Imports from LJ re-enabled

[denise]

LJ has let us know that they've re-enabled third-party application access to the site, which has allowed us to re-enable imports from LJ and means that crossposting to LJ will be less likely to fail. (Crossposts still may fail due to temporary site unavailability; as mentioned in the previous update, until you get a failure message in your inbox, the crosspost is still retrying even if it hasn't actually posted to the remote account yet.)

Thanks to LJ for keeping us in the loop on this. We salute y'all over there for your tireless efforts to stay online throughout this DDoS.

Comments

[lannamichaels]

Thanks to LJ for keeping us in the loop on this.

And thanks to y'all for keeping us up to date on this. :)

[frith]

Thanks for the update and the pointers. 8^) I used your advice and "edited" my post from yesterday, ticking both crosspost boxes, at last getting it to crosspost to LiveJournal. ^_^;

[dawntreader]

on a side note, i like that we get a FAIL notice if a crosspost fails but not the continued notices that it posted for us. we can see when it posted! but it's nice to be notified it didn't post.

that was a nice change awhile back. so... thanks.

[rowrbazzle]

Still not working for me. I has a sad. :(

[glassfinger]

Me, too. Characteristically, LJ seems to be allowing it one minute and falling asleep at the wheel the next.

[denise]

If things are failing, there will be a message in your inbox that will help you troubleshoot. If you still can't figure out what's causing the failure, open a support request! (It's entirely possible, though, that your job just happened to run at a time LJ was unreachable again.)

[rowrbazzle]

I did open a support request, #11359.

[lucridlucifel]

I hope LJ doesn't go down in flames. I like it very much over there, but if anything, there's always DW. It's pretty cool over here.

[februaryfour]

So do we have to re-post or manually crosspost or edit if it fails? I had to manually post an entry because after a few hours it still wasn't showing up, and now I've got two notifications letting me know that editing my DW entry failed to crosspost to LJ. What should I do to make sure they propagate?

[denise]

The process will try five times and then permanently fail; after you get the permanent failure notice is when it won't be trying any more. (I honestly don't remember what the difference is between the "this failed but will try again" message and "this failed permanently" message, but right now, you'll get up to five attempts to retry the crosspost before it gives up.)

If it permanently fails at the time you try to crosspost, you'll need to edit the entry, check the crosspost tickybox, and save the entry to start the process again.

[februaryfour]

Oh, thanks, I'll pay more attention to the messages and check the tickyboxes. ^_^

[franzi1981]

Cross-posts are still failing.

[denise]

Yeah, there's a chance any given crosspost will fail, based on how badly LJ is being DDoSed at any given time and whether or not DW can reach LJ's servers. The crosspost attempt will try up to 5 times, spread out over about an hour, to see if it's just a transient error; after that it will give up (assuming that the remote site is completely down and it doesn't make sense to keep trying) and give the user a permanent failure message. Because it's based on whether Dreamwidth's servers can reach LJ, not on whether you can reach LJ, there may be times when you can reach LJ but your crosspost fails, or your crosspost succeeeds but you can't reach LJ.

Basically, crossposting will be a little wonky until LJ's DDoS clears up.

[wolfangeldeath]

Could you point me towards instructions on Imports from LJ? *is n00b*

[denise]

http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=86 has details! Basically, you go to https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/importer and enter your username/password for the site you want to import from. Then pick what you want to import. From there, you can wander off, and eventually your entries/comments/etc will appear in your DW account like magic!

We right now support importing from LiveJournal and InsaneJournal, and hope to be able to support other sites like Wordpress, Typepad, Movable Type, etc, in the future.