Open Beta.

[tablesaw]

It's Open Beta, and every full Dreamwidth account received a bunch of invite codes. I already sent mine out to the people who asked a few weeks ago, but if any of those bounce back or if we get a new batch, I'll set up a new list.
The plan was to offer invitations to everyone with e-mail–verified Open IDs, but I think that got screwed up due to massive scrambling to fix the Paypal stuff. (ETA2: piranha, has the details on Open ID invites.) In the meantime, I think dw_codesharing is going to get started soon.

The promotion hasn't kicked into the paycheck yet, so I haven't purchased a paid account just yet. I knew this was going to happen, so I gamed the inactive icons system a bit to get the ones I wanted. In the process, I reported some glitchy behavior and explained what I did. I realize this information would have been more helpful to most of you a few days ago, but that's the way it goes.

I am looking forward to buying a paid account later this month. Ever since ktempest posted asking about comment avatars featuring characters of color from genre media, I've wanted an icon of Gaff. I can't decide whether it should say "Azonnal kövessen engem bitte" or "Then again, who does?" With 61 slots to fill, I guess I could do both.

And once again, my DW circle is in badly organized flux, so don't feel slighted or confused if I don't subscribe/grant access to your new account. There's no method to the madness. Yet.

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[valancy]

The plan was to offer invitations to everyone with e-mail–verified Open IDs, but I think that got screwed up due to massive scrambling to fix the Paypal stuff.

I dunno - I got an invite because of an e-mail verified Open ID I'd been using on Dreamwidth.

But I really don't know how this is going on. Your first paragraph got cut off - you can peter the other people you ... what? I don't think I have invite codes for others even though I now have an account. If I do, it's news to me, but I haven't read my inbox messages yet, I'm still importing my LJ and setting things up.

[elusis]

How do you game the icon system? I have about 125 but only signed up for the 75 icon account, yet I was still able to access the very last one in my list that I uploaded.

[tablesaw]

The upshot of the thread linked above is: DW isn't doing the counting thing that LJ used to do, it just takes the most recently uploaded icons (the ones at the bottom of the page) and the default. My problem was that the ones I wanted the most were the oldest, so I had to delete them and re-upload them with the same keywords.