hello from the other side! (dreamwidth, that is)

[anodyna]

Hey! I'm trying out crossposting from Dreamwidth. Augh, learning curve! So yes, anyway, I'm one of the 9000+ people who created new DW accounts on Wednesday. I haven't worked out yet how I'll use the two journals--for right now I don't plan to disappear from LJ, but depending on what they do about the Facebook/Twitter thing I might have to

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[sunfell]

What? "Registered Users" = Facebook now?

Sigh...

[anodyna]

That what I'm told. Not that it's been confirmed by the LJ powers that be, but that's how it works with other OpenID systems so that's what people are expecting. Ugh.

[scrollgirl]

Apparently the Russian company that purchased LJ is planning to purchase Twitter and it already has 10% share of FB.

[merisunshine36]

I'm on DW and under the same name. I'm trying to not have two flists that are complete duplicates, and I'd love to keep up with you--would you rather I keep you on my LJ flist or the DW circle?

[anodyna]

Hmm, yes, that makes sense that they not be duplicates. So much nuance to figure out, blargh! I think for now I'm not planning to ditch LJ, and you'll always be able to comment in either place, so probably just keep me on here for now?

I think once I've had time to digest the differences between LJ and DW it will be easier to figure out the best way to set them up. Oof, LJ, why are you doing this to me?

[merisunshine36]

gotcha! I haven't posted anything since this happened because I can't decide if I want to disable comments on LJ or only post on DW.

At any rate, I know I won't be renewing my paid account when it expires. farewell, comment editability!

[thirdbird]

I'm thirdbird on dreamwidth, would love to have you over there!

It's all really scary and upsetting and forcing me to make a lot of tough choices. Disable comments on LJ? Delete my FB profile and/or my fic journal? Not things I particularly want to do. Plus I still don't see the comms I'm most interested in making the move over to DW...I hope they will, but until they do I'll need to maintain at least a partial presence on LJ, I think.

DNW. Hate these LJ motheruckers ucking with my shi!

[anodyna]

Aww, your icon is so grumpy! I love his grumpy face

[rustydog]

Excellent points. I too valued LJ for the way I could limit the reach and access of my interactions, and it looks like that has quite suddenly and drastically been changed.

I've had a DW since the beginning, but haven't used it much. (I do have another account I've been using daily since May, for nature themed entries. For just posting purposes, it's been very easy to use.) Now I am motivated to import my entries from LJ, but because I have such an intricate set of filters over here, I need to duplicate those on DW before I can import my entries and not mess with the privacy I had set up before. I don't *think* it will be hard! Possibly time consuming though.

I've heard crossposting from DW is pretty smooth these days. Of course, you can't do it in the other direction.

[anodyna]

I have a few filters, too, and mine seemed to import correctly. The people I gave access to on livejournal appear on the list under their livejournal IDs when I check the filter on DW. (So it will say "rustydog.livejournal.com", not "rustydog". Although I then added you under that name, too.) So, I think when you import your entries the default is that your filters come too and are applied to the entries just as before. I assume you'd still have to add DW users to the filter so they could see it, but at least that's less work that having to rebuild your filters from scratch.

Crossposting this entry was easy--the only thing that took a little thinking was working out what kind of footer to put on it. I like that if you edit a crossposted entry on DW it defaults to editing the crossposted version also--I correct typos all the time and I don't want to do it twice! It also converted my DW cut tags to lj-cuts without me having to do it, which I was concerned about since the DW FAQ doesn't say. So, so far so good!

[anodyna]

Yay! I feel better having something established over there, even if all I do right now is crosspost--better to have it done than have to scramble later.