WTF is this now?

[rubyblues]

So, I haven't checked my LJ in a week, and I come back and EVERYONE is talking about their DW all of a sudden. And there's free signup now so like, yeah. Here I am. This looks like LJ? Is there anything new shiny and spiffy about this site? So far is looks fairly snazzy I like the clean layout and what not. I'm wondering if this account will end up like my insane journal and that other journal I can't even remember the name of...

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[ilyena_sylph]

Some of my favorite things about Dreamwidth:

A) The site owners think ads are stupid and doomed to fail, so I'm not scared of them showing up.
B) Last year when a religious group threw horrid amounts of pressure on the online payment processors DW was using and the processors demanded that DW censor content, the owners refused. There were three rounds of this before they finally found a processor that was willing to take that they were not going to censor. It was damned hard work for them, it caused a lot of hassle, but they stood their ground to protect their account holders freedom of expression.
C) I love how the menus are organized.
D) In the options for managing accounts there is the ability to turn on 'Explicit Comment Hierarchy' so that every comment in a thread is numbered like an outline.
E) the expandable cut-tag, that even works when you're answering polls.
F) persistent style=mine.
G) in the header bar, immediate one-click options for 'style=mine', 'format=light', and 'original' for if you want to see how something looks on the account holder's own page.
H) -- wow, okay, I think I need to stop!

Hi, btw.