PSA/Housekeeping Note

[elspethdixon]

As part of my attempt to resume using DW regularly, I'm going to be crossposting all the posts I've made to tumblr over the past year or so to this journal (only the handful with original content, not the reblogs). I'll be back-dating them, so they shouldn't be spamming anyone's friends/reading page.

From this point on, I will not be cross-posting anything to livejournal. For various reasons involving immediate family members and their choices of career, it's probably not the best idea for me to continue using LJ now that the servers are located in Russia. I already have all the posts I've made on LJ since 2003 backed up on Dreamwidth, and I will probably delete all the posts on my personal LJ soon and leave a placeholder post with a link to DW. I'm reluctant to actually delete my entire LJ account lest it take my cap_ironman and ship_manifesto posts and other posts and comments I've made in discussion comms with it, but from now on I won't be using actively using it anymore.

Not that anyone who still has me friended on LJ is likely to notice, considering how much of a lurker I've been for the past few years ^_~.

Comments

[muccamukk]

FYI, you can delete your LJ but choose to leave your comments and comm posts up. That's what I ended up doing.

[elspethdixon]

I'll have to look into doing that, thanks!

[pkoceres]

Interesting, I didn't know you could crosspost from tumblr to DW. :0
I've also been pretty bad about checking DW regularly, but I'm glad to see you active here!

[elspethdixon]

There's no actual crosspost feature - I literally copy-pasted the content of the tumblr posts actually worth saving for posterity into the DW posting window and reset the date so it matched the original tumblr post. Luckily there were only about three posts that were actually worth copying over, once I eliminated posts that were someone else's reblogged content with my added commentary.

[pkoceres]

I literally copy-pasted the content of the tumblr posts
Oh! Okay, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. :)

[elspethdixon]

Life would be a lot easier if tumblr did allow crossposting, but that would require adding a useful user-friendly piece of functionality to tumblr, so it will never happen.

[pkoceres]

SO TRUE. I've never seen a platform so determined to thwart the user.