Code update

[mark]

Code was just updated. In particular, this update brings the alpha version (first release) of the crossposter tool. This release also brings a change to the way we do adult content to bring it more in line with our goals for the site. More information on the adult content change.

Please keep in mind that this is Closed Beta. As such, we're iterating quickly, and releasing early. There will be bugs, that's a promise.

Please let us know what issues you find so we can fix them up!

Comments

[fairestcat]

I was just about to comment on this. < lj user=user site=site.com > works when manually crossposting, so I'd hoped it would work with auto-crossposting as well.

Re: Question

[feuervogel]

I haven't got a notification yet, either, but the crosspost seems to have worked fine. Kept same icon, and LJ post is appropriately locked and tagged.

[redatt]

I think the cross-posting is pretty cool! Are there plans to be able to cross-post to other accounts/comms on DW?

Neither of my cross-post have (so far) turned up at inksome -- I donno if that's a problem with inksome or the cross-posting tool. The box is always unchecked when I look back, even though it was checked before posting.

I like that the tags get added the other journals and wish the mood did too.

[beck_liz]

Same issue, except with an old browser - IE 6. However, as sashajwolf mentions below, going directly to the link works.

[beck_liz]

Crossposting is nifty and works well for me, except for the aforementioned problem with Internet Explorer 6 and trying to click the button to get to http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/externalaccount.bml.

One question: is it currently feasible to post to more than one account? Because I added my LJ account fine and posted fine, but then when I went to try to add my InsaneJournal account, I could enter the IJ account info, but then when I clicked "Create" nothing happened. Could this be another unfortunate side effect of using IE 6? (Stupid work hasn't upgraded us yet, even though they've been promising for months!)

However, yay for crossposting!!! Thank you so much!

[washington_irving]

This has been brought up before, but the only problem I'm having so far is with "lj-cut". On cross-posting to LJ the tags are completely stripped from the entry.

[florahart]

This was what I came back to say, and also, to agree with the commenter below who says, could we maybe see about editing the existing one to have the words Open ID point to the page that explains in small words how to set up an Open ID thing?

Or both. When major things are finished and all.

[zvi]

The bug he's referencing is 561. The relevant comments are comment 2 through comment 12, as well as a little extra clarity with comment 21.

I'll go post this on my journal so people can know.

[ex_beautyofgr925]

I agree that this would be very useful!

[ex_beautyofgr925]

I just have to say that this is completely awesome, and I am SUCH a Dreamwidth convert!!!!! To everyone working on this, thank you, and you're awesome!!!)

Re: Works like a dream - yay!

[samvara]

OK, I had a duplicate entry created on DW when the LJ 'clone' post was commented on.

1. Post to DW and crosspost to LJ
2. Receive a comment on LJ post
3. Look at http://samvara.dreamwidth.org/ and note duplicate entry - one with the comment on it, one without
4. Delete DW entry with zero comments
5. Observe LJ post is now deleted as well
6. Laugh
7. Edit + Save DW post
8. Entry reposted to LJ (raw, without comment attached)

1. Attempt to reproduce (see http://samvara.dreamwidth.org/386028.html and http://black-samvara.livejournal.com/424777.html). No duplicate as yet - is there some sort of scheduled job running that tries to synch them up?

I am really freakin impressed if the plan is to keep the cross-posted entries in synch.

[florence_craye]

I posted from DW via semagic, and the entry I posted wasn't cross-posted to LJ. I went back to edit it via editjournal.bml, and it cross-posted to LJ, but didn't include the video embed code.

DW post: http://florence-craye.dreamwidth.org/518409.html

LJ post: http://florence-craye.livejournal.com/524666.html

I think the semagic problem is more likely with semagic than the crossposter, but I thought I would mention it here.

[rebelsheart]

Yep, but my crosspost failed. :(

[fearthainn]

Something I noticed while I was testing cross-posting: my LJ is defaulted to friends-only. The cross-post went off without a hitch, and it posted publicly on DL, and to LJ as friends-locked, which is how I have both journals set. When I went back in to edit the post on DW the friends-lock was stripped from my LJ entry. (It went from being f-locked to not-f-locked after editing. I went back in and manually locked it on LJ.)

I'll try again to see if I can duplicate the error.

ETA: Just tried again, and it did the same thing - stripped the friends-lock off my LJ post after editing. I'm using Firefox 3.04, so you know. :)

[rydra_wong]

A question: if I check my account settings, it still shows the options as 14+, 18+, etc.

And the interstitial still says "You're about to view content that [user] marked as possibly inappropriate for anyone under the age of 14. To continue, you must confirm that you're at least 14 years of age."

Will those be changing to reflect the change from "14+" to the "NSFW" (or whatever term's going to be used) concept?

[turlough]

Things I don't think anyone's reported yet:

Tags get transferred to LJ but mood doesn't.

Posting with disabled comments and then editing to enable them doesn't transfer to LJ. Posting with comments enabled and then editing to disable them does transfer to LJ but editing again to enable them doesn't.

(Using Firefox 3.0.8 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 and the HTML editor)

[allen]

Ugh. Yeah, IE and Opera handle that button tag differently. Thanks for pointing that out.

[zvi]

Even if you decide against letting people set their own pointback text, for maximum friendliness, the crossposter should (a) append #comments to the exampleusername.dreamwidth.org/###.html link and (b) also link to the reply page.

[sara]

Good morning!

I have had good luck both crossposting to LJ and editing a post from last night so that it crossposts, but when, after doing all these exciting new things, I then tried to go back in to the "manage your journal entries" page, something went clunk.

Here's a cap of the page from which I clicked "Manage your journal entries," and here's the error message that I got.

[miracled.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the brief!

[jennem]

Note: It would be great if there was a way to finagle the code to make the post that goes to livejournal recognize that < user name = "name" site = "livejournal.com" > is the same thing as < lj user = "jennem" >.

That way, cross posts can include the link. I just made a test post and both: jennem and jennem are showing up as plain text on Livejournal.

Note: Text, tags, location, and music all transfered. I haven't tried out the change in user pic, though. Since I used my default user pic in the cross post.

[zvi]

I have crossposting set as my default.

I edited an entry that I had posted pre-xposter push and did not want going to the other sites, so I unchecked Crosspost this entry before posting.

Then I realized that I wanted to edit it some more, and when I did, the entry did not remember that it should not be crossposted, which is v. confusing behavior. (If that makes a difference, this is an entry I posted to DW, not an imported entry.)

Also tested this on an entry I posted post-xposter push which I did not originally crosspost. Same result.

[princessofgeeks]

this was my question too.

[mark]

You're absolutely right, and I'm sorry for the panic. I'll update my post.

[allen]

The plan is that we'll get the generic crosspost working first, then add in more site-specific functionality. My guess is that lj-cuts would come before, say, <user name="x" site="y"> tags.