Mad as a Hatter

stellar_dust pointed out a spiffy new journal site in progress. Made by former LJ people. I plan to sign up for the beta test which starts April 30.

Links:

Stellar_dust's post

Main Dreamwidth page

DW changes from LJ

Beta test announcement and info

dreamwidth (LJ community)

A lot of nice features, and I just love the idea of (theoretically, hopefully, etc.) better management.

Am now subscribed to half of their mailing lists, and even the way they handle that seems cool. For each list, I filled out a webform to get on and got a confirmation email. That gave me three different ways to confirm that I wanted to be on the list (and it wasn't just a case of some jerk adding my address without telling me). List archives are publicly available on the site (so you can see what you're getting into before you sign up), and I have the option to only get daily digests. Oh, and I can log in to the list's page on the site to change my listed name, address, and a whole host of options, some of which I never would have even thought of. I never realized mailing list maintenance could be so shiny and spiffy. I mean, heck, the available options and controls are better than what I've seen from MIT. (Yes, recently. Am still on one mailing list through there.)

stellar_dust mentioned that they are/were working on a way to allow cross-platform flists. Tricky when you're dealing with locked posts, but we'll see what they come up with. That'd be most important for me. No sense migrating to a new service if you guys don't come along, you know?

ETA: One of the (two) owners noticed our discussion of the above (thanks to the magic of referer logs - the things that tell site owners where people clicked from to get to their site) and responded. Just now. As in, less than an hour after said discussion. To tell me that she wants that feature as much as anyway, and they've got the general outline of how to do it. Won't be functional for the beta test, but will (fingers crossed) be up and ready when the site goes live. Color me very impressed.

ETA AGAIN! This post has more and better information.