Now I feel silly.

[matt_doyle]

I have intended to start crossposting for a long time, since people seem to be gradually migrating to Dreamwidth (let me know if you need an invite code) and I do like the ethos and transparency at Dreamwidth, while at LJ I like my massive unwieldy and stubborn friendlist.

I, uh, never realized just how easy it was to set up crossposting, though, or I would have done it ages ago.  For those of you who have, like me, been considering it without investigating it, hop over to Dreamwidth and have a look.  It took me about ten seconds to set up.

ETA: Now, how easy/complicated is it to import old posts from one platform to the other?  Do I have to go back and do it manually, one at a time, or is there some clever app that would let me mass-duplicate old posts and toss 'em up here?  Central archiving is nice...

Also, something I don't know yet and am about to find out:  will this edit automatically crosspost as well?

ETA2:  Apparently it will.  Nifty.

ETA3:  And as of now I have imported everything from both matt_doyle and mattador .

Holy cow.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Now, how easy/complicated is it to import old posts from one platform to the other?

Easy! The magic Dreamwidth importer will copy everything across, usually in a matter of minutes (unless everyone's trying to import at once, in which case you might have to wait half an hour or so).

[matt_doyle]

Awesome, thanks!

[ex_fathomless325]

Forgive me for intruding. I found this post through the "Latest Things" feature on Dreamwidth and I just wanted to let you know that you can port your entire journal over to Dreamwidth quite easily (with only a click or two, actually.) It can take up to a day for the whole thing to transfer, but it rarely takes more than a couple of hours.

Welcome to Dreamwidth!!

St☆r

[ex_fathomless325]

Looks like I was beaten to the punch! XD

☆

[rydra_wong]

Ha! Dreamwidth, where new users get smothered by the wave of people coming to help them! *g*

[matt_doyle]

I like it, :-D.

[matt_doyle]

Thank you!

[jmtorres]

*grins* Anything else we can help you with?

[matt_doyle]

Don't think so! I've been lurking on DW for months now, just not fully making the switch. Kinda what I did when I switched from yahoo to gmail, come to think of it...

[verity_forsythe]

Isn't the import feature impressive? I was amazed by that.

[matt_doyle]

It took less than ten minutes to import both my journals! I had been using mattador since 2001!

[ailelie]

I'm glad you set this up. I so rarely check my LJ flist anymore, that I know I likely miss a lot of cool and interesting things.

migration

[jenna-thorn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw the "this might take a day" and shurgged and hit the button and went for a cup of tea, figuring I'd check on it tomorrow and then it was half done. So much for waiting and queues.

I did the friends importer as well, and then went through and had to scrub it, so I'm not sure if that was a good idea or not. Probably not. and I haven't actually checked to see if it really worked, because to me any technology is indistinguishable from magic, but it seems to be as user friendly as could reasonably be expected.

Now to find people over there. I miss LJnotes, I'll admit, mostly because I interact in communities and it was really nice to have the little flag that said, "Anti-whatever. Do not engage!" so I'm afraid I'm going to have to come up with a workaround for those as I start repopulating my reading list.

And clearing the people who've died was more emotional than I had expected.

Re: migration

[matt_doyle]

Yeah, I only clean out my friendslist every 2-3 years...

[lunarennui.livejournal.com]

*stubbornly and sullenly kicks at the rock of 'but i LIKE being backward'* i'll check it out if you'll give me an invite. (hey, that's a better deal than i've offered anyone else.)

invite code!

[matt_doyle]

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