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OMG! OPEN BETA DAY!!! WOOO!
Okay, now that I've got that out of my system...
I woke up today realizing that I had to make this post. I'm not entirely sure how to put it or how it'll go, but I'm going to give it a shot.
I've been on medical leave for about 8 years now. It's worn on me, as you can probably imagine. I've been stagnating. Losing interest, losing touch with friends. Losing quite a bit, really.
Recently, I've been trying to turn that around. To see what I can accomplish, to find ways to be productive. To reach out and find new social outlets. To find a way to build a life again.
And, just at the right time, I found Dreamwidth. I haven't been this excited about a project in a long time. It's hard to describe why, exactly. Little things. I've rambled on about this before, and still haven't quite pinned it down. It's the way the site is being built. It's the underlying attitude to the founding principles. It's things like the rough guide for support team members. It's... it's a lot of things. It's been enough to grab my interest and hold it for weeks. I've spent hours reading entries, writing entries, surfing around, working on little projects, hanging out on IRC...
I've been making new friends. Meeting new people. Learning new things. Seeing whole new perspectives. Watching it all come together. I've been having fun on IRC, hanging out with the in crowd, the cool kids (though, in truth, with my touch-and-go self-confidence these days, that's sometimes a mixed blessing... but definitely more blessing than mixed).
More, I've been creating again. I've barely written any fic in the last few years, haven't vidded, haven't made much of anything. But now... well, it's not much, but I've been making one icon after another. Quickie projects, mostly, but still... I'm creating.
It's not the whole picture. There's still much I need to do, or to figure out how to do, with my offline life. But... Dreamwidth came around just at the right time for me, I think. Maybe even just in the nick of time. And it's been good for me. A truly positive change, just when I really needed one.
So... thank you. All of you. But especially![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
denise and mark. And the entire dev team.
And today... today is Open Beta Day! One big step forward to making Dreamwidth even more than it is, even more of a reality. And that... rocks.
Okay, now that I've got that out of my system...
I woke up today realizing that I had to make this post. I'm not entirely sure how to put it or how it'll go, but I'm going to give it a shot.
I've been on medical leave for about 8 years now. It's worn on me, as you can probably imagine. I've been stagnating. Losing interest, losing touch with friends. Losing quite a bit, really.
Recently, I've been trying to turn that around. To see what I can accomplish, to find ways to be productive. To reach out and find new social outlets. To find a way to build a life again.
And, just at the right time, I found Dreamwidth. I haven't been this excited about a project in a long time. It's hard to describe why, exactly. Little things. I've rambled on about this before, and still haven't quite pinned it down. It's the way the site is being built. It's the underlying attitude to the founding principles. It's things like the rough guide for support team members. It's... it's a lot of things. It's been enough to grab my interest and hold it for weeks. I've spent hours reading entries, writing entries, surfing around, working on little projects, hanging out on IRC...
I've been making new friends. Meeting new people. Learning new things. Seeing whole new perspectives. Watching it all come together. I've been having fun on IRC, hanging out with the in crowd, the cool kids (though, in truth, with my touch-and-go self-confidence these days, that's sometimes a mixed blessing... but definitely more blessing than mixed).
More, I've been creating again. I've barely written any fic in the last few years, haven't vidded, haven't made much of anything. But now... well, it's not much, but I've been making one icon after another. Quickie projects, mostly, but still... I'm creating.
It's not the whole picture. There's still much I need to do, or to figure out how to do, with my offline life. But... Dreamwidth came around just at the right time for me, I think. Maybe even just in the nick of time. And it's been good for me. A truly positive change, just when I really needed one.
So... thank you. All of you. But especially
denise and mark. And the entire dev team.And today... today is Open Beta Day! One big step forward to making Dreamwidth even more than it is, even more of a reality. And that... rocks.