Cross Posting

[thespian]

Title
Allow users to cross post something between journals.

Short, concise description of the idea
Frequently I post things that are of interest to several groups that I'm involved in. For example, next month at dragoncon, in atlanta, I'll be hosting a sleepover night which we'll be watching the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so it will be of interest

Comments

[mart]

The first time this was proposed, back before LJ was open source and the suggestions community existed, my implementation idea went something like this: (now altered and a lot more specific since I understand how it all works a lot more)

The entries would be stored in the database as normal, but with a special logprop called master_post or somesuch, containing the itemid of the main post. logtext would only contain a record for the first one, and entries without a logtext record would be assumed to be crossposts and the property checked for the 'master' itemid.

When creating talklinks, the master post could be linked to instead, or talkread could be made to show the comments attached to the master event rather than the event actually requested. This keeps all of the comments in one place.

Finally, multiple copies of the same cross-posted post would be ignored on the friends page, showing only the first one it comes to. (Can't just use the master event, because that journal might not be on the friends list while another is)

The interface for this is difficult, though, and the code behind it on the server won't be much better.