Comments on: Why Blogspot When I Have Livejournal and Dreamwidth, etc?

By: Adlina

Adlina — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:04:31 +0000

It’s fine. I have lots of free time on my hands. Well, it kind of depends on what you’re using the account for. DW is relatively new, so the community is not as big as LJ. They’re both technically the same, and I love them both to pieces.

Howerver… if you don’t like to have advertisements ruining your journal, I’d recommend Dreamwidth. By defauly, LJ puts you on plus accounts. Plus accounts are supported by ads on various pages (paid users won’t see them though) and the ads can be seen by you and all your visiors. If you downgrade to free account, you won’t see the ads on your page and you’ll see ads on journals using plus account. Non-LJ visitors to your journal, however, would still see advertisements on your journal.

By: Adlina

Adlina — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:53:19 +0000

No problem.
Oh, I’m on paid accounts on both LJ and DW. I’m a sucker for icons

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:52:39 +0000

so sorry, it’s me again! =p
Questions keep popping up out of no where. haha. LJ and DW, which one would you prefer more/have higher ratings?

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:48:11 +0000

Oh, that’s good. I wouldn’t want my drafts disappeared halfway if anything happens to my laptop while I type. haha. Thanks for your offer, I will let you know when I am ready to start a new blog.

oh another question, just wondering, are you using the paid account or the free one?

Thanks.

By: Adlina

Adlina — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:42:39 +0000

Yes, it does
I have 11 DW invite codes to give away. Let me know if you’re interested.

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:26:05 +0000

by the way, Adlina, does dreamwidth autosave your post while you are typing?

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:46:34 +0000

oh…now i see.. thanks for your useful info! and yea, maybe you should make a full writeup of journal services you’ve tried! =D

By: Adlina

Adlina — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:36:01 +0000

Xanga has turned from a fairly decent platform to a rather vulgar place. It’s hard to customise, and I’m not fond of its backend. The communities are more like cliques, so yeah. Not exactly my cup of tea. It’s better to choose WordPress.com or Blogetery.com (the latter also offers wordpress-esque blog hosting). You can still filter the privacy of your posts.

Livejournal also started out as invite only place. Since DW has just started out, it’s a fairly good idea to avoid username squatting (ppl who don’t update their journals) and keep the site for serious bloggers.

Full features on LJ only meant not having any advertisements, larger number of icons and some other minor things (like expanding long threads of conversation). It’s almost the same with Dreamwidth. Unless, of course, you’re looking to make voice-posts on a regular basis, and you wish to have a large image galleries on LJ, then only paid features become a temptation.

I may need to make a full writeup of journal services I’ve tried. Feel free to ask me anything about blogs and I’ll be glad to help.

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:20:45 +0000

But then you need an invite code to register for dreamwidth isnt it? and only paid accounts can have all the full features/settings…:(
How about xanga? just wondering if you’ve tried it and might have some reviews on it?