PSA: Fixing Livejournal

[mdlbear]

Here, in two easy pieces, is how to fix Livejournal's recent problems.

Fixing the comment page.

1. First, if you're still using an S1 (ancient) style, switch to S2.
2. Go to your profile.
3. Go to Journal > Journal Style, and in the box headed <yourID>'s Current Theme click on "Customize your theme" (or just follow the link)
4. Under "Basic Options", find the line labeled "Disable customized comment pages for your journal". Select "No". (As in "no, don't fsck up my comments".)
5. Go to Profile > Settings > Display(tab) (or just follow this link.)
6. Under "Comment Pages", check the box for "View comment pages from my Friends page in my own style"

Fixing DDOS attacks, Rich Text Editor failures, and a host of other problems.

1. Go to dreamwidth.org and create an account. For the rest of this year you can create a free account without an invite code, but a paid account is well worth the price.
2. From your profile, go to Organize > Manage Account > Other Sites (tab), or follow this link.
3. Add your LJ account under "Crossposting", and check the boxes under "Crosspost by Default" and "Display Crosspost Link". Now anything you post on your shiny new DW account will be crossposted to LJ.
4. Go to Organize > Import Content (or follow the link to Import Journal). Import your old LJ contents. Do this every month or so to import the accumulated comments.

Now, sit back and watch the ongoing decline of LJ with a certain air of amused detachment.

Comments

Re: Thank you!

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Just exactly what she said!

Although I do have one minor complaint about DW. I have about 45 userpics here on LJ. I am allowed 15 on DW. In the import process, "if you have more user icons than you are allowed here, only the default one will be imported". I suppose that lets you pick and choose, but how do I do that?

And how many will I get w a paid account?

Re: Thank you!

[kshandra]

I'm not quite sure I follow what you mean by picking and choosing. You can manually upload whichever of your current LJ icons you'd like to take with you to DW, sure, but Loiosh is the only one that will automatically import with your entries. (When you do manually upload userpics, if you name them the same on both sides, you can select "Update icon keywords" the next time you do an import, and any entries that used those icons on LJ will be updated on the DW side to use them, as well.)

Paid DW accounts get 100 userpics.

Re: Thank you!

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Thanks.