On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:38 PM, [email protected] wrote: > How can I create an account if I don't know anyone with a Dwidth > account and don't want to purchase a paid account without having > tested the site? > On what basis are you going to decide to whom you'll give those > 'invites to use'?
All existing DW accounts will get a certain number of invite codes when they create an account (probably one or two, after a small waiting period). Every month, we (Mark and I) will look at our financial and technical situation and determine how many new free users we can support in that month. At that point, we'll release the month's supply of invite codes, distributing them to existing accounts however we feel works best that particular month -- to all users, to all active users, to all paid users, to all users who have already given out all of their invite codes, to all users who have given out all their invite codes and all their invitees are active on the service, etc. It'll all depend on what we think the service most needs at that point in time. At any point, people can also write to us and request more invite codes, etc. A quick summary of our current plans regarding invite codes: http://lists.dwscoalition.org/pipermail/dw-discuss/2009-January/ 000947.html We'll have site guides and a site "tour" for people who want to take a look around before creating an account, and people can explore by logging in using their OpenID accounts (if you have an account on any other LiveJournal-based site, you have an OpenID account) and also take a look around, although some of the features such as account updating aren't available to OpenID accounts. Our documentation team is already hard at work creating that documentation, and we'll also have a "Guide to switching from LJ or another LJ-based system" -- ie, what's different about Dreamwidth, and what additional features we have and how they work. I'm virtually certain that invite-code-sharing communities will spring up on Dreamwidth once it opens, for people who have extra invite codes to hand out to anyone who needs them (that's what happened on LJ) -- we might even make one "official" comm, where people can comment to an entry and request an invite code and other people can come by and cruise the requests and answer them. (I should also note that for people who don't want to go through the hassle of finding an invite code, a one-month paid account will be $3, and you'll also get to sample the paid user features -- which will only get more awesome as time goes on.) --D -- Denise Paolucci [email protected] Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. Coming soon! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
