Dreamwidth - anyone else thinking about jumping ship?

[strangetomato]

I've been checking out Dreamwidth a little lately, and I'm really considering moving over there once it opens up to the public (April 30). Some major pluses are the "reading page" instead of the "friends" list, which has always been reminiscent of grade five girl gangs at best (even just the new name is far better, but it also separates "friends only" access and the things you want to follow into two distinct things- THANK YOU!) and this amazing diversity statement. It seems to take everything that's good about livejournal and fix everything that sucks. As it looks right now, I'll be switching.

Is anyone else considering this?

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[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

I'm already over there for the closed beta and will be paying when open beta starts; I've known one half of the ownership (not well, but mutually by name and common interests, etc.) since before either one of us had a Livejournal, and my girlfriend knows her quite well since she used to be an abuse team volunteer and D used to run it as part of her LJ job, plus I know enough about the other half (his wife was on my flist for a while) that I trust them to do a good job with it.

Naturally, there are still things I'm interested in on LJ, so I'll keep reading and commenting and so on here, but when DW's tool for including offsite journals as part of the reading list is finished I'll be using that instead of my LJ flist.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Well, I know just about nobody over there, but I still want to move. Maybe I'm just done with livejournal. I've never liked the way the flist worked.

So you'll be able to add livejournal posts to your reading page over there? If that's true, I really have no need to stay.

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

Eventually. The feature isn't ready yet. (There are RSS feeds same as LJ, but those are pretty awful. DW eventually will have fully functional cross-site reading capability (including letting you read locked posts that you ought to be able to read).

You can also import your journal, BTW, but it's a wholesale import. You can go back and delete things you don't want to keep one by one after the import, though, or set them private, or set everything private and make them public one by one, etc. And all your comments will be preserved using OpenID, so awesome. I'm thinking about importing ALL of my old journals, but some of them private.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That's a very nice feature. I'd be interested in doing that, but I wouldn't keep everything.

I still have this paid account for a while anyway, so I have time to play around with it.