cerealjoe | Now I'm at the party too (Reply)

Now I have a Dreamwidth account thanks to the lovely

petiii. Will I be moving there? I'm not quite sure yet.

I highly admire what they're trying to do and their pledge saying that there will never be ads, that's all very brilliant... for the moment. To be honest, I'm happy with LiveJournal. I've learned in the past couple of months that when you're part of something that is huge and way above you, you just make the best of your little corner and don't give a shit about what's going on at the top. Sure, CS has many problems up in the higher spheres but I'm just trying to make the best of our little Helsinki group. Sure, LJ has more than enough problems at the top but I really don't care. I pay not to have ads and I believe that LJ has been reliable enough and has brought me way more than enough happiness for my $25 per year. The people who visit my journal don't see ads and most of them will never venture outside either their friends-list or my journal page and therefore will not see the ads on LJ.

I quite like how DreamWidth added the possibility to import my LJ entries here, very nice. I did not import my LJ friends here because I find that just silly. If you want to add me here, you're very welcome to do so :)

So end of story: I'm stay with LJ and DW both, there's cross-posting and all that jazz. I can't promise that DW will get all my LJ entries because I'll certainly forget and I host my pictures on LJ's scrapbook, it's convenient for me to post from there. I know I have where-is-gali.net and I could host all my pictures there but I only keep the high resolution ones there.

The end of the end of story: For the moment, my $25 will go to LJ because they offer me more for that money than DW. I know that DW needs all the money they can get to keep the site alive but first they must prove to me that their business plan is viable, if I find the full details in the FAQ, maybe then I'll consider getting a paid account there too.