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Hey all, as much as possible, please comment on my entries on DW rather than on LJ. (I've changed the footer on the crosspost to encourage that, as well)

Lately, I've been having trouble accessing LJ from home (I've been having trouble accessing a couple of sites, but LJ in particular ends up white-paging on me every few requests). Also, and maybe related to the first, my session keeps losing itself, and for various reasons, I find myself neglecting to log back in to LJ when I get logged out.

I have no intention of stopping crossposting, or of turning off comments on LJ entries, and I am still reading my friends page from work (*cough*). But what it adds up to is that I'm having difficulty responding to and managing my comments on LJ. So yeah, if you're trying to decide between replying on LJ or replying on DW, please do click on the links to DW at the bottom of each entry.

Thanks <3

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From:

lacey

If I know someone is both here and there, I've been trying from the beginning to comment here. Solidarity and whatnot.

From:

afuna

<3 thanks.

I've been reluctant to ask before, since I don't want to inconvenience anyone, but it's definitely more convenient for me to have everything here!

And with my recent issues, it's finally become inconvenient enough that I decided it would not harm anything to ask (for anyone who doesn't mind *G*)

From:

lacey

It has been kind of interesting to me to watch and see what everyone is doing,how they're choosing to handle it. I would prefer everyone comment at Dreamwidth but that isn't going to happen- the vast majority of my reader base is on LiveJournal, and I don't see that changing. I'd prefer to have everything in one place and have that one place he have everything.

I kind of wish that in the beginning, when I imported, I had chosen to only import everything up to that point, then import everything once a month thereafter so I'd have all my comments here, but hindsight is 20/20, etc.

From:

zorkian

You know you can just run the import again, right? It will do the right thing with comments, posting them on entries, etc.

From:

lacey

Yeah. Been too lazy so far, but I need to get my duff and do it! It won't affect my displayed entry and comment count adversely, right? Meaning that once I delete the entries here and re-import them, it won't count those entries twice, will it?

From:

zorkian

Oh wait, delete what entries? Why would you have to delete things?

From:

lacey

I had a brainfart and didn't realize I wouldn't have to delete the entries to re-import them! No need at all, in that case :)

From:

exor674

No need at *all* to delete the entries.

(er, barring any bugs >_<) the importer is smart and will put the comments in the right place on the entries that it already imported if you re-run the importer!

From:

lacey

And this is why you deserve a whole factory full of cookies.

Thank you for doing the importer, and for clearing things up for me- had a total brainfart there for a sec.

From:

owl

*<3 the importer*

From:

afuna

Yeah, same. I'm no longer attached to LJ-as-a-service, but I am still rather attached to my friends on LJ (a subtle distinction, but IMO a rather important one), so I'm really glad that DW makes it easy for me to crosspost and keep in touch still.

From:

lacey

In the same boat; I think most volunteers, former and current, are.

And yeah: subtle difference, but very important.

Edited Date: 2009-11-10 06:09 am (UTC)

From:

Depends on the volunteer, but if you're going to generalize, I think it's important to make yet another distinction: LJ-the-company, LJ-the-service, and LJ's users.

From:

lacey

Ooh. You have a pretty good point there. And yeah, it is important.

From:

wyntarvox

*comments on DW as requested!*

Actually, I don't think we have each other friended on LJ, anyway, iirc? DW, bringing people together...

From:

kareila

If I meet someone on DW, I don't bother adding their LJ. I'm trying to move as much of my reading list over here as possible. :)

From:

pauamma

Then you'll miss people who post LJ-exclusive entries in their journal. (I doubt I'm the only one.)

From:

kareila

Well, if they /tell/ me they're doing so, I might reconsider. But I'm not going to go out and look. :)

From:

afuna

I do the same as

kareila, and remove people who have the exact same content from my default view (most of the time, if someone is posting lj-exclusive entries, they'll say it somewhere and I'll know to adjust accordingly)

For a few select people who don't crosspost, but who post so rarely that I'd probably miss them on my passes through my friendspage, I track them! *g* (That has been working out well for me).