Dreamwidth

Dreamwidth
Dreamwidth
Dreamwidth_logo
© Dreamwidth Studios, LLC
URL www.dreamwidth.org
Slogan Open Source. Open expression. Open operations.
Commercial? Yes
Type of site Blog/Social Network
Available language(s) English
Owner Denise Paolucci and Mark Smith

Dreamwidth is an online journal service based on the LiveJournal code. It is a code fork of the original service, set up by ex-LiveJournal staff[1] Denise Paolucci and Mark Smith, born out of a desire for a new community based on open access, transparency, freedom and respect.[2]

Dreamwidth was announced on 11 June 2008[3] and went into open beta on 30 April 2009.[4]

Contents

Features

For the most part, features are similar to those of LiveJournal: users have journals, where they may post entries, each of which has a webpage of its own, and on which other users may comment. Dreamwidth also provides shared or group journals called "communities".[5]

Areas in which Dreamwidth differs significantly from Livejournal include the following:

Accounts

Free accounts may only be created with an invite code, and have limited features. Paid accounts exist on two levels, "Paid" and "Premium Paid", and have additional features.[6] At the time of the open beta launch, a limited number of Seed Accounts were also available.

User relationships

In response to criticisms of LiveJournal's friending system, Dreamwidth has split user relationships into two parts: subscriptions and access control. Users may subscribe to other users' journals, or grant access for other users to read locked entries, as separate actions. Dreamwidth's terminology reflects this split: for instance the "friends page" has been renamed as "reading page", and "custom friends groups" has been split into "access filters" and "reading filters".

Interoperability

Dreamwidth provides greater interoperability with other Livejournal-based sites, including the ability to import a journal from another site, crosspost to multiple sites, and greater functionality for users who log in via OpenID.

Search

In addition to the search facilities brought over from LiveJournal, paid account users can search their journal.[7] This was introduced on 24 July 2009.[8]

Missing features

The following features, available on LiveJournal, are not available on Dreamwidth:[9]

  • picture hosting
  • voice posting
  • S1 style system
  • to-do lists
  • TxtLJ
  • pingbacks
  • nudge
  • Last.fm music detection
  • Singles
  • Commenting using Facebook and Twitter accounts

Development

Dreamwidth is based upon the free and open source[10] server software that was designed to run LiveJournal. It is written primarily in Perl. The majority of the Dreamwidth code is available under the GPL for other sites to use.[11]

Unlike many other social networking sites using the LiveJournal codebase, such as InsaneJournal and DeadJournal, Dreamwidth is a code fork, removing unwanted features (such as advertising) and adding new ones as described above. Founders of the site rejected the advertising model as intrusive. Instead, they implemented a payment system, where users can purchase add-on or premium features.[12]

A 2009 OSCON presentation saw Dreamwidth identified as highly unusual among open source projects, for the number of women on its development team. About 75% of its developers are female,[13][14] compared with around 1.5% in the field as a whole.[15] Paolucci and Smith also spoke at linux.conf.au 2010 about Dreamwidth's development model,[16] and have been invited to speak at Web 2.0 Expo[17] and OSCON,[18] about their techniques.

Dreamwidth was accepted as a GSoC mentoring organization for the summer of 2010.[19] They were allotted seven students, who worked on a variety of projects.[20]

Staff

Athena, also known as Afuna or fu was introduced as the site's first paid employee on April 7, 2010.[21] On September 7, 2010, Mark Smith announced that he had stepped back from Dreamwidth's front line[22] and moved to work for StumbleUpon.[23] He is still an owner of Dreamwidth along with Denise, however.[24]

Influence

Following the positive reactions to Dreamwidth's diversity statement and model of inclusiveness, various other projects have followed suit, including Python's diversity list[25] and Dreamfish.[26]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dreamwidth: Our People
  2. ^ Dreamwidth Guiding Principles
  3. ^ synecdochic: Announcing Dreamwidth Studios. Coming Summer 2008.
  4. ^ "Welcome to Dreamwidth Studios!". dw-news.dreamwidth.org. http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/5035.html. 
  5. ^ "How to Attract More People to Your Open Source Project". itworld.com. September 23, 2008. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/78643/how-attract-more-people-your-open-source-project. Retrieved September 22, 2011. 
  6. ^ FAQ: What are paid accounts?
  7. ^ Search Dreamwidth
  8. ^ mid-week surprise feature rollout
  9. ^ If you're coming from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth: What's Missing?
  10. ^ LiveJournal Code
  11. ^ Dreamwidth repositories
  12. ^ Renee Montagne, Laura Sydell, et al. "Social Networks: They're Popular, But Will They Pay?". NPR – Morning Edition. June 23, 2009. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
  13. ^ Krill, Paul. "Microsoft maintains openness push". InfoWorld. July 23, 2009. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
  14. ^ Kirrily Robert: Standing out in the crowd
  15. ^ FLOSSpols
  16. ^ "Build Your Own Contributors, One Part At A Time". lca2010.org. http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/view_talk/50329?day=wednesday. 
  17. ^ Build Your Own Contributors (One Part at a Time), at web2expo.com
  18. ^ Build Your Own Contributors (One Part at a Time), at oscon.com
  19. ^ Welcome, Google Summer of Code students!
  20. ^ GSoC Results
  21. ^ Update, April 5, 2010
  22. ^ The State of Mark: Dreamwidth
  23. ^ The State of Mark: StumbleUpon
  24. ^ Dreamwidth: Our People
  25. ^ DiversityInPython work in progress on wiki.python.org
  26. ^ Dreamfish humanifesto on dreamfish.com

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