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[afuna]

So I've been hit by the thing where you can't post long entries normally (though I haven't been hit hard. My recent entries haven't exactly been long). It's made me poke around a bit, and I've discovered that I can still post via email and Google Documents (and apparently I knew about GoogleDocs before because it was all set up when I went to try it).

Now email posts are okay, but they leave no way to edit once you've posted (or "I've posted" since not everyone is affected). However, Google Documents let me post and edit. I'm back in business, baby! (As soon as I'm not-lazy enough to get off my butt and actually start typing ;))

Deleting is another matter. Right now I'm reduced to tampering with the headers so that the entry text isn't transmitted when I try to delete, in order to reduce the postdata size, and be able to have the submission go through. I know, I could just rig up a script to disable the sole textarea and then hit delete, but I'm too lazy to, whatever.

(I kind of miss the days when deleting was a one-click affair (plus confirmation :P))

This too shall pass, etc etc etc. In the meantime I shall be forced (but gladly!) to keep things short and swee-- simp--. Keep things short. (One fatal flaw in this plan: somewhat harder to strike out text in Google Docs. Button is there, but it's in a dropdown. Not worth the effort.)


ETA:
Oh dear, no way to control tags or entry security.

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[pne.livejournal.com]

Posting via Google Documents? Tell me more?

Deleting is another matter. Right now I'm reduced to tampering with the headers so that the entry text isn't transmitted when I try to delete, in order to reduce the postdata size, and be able to have the submission go through. I know, I could just rig up a script to disable the sole textarea and then hit delete, but I'm too lazy to, whatever.

Delete all the text in the textarea before submission, perhaps? (Ctrl+A, Delete for me, for example)

[afuna]

Delete all the text in the textarea before submission, perhaps? (Ctrl+A, Delete for me, for example)

...I'm ashamed to admit that that never occurred to me (because I was worried about losing my data D:)


Posting via Google Documents? Tell me more?
Do you have a Google Documents account? If so, open a document and click on the Publish tab (far right). There should be a 'publish to blog' section. Select "LiveJournal.com" from the dropdown. The rest is self-explanatory.

Publishing posts. Republishing edits. It's pretty neat. (There's something somewhere about tags, but I guess it doesn't work with the LJ API?)

[pne.livejournal.com]

(because I was worried about losing my data D:)

...worried about losing your data, when you're about the delete the entire entry?

[afuna]

Yes, hence the "D:", because the lack of logic in that didn't occur to me until you pointed out I could just delete the entry text before deleting the entry.

[afuna]

Oh yeah. You can delete via Google Docs as well. *g*

(Even less reason for me to have had trouble deleting!)

[keilexandra]

Ooooh, you can post via Google Docs? I never knew that. Haven't been hit by the bug yet, but I'll keep it in mind.

[afuna]

You can test it out just for fun as well *grins*