Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes…. and Fail at LJ

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Those of you reading this on Livejournal, my former blogging platform, have already seen the massive fail that is the new β-Friends page (discussed in this post on LJ-Releases and this post on News). I do not like it one bit — I don’t like its look; I don’t like the infinite scrolling, and I believe it will further drive people away from LJ, which may be their goal.

As a result of this change, for the time being, I have modified the LJ crossposter to require that comments on my post be made on the WordPress master blog at cahighways.org. You should be able to log in with your LJ or Facebook (or even Twitter) account.

Further, if this change remains, I plan to look seriously to deprecating my LJ presence (i.e., if the friends page is painful to read it, I’ll likely not read it). As I want to keep in touch with all of my network friends:

  • If you have a public blog and mostly post publically, I’ll be glad to add your RSS feed to my Google Reader list. Please let me know the feed URL
  • I’ll probably move the crossposting over to my DreamWidth account, which has the same username as on LJ. I encourage those of you on DW to friend me there and to post there. I will rapidly friend you back. Please let me know if you are posting only on DW, so I can start reading my friendslist there (currently I don’t, because those who post on DW also crosspost to LJ).
  • If I move the crossposting over to DW, I’ll set up DW to then crosspost to LJ, for the few souls that remain there.

I have quite a large number of images used on posts over in the LJ image archive. I’m open to suggestions as to how to most easily move these images onto the WordPress Media Archive, and adjust the WordPress version of the posts to use those images. I do not plan on deleting my LJ account, because I do want to preserve comments. My account is permanent, so stuff should stay around. Although, with the current Rooskie Leadership, one never knows.

Comments and thoughts about this are welcome (of course, you’ll need to do them over here at cahighways.org).

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5 Replies to “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes…. and Fail at LJ”

  1. I’ve been reading your blog over on LJ (and making the occasional comment), but will make a note (and add) your DW blog. FWIW, I’m on LJ as Spiritdance, and on DW as Spiritdancer (long story there).

    Also, DW will let you import everything from your LJ, including comments. Won’t work for community posts/comments (unless you own that community and set up an equivalent on DW, I suspect). I do suspect there will be a bit of a lag in transfers, with the latest stupidness from LJ.

    1. I’ve actually imported everything (except comments) from my LJ over here into WordPress, except for a bit of stupidity (I had it set up to cross post when I did the import, so it would import an article, and then crosspost it again … and it was a pain to get rid of 6 years of duplicates. I may set up DW to make a copy as well, but I’m more concerned with making a copy of the graphics that are hosted on LJ (i.e., the images for my theatre reviews) into my WordPress archive, and then updating the posts. I’ll have to see if there is a WordPress plugin to do that.

      If you would like, I’ll be glad to add you on LJ as well. I have this feeling I’m going to need to read both FLs until I see how this all shakes out. I welcome anyone that regularly comments :-). You should be able to log in with your LJ id here, and quite possibly (I believe I enabled OpenID) your DW id as well.

      So welcome!

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