Hello Dreamwidth People

[hells_half_acre]

 First order of business: If you are my friend on LJ and want to be my friend on DW, but have a different username...could you tell me who you are?

Secondly: Does reverse crossposting work? I'm trying to figure out how to keep both DW and LJ simultaneously up-to-date, but I want to post on LJ because that's where all my wonderful icons are. (On DW, I just have a random selection). So...can I post on LJ and have it post automatically on DW? Or will I just have to remember to import my LJ entries once a week or something?

Any help would be appreciated...I am trying to write a novel and move house and work for a living... 

Comments

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

yeah, you can just reimport. I do it every...well, about once a year.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Cool tools! Thanks!

I'll probably do it once a week/month/when-I-remember. I just really want DW as a backup - in case LJ decides tomorrow that it won't support people with extensive clothing catalogues or other doomsday scenarios. :)

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

I am just about fed up enough with LJ to switch over, but DW is just a bit too rich for my blood, and I'm not terribly fond of the basic account.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Well, this way if LJ ever pisses me off completely, then I'll have some place to go...but the idea of relinking all my stuff isn't very appealing. Also, I'm kind of addicted to my multitude of icons.

I'm definitely not going to pay for two journal accounts at once - so things at DW are going to look pretty basic. And if I ever do switch over, then things around here will suddenly look very basic. But, from what I read over at DW, it sounds like LJ has more features for paid accounts...so, that's slightly more incentive to stick around here. I don't blame LJ for the site-downtime...I only blame them for feature/policy changes that I don't like.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. It's definitely not the site downtime that makes me thinking of taking my money elsewhere; it's the facebook integration and the comment system changes and the privacy changes and all the rest. Well, that and the fact that their attitude is, "suck it" to their current customers.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was what led me to make the back-up...I mean, if their attitude is "suck it" to their current customers, who knows what they'll do next. :P

But yeah, it's a lot of work for me to move completely over to DW, so I'll stick around here for a while longer.