Public Service Announcement: Crossposts to Livejournal failing

[mdlbear]

denise reports that crossposting to LiveJournal [is] silently failing, and has been for at least the last week. This is not something that DW has any control over. Will crossposting ever work again? Who knows? Importing from LJ is also failing, so if you were counting on that...

If you are reading this on Livejournal, please be aware that you have already missed several posts of mine, and it's entirely possible that you may never see another. If this fails to crosspost -- and I have no reason to think that it won't -- I am going to crosspost this by hand, once, and then stop trying. If any posts get through after this, that would be nice, but you shouldn't count on it.

If you actually want to read what I'm posting, your best bet is to come on over to Dreamwidth.org. Same username: mdlbear. The same goes for anyone else you're following through crossposts.

==mdlbear.

(Crossposted manually from https://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/1804005.html to https://mdlbear.livejournal.com/1805763.html.)

Comments

[tagryn]

related: https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1749249.html

[madfilkentist]

Crossposting to LJ has always been a hack anyway. You have to give your password to a third party, which is a dubious security practice even with an intermediary as trustworthy as Dreamwidth. It arguably violates LJ's prohibition (part 9.2.6) against using "automatic scripts ... to interact with the service."

Combine that with LJ's massive indifference to its users, and you have something that will never be reliable.

[freyjaw]

DW is better anyway.

[mdlbear]

In a great many ways. There are, however, a few people who haven't moved over. Damned if I know why.

[septemberlilac]

In my case, it’s that I felt more comfortable there. LJ was the version for idiots, which was exactly what I needed. There are things I've never understood on DW so I stayed where I knew what I was doing.