Slow LJ Migration

[flit]

In my very slow way I am planning to copy my LJ archive over to DW, and make DW my primary journal. I have a permanent account on both sites so I haven't been as affected by the creeping ads found over in LJ-land, but the constant DDOS issues, plus the ads to non-paying members, is making that site more and more unusable as time goes on. It's a shame as I've enjoyed it, and will continue to cross-post to LJ even when I've rehomed to DW, and answer comments at either place.

Anyhow, I want to finish some tag cleanup before I do that, because it's easier for me to retag things on LJ than here. (I have an offline app that handles it pretty well.)

But people who know me from DW and not from LJ might be surprised by non-recipe content (heck, any content at all; it's been a long time since I've been coherent enough to post a recipe here) coming online in... oh... probably a month or two... so I wanted to give a head's up. In the meantime any post-like things will continue to occur over there.

Comments

[rfrancis]

I've never paid for DW so far, and I admit that my lack of my vast icon collection kind of slows me down for using it. Intellectually I know I can just post here and it mirrors to LJ and, as you say, I can respond to comments wherever they occur. I dunno.

If I started paying for DW I'd probably stop paying for LJ, though. Neither of them are really expensive, it's just... principle? Not really. Cheapness. :)

[rfrancis]

Okay, I'm a little surprised I can't edit my comment. Can't I do that on LJ? Am I nuts?

Anyway I was going to say that another thing that bugs me is having to go both places to read new posts, but really, the new posts I get on LJ must be as many as... 3-4 per day, tops? So probably not that big an issue. :)

[flit]

You can on LJ... I guess they make you delete and repost here? Hrm.

I am not too worried about being overwhelmed on LJ. :)

I did however just manage to delete my last post that I spent brain cells typing up from both here and LJ when I only wanted to delete it from here (I'm not fully mirrored to here yet), because I R SMRT.

[flit]

I think it's really reasonable to only pay for one service! And yeah, the icon collection does change things. Mine isn't very large so if I were restricted here I wouldn't be that troubled (I have not yet, in fact, migrated more than one icon to here), but lots of people have lots of great icons.

[flit]

The splitting is a bit of a bother, but mirroring posts is at least easy. That's why I don't turn off commenting on either end; I'd rather deal with comment fragmentation than make people use a foreign system. It's easy enough to set up reading lists so I can read other people who mirror only on one or the other site.

Though I should probably put in crosslinks so people can check the other post for comments if they care, hmm.

[rfrancis]

They make it pretty trivial to put in crosslinks. Theoretically I should have it set up (after the last one I crossposted, sadly.)

[flit]

I find the crosslink UI really confusing. What if I want to have crosslinks but not turn off commenting? I couldn't figure out which option to choose! I guess I need to just play with it and see how it works... or I can crosspost from semagic, which is how I do most of my posting already.

[rfrancis]

I have "Other Sites" set up like this:

Disable comments on crossposts to other sites is unchecked.

Add the footer to the post on the other site is set to Always.

My footer is set to:
<span style="font-size: smaller;">This entry was originally posted at <a href = "%%url%%">%%url%%</a>.</span>

And then I have both Crosspost by default and Display crosspost link checked on the Livejournal entry above.

[flit]

Aha, thanks.