i have now started up a dreamwidth account.

after a very kind lj user offered to share their extra invite codes, i figured it wouldn't hurt to ask (even tho i'm a complete stranger) and they generously sent it to me straight away. thanks temporal_witch :)

i'll be messing about with it in the next couple of days and hopefully get a feel for things. then i'll decide how (and if) i'm going to actually proceed with it.

first awesome thing about dreamwidth: they have a "light style" link at the top of the page! i type ?format=light about a million and twelve times a day in livejournal, and a button like that would be crazy helpful!

first lame thing about dreamwidth: their layout themes suck ass. i'm sure if i got a paid account i would be able to do more, but i'm obviously not going to do that. so at the moment it's pretty ugly looking.

i'm sure i'll never become very proficient with it, especially considering how i'm still pretty crap at using livejournal half the time (even after four years), but i feel like there are A LOT of compelling reasons to support dreamwidth instead of livejournal.