Crossposting to LiveJournal

[mark]

Hi all,

Due to some recent availability problems with accessing the LiveJournal service, crossposts may be slow. The system does automatically retry, but if it's a slow spot it could be minutes or even an hour or two before we can get the entry posted.

Thank you for your patience!

Comments

[girlfmkitty]

Thank you for keeping us posted on things like this. =)

[firstsuperman]

Yes, I noticed that LJ has had trouble being available the last couple of weeks. Glad you're letting everyone know the cross-post problems aren't your fault (although I never thought they were).

[malurette]

Thank you for the explanation.

With LJ accessing being touch-and-go, does this mean the importer may experience troubleshooting again, too, like duplicate posts or missing comments, or is this another problem?

[lil_m_moses]

Thanks for the clarification on the automatic retry - I didn't realize it would do that.

[got_swagger]

Thanks for the update!

[abyssinia]

Thanks for the update.

Also, just fyi, yesterday I had a crosspost successfully post to LJ but my dreamwidth inbox received a note that the crosspost had failed (and, near as I can tell, the entry still thinks it failed to crosspost).

[dragondancer5150]

Ugh, yeah, LJ's been having issues for at least the past few days, so I'm not at all surprised to hear this.

Thanks for the head's up! I have my account marked to crosspost automatically, but I don't often check to see if it actually does.

[ardath_rekha]

Thank you for the heads-up! I'd noticed the downtime issues when I visited LJ the other day, but hadn't even thought about how it might affect crossposts and imports. As always, it's lovely to see just how on top of everything you already are. :)

[bluebellanon]

Hello! I'm essentially hoping for help with a problem I first commented about here.

I hope this is the right place to ask - I'll copy my comment here too:

Do you happen to know if anyone else has been having a problem where not all entries are imported over when you run an import?

Because when I repeated the sherlock_bbc import from sherlockbbc to get the comments (which failed to import before) it looks like an entry hasn't transferred. I don't know if there's more than that one, but that's one I've noticed straight away.

The entry in question is this: http://sherlockbbc.livejournal.com/5120925.html if that helps at all!

I also noticed I also have a lot of duplicate entries. Did I need to run the removal tool first? I though DW took already existing entries into account when running new imports? Sorry to be such a pain!

And one last question, do I need to wait until these recent availability problems have passed before trying the import again?

[ironed_orchid]

That you for letting us know.

[feng_shui_house]

Thanks for the information! I had noticed my cross-posts in the last few days failed entirely. I assumed it was because LJ had recently rolled out a new release on the 20th. I do hope it can be fixed, but I suspect the fix isn't under DWs control.

Thoughtul

[babysprite]

It's very thoughtful of the DW crew to keep us informed.

There's a good number of people here still maintaining ties with LJ.

What you do does not go unappreciated.

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[doomspark]

I assume this is why I'm unable to set up crossposting to LJ at all? I get an error message 'Failed to connect to http://livejournal.com/interface/xmlrpc'

[wytchcroft]

Simon, hi; i just closed my request as your reply was helpful.
But i thought it might be useful to add that the main problem i'm having in copying or pasting text (rather than cross posting) is that although it looks right in the editor - when the save function is used and the post is then read, it comes out as word salad and minus all the formatting.
this has also started happening at my blogspot (which recently changed some functionality as well).
i have the option of entering either HTML or small amounts of pasted text and editing piecemeal.

notepad is a help (thanks) i'd forgotten i had it!

hope you don't mind commenting on this, didn't seem worth blocking the maintenance channel but it's a new and slightly odd development.

feel free to ignore what is probably some obvious mistake of mine and best wishes to all the DW crew for the new year.

stay well :)