From flapping my arms in excitement, I nearly achieved liftoff.

[azurelunatic]

dreamwidth.org

Dreamwidth Studios. LJ code fork. Run by some of the most reliable people to keep LJ ticking. Coming soon.

ZOMG.

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[raranax.livejournal.com]

Try holding your arms out and running or spinning.

[tango.livejournal.com]

Iiiiiiinteresting

[azurelunatic]

#dw

[cryo.livejournal.com]

how does this differ from any of the other places that are running the lj server code (and are pretty much lifeless) like blurty, greatestjournal, ujournal, and the ever favorite, deadjournal ( which is fairly active)?

I've read the page, and while it sounds wonderful, most things do until you get into the heart of the monsterous soul-eating sourcecode and realize that the environment to run it, is ancient... and that you end up getting sucked into a vortex of maintaining and trying to retain a userbase that eventually hates you anyway.

I look forward to hating them with all of my 16 year old teen angst I can this summer! Speaking of, I need to find some more and squeeze the angst from them into jars so I don't run out.

[azurelunatic]

The average LJ clone doesn't have some of the people who wrote the code in the first place on board, nor are they particularly interested in innovating new code, fixing the stuff that's broken but too ingrained in the site to change once you've got users in there, or making sure it's scalable to the number of users that a popular journal site gets when it establishes itself as a viable alternative.

The fact that the organizing force tends to collect fiercely loyal minions doesn't hurt either.

[sraun]

Hmmm - I've signed up for their help and announce lists, I'll see if I can provide some. I'm definitely interested in an account when they go whatever degree of live!