Dreamwidth!

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Yup. I remain snarp.

I’m kinda still pondering what to do when cross-posting goes live - I doubt the buggy WordPress lj-crosspost plugin I’m using will be able to post to Dreamwidth. Anyway, I’ll be reading both my list there and my list here for the foreseeable future.

Edit: loqia posted in the comments saving my world with her WordPress crosspost plugin JournalPress. It will hopefully work with Dreamwidth soon, and in any case presently works much better than LJXP, the plugin I was using before.

(Originally published at SarahPin.com. You can comment here or there.)

Comments

[loqia.livejournal.com]

'Scuse the self-pimping, but JournalPress (http://beta.void-star.net/projects/journalpress/) "works" with DW.

Well, I say "works" because there's currently a bug in the DW code that's causing issues, but I helped test a patch today, which should be rolled out soonish. :3

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Oh, wow! Thank you so much for self-pimping! There's support for Friends-lock, and I don't get crazy error messages when I try to save my settings, and everything. This is so exciting!

(Obviously I have just totally switched from LJXP to your plugin.)

Thank you!

[loqia.livejournal.com]

Well, thank you; let me know if you encounter any issues or have any suggestions for future improvements (other than the userpic thing; I know, I know, I'm lazy ^^"). :)

You may also want to check out this (http://beta.void-star.net/2009/04/journalpress-vs-dreamwidth/), which is the official-unofficial patch that will make JP work with DW until they roll their fix out. And this (http://beta.void-star.net/2009/02/finding-your-livejournal-bitmask/) for how to set up custom friends groups with WP-Flock/JournalPress, since it's about as intuitive as... something not very intuitive.

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I actually just now encountered a glitch... You will know as much as I do if you look at the first two entries in my LiveJournal right now.

I'd previously tried editing a couple different older posts and not had any problems, but those had no comments on them. Let me go try one with comments.

[loqia.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay yeah.

Because JP supports multiple journals while LJXP doesn't, JP has no way of knowing which of its journals to map old LJXP metadata to... if that makes sense? It means that it physically can't edit entries that have been posted by LJXP.

It does kinda suck, now that I think about it, yeah. Hrm, okay. I'll keep it in mind as something to add in future (a "convert from LJXP to LJ" feature). Which might be cold comfort for you now; sorry about that. ^^"

... and now I get through the email for your comment answering your own question. Heh.

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No, that makes perfect sense. It's not a big deal for me at all - I don't go back and edit old posts that often (and was having trouble doing it with LJXP anyway - it killed a post with a lot of conversation in the comments once, to my immense guilt). Sorry to report a bug that's not really a bug!

[loqia.livejournal.com]

Sorry to report a bug that's not really a bug!

Heh, not at all; it's good to know these things. Believe me, if you said, ten other people have been thinking it. ^^"

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Or, no - I see the problem. Those earlier posts were all cross-posted with LJXP, so JournalPress doesn't know they've been cross-posted and duplicates them, I guess. That probably doesn't really count as an "issue."