Dreamwidth
Does Dreamwidth have a possible future which is not
either
(a) a few hardcore adopters and some number of "eh, may as well sign up to protect my username", resulting in the site never taking off and most LJ users generally just becoming really annoyed with it
or
(b) a user community of critical mass is created, leading to a modest exodus from LJ and continued growth over time which eventually accelerates to the point that Dreamwidth's creators sell out to Six Apart/Russia/Microsoft/whatever
...?
Speaking of by-invitation websites which seem to offer more invite codes than get used, I still have 50 invitations to GMail....
either
(a) a few hardcore adopters and some number of "eh, may as well sign up to protect my username", resulting in the site never taking off and most LJ users generally just becoming really annoyed with it
or
(b) a user community of critical mass is created, leading to a modest exodus from LJ and continued growth over time which eventually accelerates to the point that Dreamwidth's creators sell out to Six Apart/Russia/Microsoft/whatever
...?
Speaking of by-invitation websites which seem to offer more invite codes than get used, I still have 50 invitations to GMail....