis was originally a comment on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
goldenusagi's post, but I'd been thinking of doing a post anyway, given the hoopla over the DDoS attack and the frantic switching/crossposting, lol.
1. If anyone is interested in opening a DW account, I have three invite codes:
78P6HWPR57F6RAAALXGX Use it!
ZGJWP7W8ABAH3AAAMSNL Use it!
DWJQEREBQYTMZAAAND9F Used!
2. For those of you who have recently switched or started cross-posting, if you're going to be posting identical content in both places, I may take you off my LJ flist and just read you on DW. Just so's you know. :)
3. If you need convincing as to why DW is awesome, the things I like about DW are mostly ease-of-use things. I love being able to upload multiple icons at once, for instance, and being able to edit tags on my posts without having to open the entry. I also like having the ability to expand cut text so I can read it right on my reading page instead of opening the post in a separate tab (and then you can close it again when you're done, so you don't have a whole monster post to scroll through on your reading page). I like that there's a "top of page" link at the bottom of your reading page, so you don't have to scroll all the way back up. And if you use Google Analytics, I really appreciate that there's an option to exclude your own traffic when counting hits, because having yourself included really mucks up the stats. :)
There are some fun community-building features, like Latest Things and the search features, that help you find other users with common interests, particularly since DW is still smaller than LJ. And just because it's fun: DW's Emotional Weather.
I do find it to be less glitchy, in general, but whatever awesome coding features they have are beyond my understanding, lol. They have said that a lot of what they've done are "things that, if we do them right, you won't ever see," but it will allow them to run more smoothly and implement new features in the future. I can say this - I have never, ever gotten spam comments on my DW, which is not the case with LJ.
Also, just overall, I prefer the development culture over here - the maintainers of DW seem much more accessible and much more interested in soliciting feedback than anyone at LJ has ever been.
goldenusagi's post, but I'd been thinking of doing a post anyway, given the hoopla over the DDoS attack and the frantic switching/crossposting, lol.1. If anyone is interested in opening a DW account, I have three invite codes:
78P6HWPR57F6RAAALXGX Use it!
ZGJWP7W8ABAH3AAAMSNL Use it!
2. For those of you who have recently switched or started cross-posting, if you're going to be posting identical content in both places, I may take you off my LJ flist and just read you on DW. Just so's you know. :)
3. If you need convincing as to why DW is awesome, the things I like about DW are mostly ease-of-use things. I love being able to upload multiple icons at once, for instance, and being able to edit tags on my posts without having to open the entry. I also like having the ability to expand cut text so I can read it right on my reading page instead of opening the post in a separate tab (and then you can close it again when you're done, so you don't have a whole monster post to scroll through on your reading page). I like that there's a "top of page" link at the bottom of your reading page, so you don't have to scroll all the way back up. And if you use Google Analytics, I really appreciate that there's an option to exclude your own traffic when counting hits, because having yourself included really mucks up the stats. :)
There are some fun community-building features, like Latest Things and the search features, that help you find other users with common interests, particularly since DW is still smaller than LJ. And just because it's fun: DW's Emotional Weather.
I do find it to be less glitchy, in general, but whatever awesome coding features they have are beyond my understanding, lol. They have said that a lot of what they've done are "things that, if we do them right, you won't ever see," but it will allow them to run more smoothly and implement new features in the future. I can say this - I have never, ever gotten spam comments on my DW, which is not the case with LJ.
Also, just overall, I prefer the development culture over here - the maintainers of DW seem much more accessible and much more interested in soliciting feedback than anyone at LJ has ever been.
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