I felt the same way for a while, but I found out that I was able to customize Dreamwidth to resemble the old livejournal look, which is what I prefer anyway. The new livejournal layout (friends feed, login page, etc) is totally awful imo.
As far as community, neither site is as active as livejournal used to be. But I'm starting to feel some momentum on Dreamwidth. People seem to want to get away from micro-blogging and algorithmically-determined news feeds and get back to making real connections based on shared interests. And a lot of that movement seems to be on Dreamwidth.
If you do want to check out Dreamwidth, I'd recommend starting with this post (https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/38065.html), specifically the last few paragraphs and the comments, which focus on how to get involved in the Dreamwidth community.
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Re: moving to Dreamwidth?
Date: 11/1/17 02:10 pm (UTC)As far as community, neither site is as active as livejournal used to be. But I'm starting to feel some momentum on Dreamwidth. People seem to want to get away from micro-blogging and algorithmically-determined news feeds and get back to making real connections based on shared interests. And a lot of that movement seems to be on Dreamwidth.
If you do want to check out Dreamwidth, I'd recommend starting with this post (https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/38065.html), specifically the last few paragraphs and the comments, which focus on how to get involved in the Dreamwidth community.