Dreamwidth Timeline
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Expand: This should be a timeline of DW's conception. Should probably also include LJ actions as well that drove DW's formation.
A more complete history of LJ can be found on Wikipedia:Timeline of LiveJournal.
Contents
LJ History
1999
- 1999-03 --
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brad starts LJ
2001
- 2001-05 -- LJ clone DeadJournal is started
- 2001-11 -- LJ clone InsaneJournal is started
2003
- 2003-03 -- LJ clone JournalFen is started
- This is also the year that fandom_wank is TOSed from LiveJournal, TOSed from Blurty, and ends up at JournalFen.
2005
- 2005-01-05 -- Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal! -- Six Apart purchases LiveJournal
2006
- 2006-04-18 -- Introducing a new account level -- The introduction of Sponsored+, later to become Plus.
- May/June -- Breastfeeding strike
- 2006-09-26 -- Sponsored Content -- Sponsored accounts and features come into being
- 2006-10-18 -- LJ and SUP -- Six Apart turns over the Russian side of LJ to SUP
2007
- 2007-05-29 -- Strikethrough, Phase I
- 2007-06-21 -- Hypothetically, let's say that you had a chance to sit down with the person who's going to be the future buck-stops-here decision-maker for LJ. (synecdochic)
- 2007-07-15 -- the internet is serious business (synecdochic) -- synecdochic announces she is quitting employment at LJ and her last day is July 27th.
- 2007-08-02 -- Strikethrough, Phase II
- 2007-08 -- LJ Clone Scribblet is born
- 2007-12-12 -- Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal -- Sale to SUP
- 2007-12-07ish -- GreatestJournal diaspora starts. Users are told to start migrating to another site.
- 2007-12-19 -- Jason Shellen joins LiveJournal as VP of Product Development: http://blog.shellen.com/2007/12/im-joining-livejournal-as-vp-of-product.asp
Pre-Dreamwidth -- ie, Hypothetical Journal
March 2008
- 2008-03-12 -- The 100th Day -- Removal of Basic option for new accounts created. See also I feel very, very, very fucking sorry for certain people today. (synecdochic).
- 2008-03, 15-17 -- Interest blocking from the Top 100 list discovered and then removed.
- 2008-03-21 -- totally hypothetical no really i swear -- Poll gauging people's interest in a hypothetical journalling service.
April 2008
- 2008-04 -- Scribblit changes to Inksome
- 2008-04-06 -- First 4 accounts created. http://www.dreamwidth.org/stats/stats.txt
May 2008
- 2008-05 -- Inksome opens to public paid accounts
Dreamwidth Development
June 2008
- 2008-06-11 -- Announcing Dreamwidth Studios. Coming Summer 2008. -- The announcement of DW's conception.
- 2008-06-16 -- Poll: Mood Themes -- Poll about mood themes.
- 2008-06-13 -- S2 Styles Poll. -- Poll about S2 layouts.
- 2008-06-24 -- straw poll #19384 -- Poll about top-level menu items in the LJ scheme.
July 2008
- 2008-07-02 -- Dreamwidth needs mood themes! -- a public call for people to design mood themes.
- 2008-07-30 -- I keep forgetting! and this -- DW is open for volunteer development.
August 2008
- 2008-08-08 -- First quote in #dw IRC QDB -- A quotes database for Dreamwidth's IRC channels is opened on qdb.zhzh.org, and the first quote appears. (QDB is later moved.)
January 2009
- 2009-01-06 -- The Grim Purge -- LJ lays off half of the San Francisco office employees, including the entire design team. Dreamwidth kicks into high gear: see Rest In Peace (
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xb95) and FYI (synecdochic).
- 2009-01-07 -- GreatestJournal dies completely, after having limped along in zombie form for the past six months.
Dreamwidth Begins
February 2009
- 2009-02-14 -- Closed beta launch. Accounts are given to the beta testers and testing begins.
- 2009-02-16 -- dw-progress: 16 February 2009 dw-news comes into use.
March 2009
- 2009-03-09 -- Progress Report: 9 March 2009 -- First code tour (list of resolved bugs)
- 2009-03-16 -- Progress Report: March 16, 2009 -- Mention of "code bootcamp" (#dw_kindergarten)
- 2009-03-23 -- Progress Report: 23 March 2009 -- core2 style system backend released.
- 2009-03-26 -- Open Beta Launch Date Set -- Date of 2009-04-30 (evening, EST) set for open beta; two-phase seed account sale announced.
- 2009-03-30 -- Progress Report: 30 March 2009
April 2009
- 2009-04-07 -- http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2666.html
- 2009-04-08 -- http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2826.html
- 2009-04-14 -- LJ Support IRC moves to its own server: http://community.livejournal.com/irctownhall/8069.html
(lots of missing stuff goes here)
- 2009-04-30 -- Open beta launch.
(lots of missing stuff goes here)
May 2009
- 2009-05-01 - peak of 54663 new accounts created in one day (includes OpenID from journal imports). http://www.dreamwidth.org/stats/stats.txt
- Mark and Janine married; ceremony performed by Denise
(lots of missing stuff goes here)
March 2010
- 2010-03-07 -- "Six Weeks for Dreamwidth" festival proposed: http://erda.dreamwidth.org/44698.html (later became three_weeks_for_dw)
- 2010-03-23 -- IRC move to Freenode finalized; old IRC server decomissioned.
April 2010
- 2010-04-05 -- fu joining full time.
- 2010-04-07 -- fu's first news post.
- 2010-04-10 - 2010-04-15 (Sophie, got a more exact date?) -- http://qdb.dreamwidth.net/ split from old LiveJournal QDB, in separate hosting
- Late April -- the outboundlink LiveJournal fiasco; afuna explains the technical reasons for her discomfort. Drives a number of users to (at least temporarily) stop crossposting; some are driven to fully switch.
- 2010-04-26 -- three-weeks-for-dw festival begins.
- 2010-04-28 -- Freenode approves Dreamwidth's group application & information on cloaks added to IRC page.
May 2010
- 2010-05-03 - 2010-05-06 -- mark and denise attend Web 2.0 Expo.
- 2010-05-06 -- vulva makes a public comment complaining about an inappropriate comment from a LiveJournal staff member on material that was supposed to have been locked, which sparks a round of general as well as specific discussion about staff access to secured material on social media.
- 2010-05-09 -- mark speaks about staff access to secured content on Dreamwidth, discussion of a FAQ entry about this.
- 2010-05-10 -- denise makes a
news entry involving staff access to secured content on Dreamwidth
- 2010-05-26 - Denise and Sarah married: http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/21237.html
June 2010
- 2010-06-06 - "Account Contents" section added to the Privacy Policy (announced in dw_news June 08).
- 2010-06-08 - Tag merge and cut expansion. http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/21507.html
- 2010-06-15 - inline cut tag expansion a big hit
- 2010-06-17 - Milestone: Poll 3500
- 2010-06-25 - Bare-bones S2 style for syndicated accounts: http://changelog.dreamwidth.org/649976.html
- 2010-06-30 - ToS team roundup #3: http://dw-biz.dreamwidth.org/5624.html
July 2010
August 2010
- 2010-08-31 LiveJournal rolls out r69, with Twitter and Facebook integration, most notoriously including ability to easily send links with quotes of locked content to Twitter and Facebook, and a re-implementation of pingbacks that sometimes shared large excerpts of locked content with people not authorized to see it.
September 2010
- 2010-09-01 - Spike in Dreamwidth new accounts created: 9350 new accounts (includes OpenID from journal imports). http://www.dreamwidth.org/stats/stats.txt
- 2010-09-02
- lj_refugees created.
- Six Apart announces the closing of Vox. http://team.vox.com/library/post/vox-is-closing-september-30-2010.html
- 12619 new accounts created (includes OpenID from journal imports). Largest spike since 2009 05 01. http://www.dreamwidth.org/stats/stats.txt
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- 2010-09-07 - mark announces he has stepped back from day-to-day management of Dreamwidth. Mark remains involved with the project and a co-owner. http://mark.dreamwidth.org/21501.html
- 2010-09-10 - LiveJournal announces that the most unpopular parts of r69 (easy linking of locked or screened content) will be undone with the next code release. http://news.livejournal.com/129284.html
The Future
- Cross-site Authenticated Reading List
- Entry creation/edit redesign
- Full launch -- previously expected for Q309
