December points bonus time!

[denise]

Hello, Dreamwidth! It's been a hell of a year on our end, but amidst issues ranging from family to health to family health, all y'all and this place of ours have been a bright spot. As our way of saying thank you for continuing to help us prove it's possible to run a social site without selling your users (or your soul), it's once again time for the December points bonus!

For the month of December, all orders of points and paid time in the shop (https://www.dreamwidth.org/shop), for you or sent as a gift, will get a 10% bonus of points once you complete the order. For instance, if you buy a 12-month paid account (350 points), you'll get another 35 points once the order is complete for you to use on a future order. This bonus only applies to orders of paid time or points -- bonus icons and rename tokens don't receive points bonuses. If you buy paid time or points for a friend, the bonus points will go to you, not to them.

IMPORTANT TO KNOW: When we say "the month of December", that goes by server time, which is in UTC. It's not midnight your local time zone! (For people in Pacific time, for instance, the promotion ends at 4PM on 31 December.) Every year a few people get bitten by this, so if you're planning on buying paid time during December, it's best to do it on 30 December or before.

This is our annual way of saying thank you, because we owe you a lot. Every day it seems like there's another story in the news about a site selling data on its users, manipulating what their users see, or prioritizing page loads and "active users" metrics for their investors over people's actual lives, safety, and security. We built Dreamwidth because we believed there could be a better way, and we are grateful for all of you who believe in that better way enough to come along for the ride.

Here's to a wonderful December holiday season and to a 2018 that does not suck.

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Comments

Re: Also, an apology

[denise]

Thanks! The keyboard is actually the problem, though. The act of striking the keys with my fingertips radiates up the hand and shakes up (painfully) all the connective tissue that's misbehaving. The only reason I can use my phone keyboard is that I have Swype installed and can drag a thumb over the keyboard instead of tapping. Which of course is making the tendinitis in my thumbs worse, but I have to be able to communicate SOMEHOW or I'd go around the bend. I dis try a few "use your phone as a keyboard for your laptop" remote control type things but none of them worked right, sigh.

Re: Also, an apology

[frandroid]

I feel that AR/VR will take off when voice capture is good enough or we find another way to input text in devices hands-free...

While waiting for that future, I wish you a successful treatment.