Code update

[mark]

Just did another code update. Notably, this update fixed a number of things with the crossposter: UTF-8 posts (i.e. non-English-language posts) should work now, embedded videos should show up successfully on LJ, the button is now cross-browser, logged out users can use the update page again, etc. There were some other changes too, one or two minor fixes to the importer, and some other things.

As always, if you've got problems, we've got ears. Let us know what's up and we'll make sure it's got a bug filed and someone poking at it with sharp sticks. And sometimes dull sticks, because you really can't tell what a bug needs until someone goes in and starts poking.

Comments

[izzy]

when i try to import my journal (from LJ), i keep getting these notices:

Original post: http://izzybeth.livejournal.com/265111.html

* Failed to post: Client error: Invalid text encoding: The text entered is not a valid UTF-8 stream

it's just a few posts (thirty-odd), and they're quite old (from 2002 or so), but i thought i'd let you guys know since i have no idea if anyone's had a similar problem. thanks for all the amazing work you've done. :)

[mark]

I'm assuming that you're importing from LiveJournal. All you should have to do is go here:

http://www.livejournal.com/settings/?c=OldEncoding

And pick an encoding for your old entries. Once you've set your encoding, you should be able to run the importer and have it work.

If not, please open a support request here so we can investigate:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/

[alchemise]

I have a post that absolutely refuses to crosspost to LJ, here.

The first couple of times I tried (doing small edits each time), I didn't even get a failed message; it just didn't go through.

Then I tried a new post and it failed, but gave me the failed notification. So I recreated the external account info and tried to crosspost the new post again and it worked.

But every time I try to make that first post crosspost it fails (and gives me a failed notification). I can't see anything strange in the post, no videos or images, nothing more complicated than a link to another entry.

Any ideas?

[msilverstar]

I have a cross-posting error, when I tried to edit my entry on InsaneJournal:

Client error: Invalid text encoding: Cannot display this post. Please see http://www.insanejournal.com/support/encodings.bml for more information.

I removed the degree symbol that I copied & pasted from wunderground.com: 91 °F -- after I took it out, everything was fine. (Firefox Mac 3.0.8, Mac OS X 4.11)

[mark]

Is this still happening? The code push we did last night should have fixed this issue.

[wide_worlds_joy]

Okay, I can't input a table in my Bio.

I'm trying to use this code on my bio page:



the Bio page doesn't even show that it recognizes a table, much less cells and so on. It works perfectly on a test page on another site, but not here.

(( and apparently the tag < code > isn't working on here either. ))

[softpaw]

Hiya! I'm just a random user, but this caught my eye because I did something similar in my own profile both here and on LJ, and it worked (after much experimentation, since different attributes are ignored on each site). I'm not entirely sure why it's not working for you, but you may want to try converting the style attribute in your table tag into the old height and width attributes, since bios don't appear to recognize inline styling (among other attributes).

[zebrallama]

Hooray for UTF8! Thank you! ASCII is not enough — even in English.

[msilverstar]

Too true! UTF8 for the win!

[darlas_mom]

Hey, uh, I've got a weird one.

I use Semagic to post to LJ and wanted to use it to post here (it's just more convenient for me that way), and while Semagic logs into Dreamwidth just fine, it gives me an invalid password error when I try to post.

ETA: Never mind...it seems to have fixed itself. Weird.

[sabaceanbabe]

Crossposting through Internet Explorer worked beautifully, this morning. Thank you so much for all of your hard work.

[mark]

Thank allen, the crossposter is his baby!

[wenchpixie]

Crossposting is working perfectly for me to LJ, and importing worked a dream (with 193 icons) too. And all on IE6 (work machine, hence not uptoddate)


I'm not sure if it's a bug or if it's a just me, but when I use the <lj site="livejournal.com" comm="communityname"> code (eg: spnfencentral) the image it calls up is broken, same for cross-site users.

[mark]

Broken? Or just that it's using the user head, not the community head?

Yeah, we haven't fixed it so that cross-site user tags work with communities and non-users. That's on the list but hasn't been done yet.

[magz]

The part of the crossposting mechanism that allows you to add another account doesn't work in Opera 9. When I click the 'add account' button, it just reloads the page.

Minor issue with Circle

[reginagiraffe]

Someone subscribed to me under their OpenID. I subscribed and allowed back. They created a DW account and deleted their OpenID. I unsubbed and unallowed the OpenID but it's still there on my circle list. It says "N/A" under both subscribe and allow on their side. I expected that listing to disappear since neither of us have subbed the other.

Re: Minor issue with Circle

[mark]

Make sure they don't subscribe or give access to you. Is it lunaris1013@LJ? That OpenID is still subscribed to your account, so it will show up on your profile page.

[ginny_t]

I've seen cross-posted entries with "cross posted from this entry leave a comment there" or something like at the bottom. This morning when I cross-posted, I didn't get that (or any confirmation on the cross-posting). I'm on a Mac using Firefox with noscript (enabled for DW and LJ).

[florahart]

It only does the original post/linky thing if you disabled comments on the other sites. So far, anyway.

[flyingcarpet]

I use ie6 at work, and the update page doesn't display properly. It's just all messed up. I can still update, but can't view the music/mood/location boxes.

There are LOTS of websites that don't work in this old browser, but I wanted to let you know. Thanks for all you're doing!

[mark]

Yeah, we've decided not to actively support IE6. It's not even being supported by Microsoft and they're up to IE8 already. I know some people don't have a choice. In that case, you may want to try other site schemes. In particular, Lynx tends to work in older browsers.

[torakowalski]

Hi, I imported my LJ to Dreamwidth about 10 days ago and also asked it to import the comments but the comments still haven't arrived. Should I just carry on being patient or is it a case that if it hasn't imported them by now, it won't be going to? Thanks!

[mark]

It shouldn't take nearly that long. Please open a support request in the Importer category and we will investigate it!

[raynedanser]

Just wanted to give you folks a thumbs up. Everything is much appreciated!

ETA:
I just cross posted to LJ and IJ and a user name link (as done with the coding [user name="xxx" site="livejournal.com"] (replacing the [ ]) and the code never moved over for LJ or IJ. The user name was just plain text. Is this being worked on? Or should I have just done it as [user name="xxx"] and left it that way? (except as this person hasn't a DW account, it would have been incorrect)

[mark]

Thanks. Yes, that's a known issue and is being worked on.

[lassarina]

Hi :) I had originally had an issue with the importer where my default icon did not import. I opened a support request, and was told that the issue had been fixed and my icon should be showing up. It hasn't yet. Do I need to re-import icons, or just upload the pic again?

[mark]

I haven't yet fixed all of the icons that got broken when the importer was broken for a few days. The importer still doesn't know how to fix them either.

I'll post when this issue is resolved, but it'll be a few days still. Sorry for the trouble.

[random]

Thanks for all the work on this - I'm really excited to see it coming together.

Here's another interesting one - while editing a cross-posted entry with "Edit entry" results in the entry being updated across various sites, editing the tags in "Edit tags" doesn't seem to.

[msilverstar]

Just to make sure it doesn't get lost: cross-posting with boring old < lj-cut text="" > did not carry over the cut. This is for me and about ten other cross-posts. It may have been fixed in the most recent upgrade but I didn't see anything about it.

[mark]

I don't think we did anything to fix it this push, but I also didn't know it was broken. I think allen is reading these posts though, so we'll get a fix in the works for it. Thanks!

[shadow]

X-posting to LJ with some Japanese text in the post worked beautifully. Thank you! ^_^ A bit of weirdness with the mood setting though--the actual mood went across fine, but my mood icon isn't showing up on LJ.

[xancredible]

Nothing wrong just a little shout to who- or whatever fixed the problem with my not-autocompleting tags. They're auto-completing again \o/

[fleurdeliser]

I just made a post and decided not to crosspost, so I unchecked the box and posted manually to both LJ and DW. The problem came when I went to edit the DW post. The edits crossposted. Obviously I should have been paying closer attention and unchecked the box again, but it would be super spiffy if the site remembered crossposting settings.

[florahart]

Several of us in my circle who are not using the 'negatives" layout (but are using relatively un-futzed-with Zesty or Transmogrified) don't have the option to disable custom comment pages in the settings (we think it should be on the same page where you choose nav bar color and mood theme).

Is this deliberate because the layout has the whole alternating comment colors thing (at least for Transmogrified)? Or just not done yet? Or something else? Am asking here because I think I think that part of the account setup should be pretty much the same regardless of journal style, ...shouldn't it?

[mark]

Closed beta. Not everything is done yet.

[anne]

Is it supposed to take 4 days (and counting) to import userpics from LJ?

[mark]

No. Like the other person with the similar issue, please open a support request. We are tracking Importer problems there. Thanks!

[kali]

(I don't know if this has been reported before, but this is a bug in lj also... I consider it a bug, anyway.)

When you get comment notifications &c, and you click on the "user has replied to a comment you made in this post" link (or whatever), and in the meantime you've been logged out of dw/lj so you're redirected to a login page, after you log in you are often (always?) not directed to the page you want to go to but to the dw home page.  This happens in Opera 9.4; I don't know about other browsers.  This definitely happens with gmail; I don't know about other email providers.  I'm also not sure if this happens for both entries that are filtered and those open to everyone.  Also, the login page will usually contain two places you can enter your username/pw, and I usually use the one that's not in the upper right corner, so I don't know if using the upper right corner login would change this.

[aquaeri]

I have a similar problem, also both LJ and DW: if my browser crashes and I reload, sometimes my tabs are all set to login and don't remember which page each tab actually belongs to.

As far as I remember, in the past, the LJ tabs did remember which page they belonged to (and the login page only showed for flocked entries, and once you'd logged in you were redirected to the flocked page), but these days it doesn't seem to.

Perhaps it's relevant that I used to be a paying customer at LJ but I no longer am because I am not happy with the service.

[jenlev]

Hi there, hoping it's OK to comment with quesiton about something else? My apologies if not. :)

Anyway, I just switched to transmogrification style and have been unable to find the area where I can set the number of posts on a page to 30 instead of the default 20. Basic options -> number of journal entries just doesn't seem to exist on this style, although it's most likely that I'm just slow and technologically cursed. Any help or link would be greatly appreciated.

[afuna]

Got missed, we'll have them out soon :)

[willow]

I need to start memorying posts I see that mention where to go to report things. I could have sworn there was a place to check new bugs.

Anyway I just tried to post using Deepest Sender. I haven't had problems before but I don't know if that's because I hadn't used blockquote or lj cut before from DS.

I had to edit and when I opened my entry back up, there were extraneous < em > and < i > tags everywhere and also a lot of < user >.

Some of the tags I'd placed in it weren't closed. But I can't tell if that was me having an oops moment or whatever made the extra tags show up in the first place. I saved things for the entry in a file when I remembered someone might actually want to look at it. It's still got a lot of extra tags despite a prior attempt to clean them up.