Dreamwidth is an online journal service based on the LiveJournal code. It is a code fork of the original service, set up by ex-LiveJournal staff Denise Paolucci and Mark Smith, born out of a desire for a new community based on open access, transparency, freedom and respect. Their diversity statement has been widely praised for its inclusivity.
Dreamwidth was announced on 11 June 2008 and went into open beta on 30 April 2009. For the most part, features are similar to those of LiveJournal: users have journals, where they may post entries, each of which has a webpage of its own, and on which other users may comment. Dreamwidth also provides shared or group journals called "communities".
Areas in which Dreamwidth differs significantly from Livejournal include the following: