Open Beta speculations!

[foxfirefey]

Open Beta is...dundundun...tomorrow!

Here is your post to speculate on what's going to happen. Do you think seed accounts are going to sell fast or slow? What kind of drama is going to erupt when the flood gates are open? Are you expecting to drag people over now that the gates are open more, or are people you know banging to get in?

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Re: Wild speculation!

[foxfirefey]

Oh man I have seeeeeen DW drama already, let me tell you.

There's the elitism crew: since DW with its invite codes is exclusive, and thus like those mean cool kids in school, and in groups are inherently suspect, they despise the thought of coming here.

There's the people upset with denise/LJ Abuse and thus dislike Dreamwidth, since she's one of the owners.

There's the people who have problems with legomymalfoy just being listed on the Volunteers in Waiting page on the wiki--I had to disable open editing there because they kept vandalizing it.

There are people who hate DW because people are going to it and they don't want to, and feel like they'll be forced to follow.

There's the disabling comments on crossposts fluffle.

There was the community import wailing.

There's a lot of people who assume DW is a fandom project by fans, for fans who then proceed to criticize it on merits that do not match what they believe a fandom project should have.

I think there's going to be drama about the username landgrab.

Re: Wild speculation!

[telesilla]

Like I was saying to Hels, I think the wank will get uglier for a while, as more people are going to be squeeing over DW on LJ.

I managed to miss the bit about legomymalfoy but I can't say I'm surprised. People on the internets can really hold grudges.

Re: Wild speculation!

[helens78]

Oh, oh, I've seen it and heard of it -- I meant that it isn't showing up in my primary reading areas, thank heavens. I've dodged the spooge bullet for this and I am glad, glad, glad!

I think there's going to be drama about the username landgrab.

Now this I hadn't thought about, but OH YEAH. That's going to cause some issues right there.

Re: Wild speculation!

[orexisbella.livejournal.com]

Just curious - I think I missed the community import wailing. Is it not going to be possible to import a community? *confused*

Re: Wild speculation!

[foxfirefey]

There are several social and technological barriers to the import of communities, basically:

* It's harder to justify the fair use of importing posts from a community versus things like comments. There are people out there who are upset that they can't import communities, but there are also a lot of people out there who would be upset if we did, as well.
* We currently import things as OpenID users, so people can still have control over their content. But, OpenID users cannot make posts, so we can't post as them to a community without backend changes. And if we import posts and tag them as OpenID, then there'd be a lot of confusion from OpenID users who would think that would mean they could post.

There are proposals and suggestions around this, but chances are wholesale importing of a community (short of single poster communities, perhaps) isn't going to happen.

Re: Wild speculation!

[beck_liz]

I saw at least one person who thought the $200 seed account was the only paid option - so there's a lot of misinformation out there, no matter how good people have been about spreading the word, and therefore, a lot of wank about it. On top of the wank that isn't misinformation-based.

Re: Wild speculation!

[matgb]

And one of my FL was annoyed that she kept missing the invite codes due to her online time being weird.

As soon as someone told her she could pay directly, she jumped over here straight away. I always forget that "well informed" has so many different levels within the sub set.