Crossposting between personal journal and groups

[paul1149]

Title
Crossposting between personal journal and groups

Short, concise description of the idea
I would like an easy way to keep track of all my public postings.

Full description of the idea
There should be a mechanism to allow Community postings to be posted to one's own journal as well. This would be optional for each post.

An ordered list of

Comments

[scien]

I'm curious about why we get so many suggestions about crossposting. Does this really happen often enough that just copy pasting isn't an acceptable alternative? Since it sounds like what you want isn't a new system of organising where posts belong, but more 'also send this post to my personal journal', copypasting would give the same result, right? But you do this often enough that you would prefer to be able to automate it? Is this true of many people?

[cos]

Crossposting would be a really nice feature, if only it could be done. LiveJournal unfortunately is not designed for crossposting, and there's no easy or right way to do it. But I am not at all surprised that people want it; I also want it (I just don't suggest it because I can't figure out a sensible way to do it).

Copy and paste is different from crossposting. You're right, this suggestion is ambiguous - the OP may simply be looking for an easy way to post the same thing in two places.

[scien]

Hello, I think I know you by proxy :)

That was the impression I got. In that case, one potentially nice and unobtrusive way of doing it* would be to add it as an option in the page you get after successfuly posting something. So after posting to a community, next to the links for 'edit the entry', 'view the journal' there could be one that said 'post this to your personal journal', and bam, sent. If there were no worries about making it easier to spam, that could be a more generic 'post this content elsewhere', either with a drop down menu on that page or just going to the Post page with everything already filled in as it was when you submitted it.

* assuming that there actually is a large volume of people interested in this in the first place, which I'm not yet convinced of

[cos]

Hmm, yeah. If this suggestion had been more complete this is one way it could've been written. I'm not sure it's worth LJ's trouble since there are other ways to do the same thing, but I don't object.

ambiguous

[cos]

I can't tell from your suggestion whether you actually want crossposting, or just a way to make two copies of the same post in different places. If it's the latter you want, it's available for paid users: post by email. Write your post once, send it to your journal, then go to your sent mail folder and re-send the same post to the community.

If it's crossposting you want, LiveJournal isn't designed with that in mind, and you'd have to really think through all the issues and come up with a much more detailed proposal.

[ex_uniquewo]

Write your post once, send it to your journal, then go to your sent mail folder and re-send the same post to the community.

I think the OP wants to do the opposite: post to a community and have a copy sent their personal journal.

[paul1149]

Yes, that too, except I think the crosspost to the personal journal function should perhaps be an account setting(, which maybe that could be overridden on the fly).

[cos]

What's the difference? You can send the two emails in either order, obviously, but why does it matter?

[gwinna]

"I would like an easy way to keep track of all my public postings"

I would LOVE this. Yes Please. It's awkward to start at this late date, but maybe some sort of third journal option, "Journal, Friends, Community Posts".

This would really improve my journaling experience.