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?

Comments

[showercapfrog.livejournal.com]

I signed up a few weeks ago for DreamWidth. I don't think I'll jump ship, but I had a slight premonition that people I like following might, and I didn't want to be stuck in the position of not being able to follow them for whatever reason.

I don't post much anyway, so it probably won't matter what I do. But I do already have an established group of 'friends' and things here, and I think it would be somewhat of a shame to leave all of that. I think I'll probably keep up with both, because I'm like that. I would rather that you didn't leave LJ, but I will probably follow you to Dreamwidth if you do go.
I've tried other journal communities in the past, but a lot of them ended up frustrating me so I left. Blogger, Diaryland, etc didn't have the same kind of ability to have a list of posts of people you want to follow so easily (this was a few years back - they may have changed), and insanejournal/greatestjournal were very similar to LJ anyway, and had far less people. I like this place for the huge number of people who are here.