Is this thing on? A good day for transitions.

[mdlbear]

So... this is a test of crossposting from Dreamwidth to LJ. Assuming it works, my plan is to use DW for posting longer articles (e.g. things in the River and Adventures in Family Computing series), and continue posting my daily "Done Yesterday" posts, memes, and so on in LJ.

Every week or so, I'll import LJ back to DW. So DW will end up with the complete set of posts and comments, but the daily posts (being effectively back-dated) won't show up in your DW reading page. They will show up on your LJ friends page.

Alternatively, I could post everything on DW first. That would be simpler, of course; I wouldn't have to import as often, and my post stream would be the same in both places.

So what's more valuable to you? A place where you can read a low-bandwidth stream of (hopefully) interesting articles uncluttered by daily updates, or the ability to read my full set of posts on whichever service you prefer?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Comments

[maellenkleth]

low-bandwidth, high-quality, by preference ^_^

[lapislaz]

I personally post everything to DW and use the very reliable cross-poster to hit LJ. Saves time, saves all that importing.

That said, I read both DW and LJ regularly, so wherever you post, not going to miss anything.

And welcome to Dreamwidth.

[firecat]

I would prefer you to post everything on DW first and to include crosspost links on both DW and LJ entries.

[kyrielle]

I can work with either, but I benefit if you post everything here on Dreamwidth. I try to read people who are cross-posting here, and everyone else on LJ, but people who cross-post only some content I read both places - and get a double dose of the cross-posted content. (Unless the non-cross-posted content is guaranteed of no interest to me, which is not the case here; your daily posts often have interesting thoughts, insights, and links.)

Also, for people with paid accounts who want only "high-content" items...here on Dreamwidth you can further define an access filter (such as the one displayed by default on your reading page!) so that the people on it are further filtered by keyword! Go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/subscriptions/filters - select an existing filter (or create one, then select it), select one of the people in the filter, and the options appear to the right.

[septemberlilac.livejournal.com]

Don't like DW. Wanna stay here. *sulks* Er, sorry, I'll take the "full set on whichever" option, please.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

I want to stay (and plan to stay) here too--but I also don't want to risk losing stuff I wrote to political despots. (IMHO, shutting me down because you don't like what some people on a different side of the world wrote is despotic, regardless of the rest of their politics.) Thus, mirroring on DW, once I figure it out and have time to set it up.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Since you plan to have it all on both eventually, I'd just do it the easy way.

So, how does this importing to DW work? I assume you have to have a paid DW account to do it?

[annathepiper]

*delurk*

You don't have to have a paid account to do an import, to the best of my knowledge. The FAQ link about how to do it is here. I was able to import my own LJ over to DW before I committed to having a paid account there.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

Awesome, just did that myself. I'm deirdre over there.

[elf]

Nope; DW importers are for everyone. They haul in the whole journal with comments (which become OpenID links).

I want everyone to move to DW, or at least post from DW, but that's because I'm greedy. (Steve: I'd be happier with everything at DW, especially if it's all got links to the LJ posts where I'd expect most of the discussions to be. However, if you crosspost, I'm not sure there's an easy way to import with comments; I don't know if that would wind up doubling the posts.)

[mdlbear]

Apparently it knows what's been crossposted, and just snags the comments.

There was supposed to be a crosspost link at the bottom -- don't know why there isn't. I'll have to work on that.

[elf]

Crosspost settings are at http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=othersites (Which you must've found to set up crossposting, but that doesn't always mean "can find the page again easily.")

The big crosspost box at the bottom is what shows up on LJ; that one's working. The checkbox at the top that says "Display Crosspost Link" should make the link show up at DW as well. It's a newer feature, so people who set up their crossposting a while ago have it unchecked by default.

[mdlbear]

Yeah, I eventually found all the pieces, but thanks.

[annathepiper]

I'd say go with whatever's easiest for you to maintain.

[snowishness.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd prefer the ability to read the full set of posts wherever because I prefer to do my reading on DW, and I also prefer not to be reading duplicated content across platforms, so I'd likely just subscribe to you on DW and lose you here, which means I'd lose those posts, which I do find interesting.

(In addition they'd be easier on DW because of the cut-tag expansion so I wouldn't have to leave my f-list to read them.)

[ranch101.livejournal.com]

I have no plans to move to DW so I'll only read what's available on LJ for as long as it's here. Personally, getting accounts on all the sites my various friends start using simply wears me out. I guess I'm just not enough of a gadfly. I'm content to sit in one place.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

I'd prefer it if you do what I do - I now originate all my posts on DW, with auto-crossposting to LJ. (I imported all my old LJ posts into DW first.) Basically, it makes it possible for all your friends to read what you post, whether they prefer DW or LJ. Of course, if there's something that's only relevant on one journal or the other, you can choose to only post it where it's appropriate (for example, offering DW invites only makes sense on LJ).

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

I read both, so I have no problems with whatever you do.
I got Auntie_M at DW. ;) The joys of joining early. I just added you to my circle and stuff over there and sent you a message to make me easy to find.
And I do Facebook and Google+ too. Depends on how deep I want to post.
I have a twitter account, but mostly to read and respond to friends posts, I rarely originate anything there.
See you in the various sites.

[dejla.livejournal.com]

I'm -- happy with anything you pick.

Or as I sometimes say -- "I'm easy. I'm not cheap, but I'm easy."

[asavitzk.livejournal.com]

Crosspost it all, bandwidth be-damned.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

I want to read everything you post and I only use LJ.

[mdlbear]

Don't worry; it may take a while if LJ is down, but things will eventually get there. Crossposts are normally almost instantaneous.