I can't remember if I found it by checking Dreamwidth's referer logs or through Icerocket (http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&lng=&q=dreamwidth&x=0&y=0), which is like Google for blogs -- I keep a tab open with an Icerocket search for "Dreamwidth" all the time, so I can see what kind of things people are bringing up, what questions they have, what they're saying about the project, what they're confused about or getting wrong, etc. (That's how i know what points i need to address in mailing list posts or in posts to the site somewhere.)
I hear what you're saying about the happiness thing. I've said for a while that my goal is not to change the world -- I mean, if that happens, obviously, bonus! But it's not what I consider my real goal, which is: Leave everything I encounter a little better than it was when I found it. I've been living my life by that tenet for a really long time, and some of the most worthwhile moments I've had, some of the things I will be able to point back at and say "this, this is what I lived for", arise out of that.
And in a real way, DW is part of that! I just -- there's so much that online community can do to help people, from the big world-changing sweeping things to the small, quiet stories of change and growth that everyone carries with them, and that's what I want to do with DW. I want to make community. I want to do it right. I want to learn from all the mistakes I made on LJ, that LJ made without me, and do it over again and get it right this time. (Or at least get it better. Nothing is ever perfect; everything can be an improvement over what you did last time, though.)
And yeah. This post, reading this post, helped pick me up at a time I needed the boost. So thank you for that. :) I'm so glad to have met you through this, you have no idea!
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Date: 2009-04-10 12:12 pm (UTC)I hear what you're saying about the happiness thing. I've said for a while that my goal is not to change the world -- I mean, if that happens, obviously, bonus! But it's not what I consider my real goal, which is: Leave everything I encounter a little better than it was when I found it. I've been living my life by that tenet for a really long time, and some of the most worthwhile moments I've had, some of the things I will be able to point back at and say "this, this is what I lived for", arise out of that.
And in a real way, DW is part of that! I just -- there's so much that online community can do to help people, from the big world-changing sweeping things to the small, quiet stories of change and growth that everyone carries with them, and that's what I want to do with DW. I want to make community. I want to do it right. I want to learn from all the mistakes I made on LJ, that LJ made without me, and do it over again and get it right this time. (Or at least get it better. Nothing is ever perfect; everything can be an improvement over what you did last time, though.)
And yeah. This post, reading this post, helped pick me up at a time I needed the boost. So thank you for that. :) I'm so glad to have met you through this, you have no idea!