Technical support, still crowdsourced both places. Dreamwidth's technical support is largely in the hands of direct volunteer management, with three volunteers overseeing a larger pool of technical support volunteers, while LiveJournal has a single employee in the same general role of oversight. (See: smaller staff at Dreamwidth.)
Style of technical support: no real changes there.
Writing style of documentation: no change.
I'm not sure whether it counts as a similarity or a difference now, but LiveJournal's FAQs are still a work in progress; Dreamwidth's are now more comprehensive but still need some blanks filled in, and updating here and there. I think it's a similarity, and that's changed.
LiveJournal has recently reached out into affiliate links as a possible revenue stream, in addition to advertising. LiveJournal now allows paid users to sign up with Google AdSense to place advertisements on their own journals. LiveJournal has rolled the OhNoTheyDidn't community into management by LiveJournal staff, by dint of negotiating with the community and hiring one of the existing maintainers on as LiveJournal staff; ONTD will be getting ads (or already has them; I'm not there very often). Dreamwidth has branched out into selling swag on Zazzle, including the hilarious Ridiculously Overpriced Fundraising Sticker. Both sites still sell paid accounts.
No change to account levels.
Due to Dreamwidth's unforeseen cash-flow problems caused by all credit card payments being completely not possible for a few months, the owners are considering another Seed account sale, but would prefer to raise money other ways.
LiveJournal's social norms around friending remain the same. Dreamwidth's social norms around reading and access are working themselves out, and seem to be doing so with a minimum of drama, though perhaps that's from self-selecting more low-drama users? Dunno.
Dreamwidth is far closer to live, and there are at least two websites (can't recall them off the top of my head) which are in fact running a clone of Dreamwidth's code rather than a clone of LiveJournal's. (!!)
Dreamwidth is still all-beta; LiveJournal has recently recruited some more beta testers, but still works with a live site and a beta site for testers.
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Technical capabilities, still pretty similar.
History, still pretty much the same.
Ownership, still the same.
Technical support, still crowdsourced both places. Dreamwidth's technical support is largely in the hands of direct volunteer management, with three volunteers overseeing a larger pool of technical support volunteers, while LiveJournal has a single employee in the same general role of oversight. (See: smaller staff at Dreamwidth.)
Style of technical support: no real changes there.
Writing style of documentation: no change.
I'm not sure whether it counts as a similarity or a difference now, but LiveJournal's FAQs are still a work in progress; Dreamwidth's are now more comprehensive but still need some blanks filled in, and updating here and there. I think it's a similarity, and that's changed.
LiveJournal has recently reached out into affiliate links as a possible revenue stream, in addition to advertising. LiveJournal now allows paid users to sign up with Google AdSense to place advertisements on their own journals. LiveJournal has rolled the OhNoTheyDidn't community into management by LiveJournal staff, by dint of negotiating with the community and hiring one of the existing maintainers on as LiveJournal staff; ONTD will be getting ads (or already has them; I'm not there very often). Dreamwidth has branched out into selling swag on Zazzle, including the hilarious Ridiculously Overpriced Fundraising Sticker. Both sites still sell paid accounts.
No change to account levels.
Due to Dreamwidth's unforeseen cash-flow problems caused by all credit card payments being completely not possible for a few months, the owners are considering another Seed account sale, but would prefer to raise money other ways.
LiveJournal's social norms around friending remain the same. Dreamwidth's social norms around reading and access are working themselves out, and seem to be doing so with a minimum of drama, though perhaps that's from self-selecting more low-drama users? Dunno.
Dreamwidth is far closer to live, and there are at least two websites (can't recall them off the top of my head) which are in fact running a clone of Dreamwidth's code rather than a clone of LiveJournal's. (!!)
Dreamwidth is still all-beta; LiveJournal has recently recruited some more beta testers, but still works with a live site and a beta site for testers.