That's actually what I'm often tempted to say about, you know, the other half of that equation. Another of my gut feelings is LJ has been picking up steam lately and good for them, as I feel (with the cross-posting abilities we have in place that I see a lot of fairly popular DW users taking advantage of each day) that it might actually help Dreamwidth to grow, in the long run.
I can't really speak to how SV's great teaming masses react when DW's name gets dropped...when I say my gut feeling is DW is at least well known, I'm referring more to the upper echelon of Valleyites, whose job it is to kind of stay well-informed (at least I would think so) not so much their dev circles (though I have mad respect for some of them and think they might have at least some knowledge of us, too).
Re: a friend at Google
That's actually what I'm often tempted to say about, you know, the other half of that equation. Another of my gut feelings is LJ has been picking up steam lately and good for them, as I feel (with the cross-posting abilities we have in place that I see a lot of fairly popular DW users taking advantage of each day) that it might actually help Dreamwidth to grow, in the long run.
I can't really speak to how SV's great teaming masses react when DW's name gets dropped...when I say my gut feeling is DW is at least well known, I'm referring more to the upper echelon of Valleyites, whose job it is to kind of stay well-informed (at least I would think so) not so much their dev circles (though I have mad respect for some of them and think they might have at least some knowledge of us, too).