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I signed up to DW during closed beta. I'd been peripherally involved in DW during its earliest days. DW first appeared as a possibility in ![[staff profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
denise's entries on LJ, something she referred to very teasingly, promising nothing. "Somehow" everyone still knew what was up. I became very excited.
I'd loved LJ, but it'd changed a great deal. The encroaching ads, corporate overlords whose ethos didn't match the site as I knew it, its waning activity... I had become resentful of it for sucking yet still being my only desired home. I wanted somewhere new but still like LJ: the same site, but improved, going in a direction that appealed to me and my friends, and young and vigorous. And now Denise appeared with this Idea andmark on board complementing her skills promising just these things. I'd respected her for as long as I knew her, and she has an unmatched skill at leading people and a thorough understanding of LJ. Mark knew the LJ code base exceedingly well, having worked there.
So I joined #dreamwidth IRC channel, I joined the mailing list, got myself a dreamhack test server, and counted down to the site's launch. I wanted to be involved in this cool new thing from the very beginning and looked for some purpose. That bit... didn't go so well. Work and college took a lot of my time and energy. Insecurity and shyness held me the rest of the way back from doing the little things within my abilities. When DW entered closed beta, it did so without me, and I watched tearily as other people, useful people, sprung onto the site and did useful things.
Believe tis obvious I consider this a collection of failures on /my/ part, but at the time it squashed my enthusiasm for DW. My userid is 371 - it didn't exactly take long to get my own account; it just wasn't what I'd anticipated so hungrily. I've certainly settled in since and I'm not going anywhere. But I'm more reserved in my liking for the site than I'd like to be.
Actually, my biggest mark on DW is from something I did years ago. I created the Negatives s2 style in 2005 for a contest.fu asked if she and aveleh could use it as a system layout, and after significant modification it became DW's first style! (OMG! :D) So if ever you're curious about/grimacing at the black and white oddly aligned style many old journals sport, hi! Blame me :D
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denise's entries on LJ, something she referred to very teasingly, promising nothing. "Somehow" everyone still knew what was up. I became very excited. I'd loved LJ, but it'd changed a great deal. The encroaching ads, corporate overlords whose ethos didn't match the site as I knew it, its waning activity... I had become resentful of it for sucking yet still being my only desired home. I wanted somewhere new but still like LJ: the same site, but improved, going in a direction that appealed to me and my friends, and young and vigorous. And now Denise appeared with this Idea and
mark on board complementing her skills promising just these things. I'd respected her for as long as I knew her, and she has an unmatched skill at leading people and a thorough understanding of LJ. Mark knew the LJ code base exceedingly well, having worked there. So I joined #dreamwidth IRC channel, I joined the mailing list, got myself a dreamhack test server, and counted down to the site's launch. I wanted to be involved in this cool new thing from the very beginning and looked for some purpose. That bit... didn't go so well. Work and college took a lot of my time and energy. Insecurity and shyness held me the rest of the way back from doing the little things within my abilities. When DW entered closed beta, it did so without me, and I watched tearily as other people, useful people, sprung onto the site and did useful things.
Believe tis obvious I consider this a collection of failures on /my/ part, but at the time it squashed my enthusiasm for DW. My userid is 371 - it didn't exactly take long to get my own account; it just wasn't what I'd anticipated so hungrily. I've certainly settled in since and I'm not going anywhere. But I'm more reserved in my liking for the site than I'd like to be.
Actually, my biggest mark on DW is from something I did years ago. I created the Negatives s2 style in 2005 for a contest.
fu asked if she and aveleh could use it as a system layout, and after significant modification it became DW's first style! (OMG! :D) So if ever you're curious about/grimacing at the black and white oddly aligned style many old journals sport, hi! Blame me :D(Questions/meme index)
