Hullo Dreamwidth. I'm not going to start crossposting (yet), because a). I don't really see any need, and b). I'm not clever enough to set that sort of thing set up, but .. hello :)
There was some sort of option for crossposting when I wrote this entry here, and I think you can set SEMagic to crosspost, but I've never learned how to do it.
I anticipate having pretty much the same group of people over here as on my LJ, so unless there's a mass exodus of people from one to the other and it becomes necessary to post to both to keep two lots of people updated, I probably won't bother.
It's actually really, really easy to set up semagic to cross post. Setting it up so that you can use tags on sites other than livejournal can be a little problematic, but not insurmountable, but setting it up for other sites really is that easy.
If you want to make sure you can use tags as well, then you'll need this post. It's towards the bottom of that post, and it's a little bit more complicated because it involves editing your registry. But the instructions are still fairly simple, and you can always yell in my direction if you need help :)
Thanks. That's really helpful. I'm not intending to crosspost at the moment, but you never know, and even if I don't I'll still need to set up semagic to post here as well as to LJ, so it's definitely useful info. :)
It seems to be the same, but with some things called by different names. And I think it's run a bit different too, i.e. not by a commercial company, which I know some people were anxious about with LJ. It's all quite new at the moment, so I think I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now and see how it goes.
There are some things I like, which are an improvement over LJ. For example, the separation between reading list and giving someone access, which means you can subscribe to someone's posts without having to give them access to anything behind a lock. I also loved how utterly easy it was to port 7 years of Livejournal across to this site, without having to mess around with software. The site does it for you just by you asking it to and telling it your livejournal account and putting in your password (which isn't, afaik, saved for longer than needed). That was really neat - it also copies across not just all of your entries but all of the comments, tags and userpics.
Wow, that's pretty cool. I have my LJ backed up, but it would be good to have the whole thing, pictures and tags and all, copied somewhere safe. I think I'll look in to that.
Here's the the importer tool. It's actually really easy to use and kind of addictive, watching as it slowly uploads all of your content ::g:: It even imports all of your bio, interests etc.
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Date: 2009-05-02 01:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-02 01:59 pm (UTC)I anticipate having pretty much the same group of people over here as on my LJ, so unless there's a mass exodus of people from one to the other and it becomes necessary to post to both to keep two lots of people updated, I probably won't bother.
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Date: 2009-05-02 02:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-02 05:12 pm (UTC)Let me see if I can dig up some links.
Okay, here's a fairly clear version of how to set up various accounts on semagic. It also tells you how to post to more than one account at a time after that (in semagic, once you've written your entry, go to 'journal' then 'post to multiple journals' and select which ones you want to post to).
If you want to make sure you can use tags as well, then you'll need this post. It's towards the bottom of that post, and it's a little bit more complicated because it involves editing your registry. But the instructions are still fairly simple, and you can always yell in my direction if you need help :)
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