Dreamwith optimism or cynicism?

[charmian]

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.

Comments

[mark]

I'm honestly glad to see someone posting some critique. Granted, it seems more on the personally-biased end of critical rather than the 'useful commentary Mark can actually do something with to make the site better' end, but oh well.

Thank you for sharing!

[charmian]

I think as a critique, it suffers from the fact that the person hasn't used the site, therefore it's not really focussing on specific problems with DW. (Though spare_change in the comments does make a specific criticism) IIRC, I think Yonmei left LJ over the whole breastfeeding icon controversy.

[morineko]

It seems almost anti-helpful. I admit to having my own cynicism about DW's success (ask charmian about it) but at least I'm trying to use the service to see if it works for me and to make it better. yonmei isn't even bothering to comment here with OpenID.

I'm a big fan of DW's OpenID implementation. I've used OpenID with my WordPress ID here, and on Blogspot, and they work equally as well. I'm wondering about the captcha or not policy on OpenID, though; here, is it just set individually by the journal? I admit to being very, very worried about spam.