The LJ/DW crossposting feature completely stopped working a few weeks ago, apparently. The DW owners tried to fix things with the LJ people, as they have done successfully in the past, but got no help from LJ. . .yet another hint that maybe LJ won't be around for long.
Actually it might be just the opposite. The ability to crosspost is basically a back door to the site. This might help them keep from getting shut down.
I hope so! But I'm confused (tech often baffles me, I'm afraid) — how would the loss of cross-posting help LJ from getting shut down? Or is it DW that will protected?
If you find yourself forced to restrict who can post by geographic ranges (for ... reasons) then crossposting gets users around that restriction without much trouble. It's likely to help keep LJ from having some avoidable issues.
Be sure to import your journal to DW. (Instructions here: https://gingerbred.livejournal.com/48188.html if you need them — and then it links to pictures of how to where you need those, too.) They seem to have the import function working again.
I'm a bit hesitant about the import because I've done that before, but only up to 2017. That's the bulk of my posts really, and it contains the most important parts of my Potter fandom stuff. I'm worried that doing a new import just to add the later stuff will mess up the pre-2017 content as well :/. Does that sound like a legit concern or would you say that's my non-tech-savvy lizard brain talking? XD
It will probably be fine. I've just imported six journals and two comms today and things don't seem badly mangled.
What I wrote in the post: "FULL DISCLOSURE: the import can make a slight hash of things with double entries, very occasionally the order of entries, and old / now defunct tags, but it's still much better than the alternative of losing your journal and all the wonderful comments. (If you have a journal where the formatting is far more important than the comments, for example if it's a book (who would be so foolish... 😉), then unfortunately 'importing' by hand is the way to go, copy / pasting into the other journal. You won't have any of your comments that way, though, and it's probably still easier to import and then adjust the order / tags / entires if need be.) "
As far as I can tell, it won't overwrite things (so it doesn't edit them either), but that editing of old poss on the LJ side goes lost either way, import or no. The reverse is also true, however, editing on the DW side is preserved. The most likely worst case is you get double entries (that happened with a single entry on one of mine that I know of) and those are fairly easy to delete. The biggest source of that problem seems to be if you'd made parallel entries by hand when cross posting failed, but that wouldn't apply to your journal. It also ignored one of my stickied posts, or rather it copied it but didn't make it sticky, so i had to do that by hand on DW.
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Date: Friday, 11 March 2022 07:31 pm (UTC)The LJ/DW crossposting feature completely stopped working a few weeks ago, apparently. The DW owners tried to fix things with the LJ people, as they have done successfully in the past, but got no help from LJ. . .yet another hint that maybe LJ won't be around for long.
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Date: Friday, 11 March 2022 08:27 pm (UTC)Be sure to import your journal to DW. (Instructions here: https://gingerbred.livejournal.com/48188.html if you need them — and then it links to pictures of how to where you need those, too.) They seem to have the import function working again.
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Date: Friday, 11 March 2022 11:23 pm (UTC)I'm a bit hesitant about the import because I've done that before, but only up to 2017. That's the bulk of my posts really, and it contains the most important parts of my Potter fandom stuff. I'm worried that doing a new import just to add the later stuff will mess up the pre-2017 content as well :/. Does that sound like a legit concern or would you say that's my non-tech-savvy lizard brain talking? XD
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Date: Saturday, 12 March 2022 12:51 am (UTC)What I wrote in the post: "FULL DISCLOSURE: the import can make a slight hash of things with double entries, very occasionally the order of entries, and old / now defunct tags, but it's still much better than the alternative of losing your journal and all the wonderful comments. (If you have a journal where the formatting is far more important than the comments, for example if it's a book (who would be so foolish... 😉), then unfortunately 'importing' by hand is the way to go, copy / pasting into the other journal. You won't have any of your comments that way, though, and it's probably still easier to import and then adjust the order / tags / entires if need be.) "
As far as I can tell, it won't overwrite things (so it doesn't edit them either), but that editing of old poss on the LJ side goes lost either way, import or no. The reverse is also true, however, editing on the DW side is preserved. The most likely worst case is you get double entries (that happened with a single entry on one of mine that I know of) and those are fairly easy to delete. The biggest source of that problem seems to be if you'd made parallel entries by hand when cross posting failed, but that wouldn't apply to your journal. It also ignored one of my stickied posts, or rather it copied it but didn't make it sticky, so i had to do that by hand on DW.
So I'd say go for it.