So this is DW

[jaebility]

I have three major complaints about DW so far: too few userpics (even with a paid account) and too few crossposting accounts thingers, and butt-ugly journal themes so far. The userpic limitations annoy me; I'm used ot having over 200 userpics at IJ. How am I going to whittle those down to a measly 75 (assuming I buy an account here)? My interests in the form of 100x100 icons are enormous! I need dozens of Phoenix Wright icons, oodles of Yuffie icons, tons of Digimon icons.

LAME, you guys, LAME.

I wish IJ wasn't such a wasteland. My FL over there is primarily feeds; everyone seems to have gone back to LJ or dropped blogging altogether.

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[jaebility]

1) Since I'm not a paid user, I only get one. I'm griping about that because it seems that the major perk of DW is being to crosspost to multiple journals. Also I like to gripe.

2) I think that there'll definitely be more choices in the future, it's just that the starting ones are so icky. The other journal sites have far better default journal designs.

3) My precious, precious icons! Icons can't take up too much server space, can they? Even JF gives you 10 icons to start with.

I'm planning on sticking around; these were just my first impressions of DW.

[baggyeyes]

Well, until April 30th, you can 'upgrade' into a paid account:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/misc/beta

This is because they are in Beta, and need to test all kinds of things, including the journal importer, (which imports your icons as well as entries) and the cross-posting utility.

All accounts expire roughly by May 1st, so that people who want to pay for an account, can simply renew, and those that want to stay with a free account, can. You can stop by the wiki for official communities to request extra features like more icon space, or go to the IRC: irc://irc.dwscoalition.org/dw

http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Dreamwidth_Communities

http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Community_List

http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Fandom_Communities