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]

Oops! I'm seisachtheia over there. I originally created the account during some big wankstorm that had me paranoid (it kept hitting people who weren't even involved for not taking sides..eugh). Now I have it more as a backup in case of inevitable LJ downtime. I'd change it to claudiapriscus, but it costs $15 and it's just not that urgent, I guess.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Cool. I will add you back...though, yeah, content between the two sites should be the same...and I don't necessarily plan to read my friend's page over there....But, hey! It'll give you OPTIONS! And who knows what the future will bring! :)

[bard2003.livejournal.com]

bard2003 always bard2003.
i don`t think that reverse crossposting work/exist at all. i just post on dw.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Do you know what will happen if I just do an "import" at the end of each week? Will it just import the entries that aren't already on DW?

I suppose I could post on DW, but then I'd have to come back to LJ and pick the icon that I actually want...and the mood-theme picture that I actually want...and b'ah, hassle.

[bard2003.livejournal.com]

sorry, i don`t know :(

[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.

[monicawoe.livejournal.com]

Yes-if you do the import once a week it will only add entries that aren't there yet. I import once or twice a week, depending on how many entries I have.

[alexseanchai]

I'm elliemurasaki over there.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Awesome, that is what I shall do then. :)

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Great! I'll add you, then you can choose which site you read my entries on. :)

[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.

[khek.livejournal.com]

Have you found an easy way to find all friends with the same username? Or are you going one by one?

It seems like DW should have a way to import friends too...but I guess that there might be different people with the same name on the two sites...

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

I'm not really planning to browse my DW flist, like I do my LJ one - so, I've just been friending people who friend me, I haven't been searching them out.

I think DW does have a way to search for similar names on DW as your LJ flist (or importing your LJ flist - but since my LJ flist is on LJ, I'm not overly concerned at the moment. If I ever moved to DW completely, I might do it then.

Does that make any sense? :P