Switching things up

[lar_laughs]

Finally caved and got an ACTUAL account at Dreamwidth instead of cheating using the Open ID which always made me a bit growly. I'm lar_laughs over there, as well. One day I fully intend to get it all pretty and a bit fuller as it is a bit paltry right now. I'm there, though. I'll try to start checking out how I can get more involved there. It looks inevitable that things will start shifting over there more and more, especially in the wake of LJ not really caring what people have to say. That bothers me. Not that I have a lot to say but I'm not the kind of person to have a lot to say. That's what I have friends for! Of course, if it sounded like it would benefit anything for me to voice my opinion, I would but they don't seem to care. Sad since I've paid them a lot of money over the years. In one name or another, I've been here since the early 2000s and I like it here. More or less.

Sooo... all that to say, if you're there, friend me and I'll friend you back and maybe we can chat there now and then. I could probably start cross-posting my stories but mostly that depends on where I spend most of my time. We shall see what the future brings.

Comments

[elle-blessing.livejournal.com]

I'll go friend you! And just FYI, you can import your whole LJ into DW with this tool: https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/importer

And also, you can set up your DW journal to post to your LJ journal... that way, you type up your post in the DW updater, post, and it posts to both places. The mark-up is a little different... like, to get a LJ user on DW, you type <user name="username" site="livejournal.com"> instead of <lj user="username"> like you do here. (And if you want it to be a DW username, you just don't put the site= part ;)

But yeah. I agree with you on people and communities slowly moving over there. When a service like LJ isn't listening to its longtime, loyal customer base, something is definitely wrong. I haven't been very please this last year.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I knew there was a way since everyone seems to be doing that lately but hadn't investigated it enough to know the hows and whys.

Here's hoping that DW doesn't go the same way that LJ did.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

How do you do a LJ-CUT on DW???? I can't find anything in the five minutes I've taken to look. I'm getting disgruntled with myself for not knowing!

[elle-blessing.livejournal.com]

Haha XD

You just do <cut text="text here"></cut>

It'll automatically change the markup to something LJ recognizes when you cross post. Also, you can alway double check everything's working by switch to rich text view in the updater. If it doesn't recognize a username or you have the markup wrong, it'll tell you or the username won't show up. Then switch back to HTML view and post. Word of warning though. Copy your entry befor switching to Rich Tex view. If you typed the username <name="username"> by accident, without "user", when you switch back to HTML all of your entry after that markup error will be gone.

Good luck!

[meridian_rose]

I still do most of my reading at LJ, but most of my posting at DW and do the cross-posting thing. This means if I find an error, I only have to amend the DW copy and it automatically updates the LJ copy too. When I remember to, I do the import to DW from LJ and all the comments left on the LJ copies, as well as any LJ entries I've made get copied over to DW.

I've got most of my feeds set up at DW and keep wanting to cancel them at LJ so I read more at DW - there are a lot of comms that are LJ only still, but now that the 'import communities' function has started to be implemented at DW I think more people will migrate over there next time LJ has another major Fail or downtime.

And DW seems very interested in what people say. There's polls where you can give input on proposed changes and you can suggest changes you'd like to see. There's the LJ refugees and Getting started comms where you can ask questions and people will help you with getting your journal set up the way you want or help troubleshoot problems. And they're still committed to the fannish and creative communities in a way LJ no longer seems to be.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

That's what everyone has said which makes me feel good about being there. I'm just not good with being somewhere "new" so I've been dragging my heels about the whole thing but it's time.

I really like the import communities thing which is what finally decided this. I didn't want to leave behind my communities but now I don't necessarily need to! That makes me very happy!

Thanks for the comm ideas. I didn't know they had those kinds of things, though. Nice to know there's a place I can go with questions where people have probably already asked the same ones!