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

[jenlev]

Hi There, just a quick note to let you know that the "add new account" button on my account page isn't working. I gather there's another link from reading the comments, but thought you'd want to know of a possible bug. Thank you for all your hard work and the time, it's greatly appreciated. :)

Re: Crossposter messes my Reading page

[princessofgeeks]

this happened to me, too.

[azurelunatic]

And so people know, in case they were wondering, in conjunction with the crossposter, it does translate across. Here, NSFW is there Adult Concepts and 18+ is Explicit Adult there, working just fine. (So if you don't want it like that there, break the crossposting chain.)

[azurelunatic]

I ran into something similar too, and wound up deleting two posts by accident. That was fun.

[azurelunatic]

... by which I mean, I cross-posted, then imported from LJ, getting two posts. I decided to delete the original, and accidentally hosed the crossposted post on LJ. For maximum avoiding-pissing-people-off, I suggest a confirmation when deleting something cross-posted. I wouldn't want to accidentally lose comments on a remote post. It will be an annoyance for people who know they want to delete, but from my perspective that is outweighed by not surprising people.

[sashajwolf]

Just by way of additional data, the button works in Google Chrome.

[azurelunatic]

That top clicky box is going to make more sense if you have multiple places to crosspost to. The top clicky box is "crosspost, yes/no?" and the bottom one is "and do you want it here?", which is silly if you have one account to crosspost to, and less silly if you have more than one and you don't necessarily want it going to both. So you could do "crosspost, yes, but only to LJ and not IJ", say.

Re: You probably already have this one, but:

[azurelunatic]

It made perfect sense to me, upon looking at the code in the LJ post. (Happened to me too.) Looks like the video I posted this time was video #5, right. So, in the corresponding entry on LJ, I got video #5 that I'd posted over there. Very simple and elegant.

I'm wondering if this isn't caused by running stuff through the HTML cleaner first, then crossposting, and if the order shouldn't be reversed somehow, though that would lead to its own bag of worms. (I may be very wrong.)

Re: Works like a dream - yay!

[azurelunatic]

It sounds like you had the importer running between the time the entry was first posted and the time you noticed the duplicate entry; the same thing happened to me. It's not automatic; I plan to keep running the importer every few weeks to pick up stray comments.

[azurelunatic]

From the comments in the original bug, try hitting http://www.dreamwidth.org/misc/beta and upgrading your account type, then trying that again. (That tool works only for the duration of closed beta.) I think I recall seeing something like 1 crosspost site for free accounts; that may be what you're running into.

[azurelunatic]

Brilliant, I got that same thing!

[azurelunatic]

and, whee, there's a patch for that!

[azurelunatic]

Have submitted a summary of crossposter issues and shininess requests, as of 137 comments, to bug 180.

[dzurlady]

Ah, ok. It still cross posted without me having that ticked, which is good.

[ptyx]

Thanks! The same thing happened to me, and your method worked fine.

I'm using IE6 on Windows XP Pack 2.

[pomegranate02]

I'm attempting to cross-post to my LJ and it doesn't cross post. I have checked and I believe that I've setup correctly. I tried it 24 hours ago, edited about 23.5 hours ago, then posted a separate post about 1 hour ago all with no success. Other people are successful, so I may just have made a mistake somewhere - but the interface looks so easy (yay!) and I have been following the instructions (which are clear), so I'm wondering it it's a glitch?

[pomegranate02]

Apologies - I just saw that this has been reported.

[eledhwenlin]

Cross-posting to Inksome does not work. I don't get an error, the entry just does not appear (whereas on the other sites I tested for (LJ, JournalFen & InsaneJournal) the entry appeared pretty much instantly).

[allen]

Thank you!

[rodo]

I have no idea what I did wrong, but there must have been something. I crossposted one of my entries to IJ (received no notification either) and when I tried to edit all the missing LJ-specific codes, I noticed that I can't edit them in. I can't delete the entry either, but I can change the tags.

Could this have something to do with the fact that the entry was marked as private?

[rodo]

Apparently the issue is related to the coding of the article. I first wrote the post in Word, which added “ and ” and a few other signs. The entry looks fine over here, but I had to recode the entries to unicode in IJ in order to edit.

replying to DW comments from inside yahoo email

[princessofgeeks]

Often I notice comments I want to respond to from my yahoo email. When I try to reply at the site, by using the button inside the yahoo email, I get to the DW comment form but I can't reply. I get the "your login cookie has expired" message. It won't let me log in from the comment form.

When I then go to the main DW page, or my page, my login is still there. I'm still logged in.

Just FYI.

[wembley]

Someone advised me to leave a comment discussing my adventures with the crossposter, so here goes!

1) The basic thing it needs to do -- x-post entries you've just written in DW over to LJ -- works beautifully. I also love that if you edit said entry, it will edit the entry on your LJ, too. Magical!

2) One issue, though: If you flock and filter the post, it will cross-post to LJ as flocked, NOT filtered. (I'm not sure if this is an issue with the x-poster, or because a lot of my DW filters are currently populated with OpenIDs, so it doesn't match the LJ filters exactly... Don't know.) Either way, DW users: if you have sensitive stuff that you only want a trusted, filtered few reading, it's better to x-post it as Private and fiddle with the security manually on LJ for now.

3) I decided to see if the x-poster would also work with editing older entries that have been imported from LJ. The answer is: sometimes?

- Sometimes, it would create a copy, on LJ, of the old post.

- Sometimes, the code would change and look all DW-y (extra tags at the line breaks, etc.) but the edits wouldn't take.

- Tags were never able to take.

Anyway, just FYI. It's a really awesome tool, though.

[deviant]

I set up my cross posting account (LJ) a couple days ago when this feature first came out. I posted tonight and while it defaulted to crosspost to my LJ while I was writing the entry, the post hasn't shown up on my LJ although it is posted in my DW journal.

:(

Vista, Firefox 3.0.8, premium paid account

[deviant]

Oddness. Just deleted the link in the account settings and then re-added it. It works now. Perhaps I entered the password wrong?