Dreamwith optimism or cynicism?

A self-described Dreamwidth cynic speaks out.

I don't know if I'd classify myself as an optimist or a pessimist (lol, if anything, I'd like to be a Dreamwidth realist) on DW, but the thing is, LJ is a vast entity, and many parts of it are irrelevant to my usage. Even if DW fails to become larger than IJ or GJ at their peak, I suspect that for people in Western media fandom, DW will take off more than GJ or IJ in a relative sense. Entirely unclear on people in anime fandom or book scifi/fantasy fandom.

Anyhow, my reasons for interest in DW are mainly technical, and on both technical and non-technical issues, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

people actually posting on my rlist

dw_community_promo now exists.

Two people on my rlist have posted their thoughts on DW.

manticore here: The first thing... It's just untenable. This is the "I want everyone except for 'these people' to read my journal. The problem is the set of "DW users" can be literally ANYONE. Who knows? Maybe HR personnel slack at work and are logged into DW also. It just doesn't make sense to say "everyone" can read my journal because the set of everyone is everyone, unless DW employs a blacklist and a ninja squad who sneak into the offices and homes of those on the blacklist and install software which makes DW invisible to them. I suggested to manticore that she should make a comm and have open membership, then allow anyone to join the comm. That way she wouldn't need to tediously approve everyone. I don't really think it works to make DW like one giant message board, because inevitably people will use the feature in different ways, and a message board is much more closely moderated than a LJ fork site is.

morineko has some thoughts on Design Personas and the [this is good] feature. I totally agree with morineko's thoughts on the [this is good] feature.

The [this is good] feature, which works like the "like" on Tumblr, is a low pressure way of giving feedback. As she says "[this is good] was used to rec files without having to actually interact with the user who uploaded it. "

I'm also glad to hear that there is some thought given to CMS features on DW. This will make the software more useful for "people who make things."