I must be missing something...

[zafra]

cold_poet is laughing at me right now, I know it. :D I'm always showing her my epic fail of grasping online stuff! (like how the hell you display a link to her journal here?!) What can I say - I spend more time in computer guts, invoicing and the inner workings of registry files than actually posting crap and social networking. (because reading

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[zafra]

Well, thankfully DW makes it super-easy to cross-post and I for awhile I was posting there, and letting them send it over to LJ. But I fell-out of that habit when the tab wasn't up all-the-time. :D I did this time, though.

[sabriel75]

You are not missing anything! It does take a lot of time to get things up and cross-posted and such. I follow mostly LJ and then I peek in over at my other places occasionally. I don't even watch most of my comms here at LJ, just flitting in and checking on them when I have time. This way, I don't miss friends posts. However, you can sort LJ when weeding through your posts and only want friends or only want communities. That option should be at the top when you click on friends

[violetfrosting]

You can add filters to your friends page (in the "manage friends" option I believe) so you can view posts from, say, just fic groups, or just personal friends or whatever.

The good news is that LJ accepts HTML when posting :) The specific things you mentioned, like linking to your friends journal would be like this:

{LJ user="your friends name"}

Obviously you need to use standard < > brackets, but that would give you

cold_poet, for instance

The other thing ("click to read on") is an LJ cut. A basic one is {lj-cut} - with < > brackets - which gives you the default "Read More" text, but if you want your own link text it's

[archaeologist_d]

I pretty much only post to LJ. Sometimes I don't even update my own website for months and months and then I'll do it at one go.

As for posting here, it's usually a mess. I'll post to my LJ then open up 2 tabs to the community I'm going to post to and get the posting right and then the links and finally the tabs. It took me a long while to figure out that's how it works best for me. And only then if I post to more than one community I go through the same thing with the 2 tabs, etc. It can get confusing.

I'm not even thinking about AO3. I've so many stories to post over there that I can't even imagine doing it.

[zafra]

You guys are making me feel more normal, thank you! LOL I have to open multiple tabs, also.
The good thing is, I really don't have much to put on AO3 right now. So I consider it good timing! I honestly haven't written much, at all.

[casualtheatrics]

No laughing from me! Just popping by to say, I practically repapered the wall by my desk with html coding reminders. The only codes I remember are the ones for bold, italic and underline......!!! Everything else, I have to look up. I always have two brower windows open when I post something, because I can't even remember what tags I've created!! I'm hopeless. Don't worry, you are not alone! *hugs*