Three weeks for Dreamwidth

[meridian_rose]

As I wrote in a recent post about why I love journals over other social media sites, I've been at Dreamwidth since April 2011. I joined, as many others did, because Livejournal was having so many service issues, mostly due to DDOS attacks. I liked the idea of having a back-up journal.

At first I kept the two separate, very different looking themes, for example (I once likened it to a summer house compared to my main residence) and imported my LJ regularly to my DW.

As time went on I began posting primarily to DW and cross-posting to LJ, regularly importing comments from LJ.

Now I try to keep a similar look to both journals. I post almost exclusively to DW with the crosspost feature enabled. I read my DW circle feed but I rely on notifications for LJ rather than use my friends' feed. There are communities I follow that maintain a presence at both sites, and communities that exist solely on DW, and I love them all.

I'm glad DW exists. I never expected to feel at home here the way I did at LJ, but the community spirit, the amazing Support team, and the way users are listened to has made it possible. While LJ has declined somewhat over the past few years, DW has stabilised in some areas and grown in others. So this is a brief contribution to three_weeks_for_dw / the three weeks for Dreamwidth annual celebration, saying thank you to everyone who makes DW possible, and who makes it a success.

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[cmcmck]

There was a point at which I simply couldn't use LJ at all and I shipped over onto DW to save my writing.

I've been based here and x posting for some years now.

[silk_dragon_zen]

I didn't even know about this — Three Weeks for Dreamwidth — but I'm glad it's happening. If I remember after I recover from my current major flareup of fibromyalgia, I'll write a similar post from the point of view of a new user of both DW and LJ.