Testing, testing....

[julesjones]

Just testing a bit of DreamWidth cross-posting functionality. See previous post for why.

Comments

[green_knight]

Receiving you loud and clear. And yes, that. _That_.

[julesjones]

Thanks, that's helpful on seeing whether it works as advertised.

[green_knight]

I've found that by and large it does. A couple of things I've found out:

- If you want to use custom icons, make sure that they're spelled exactly the same way (including capitalisation) - or have the same keyword for different icons - but for me, ending up with the generic LJ icon all the time gets old really quickly.
- the automatic LJ crossposter updates the post if you fix the DW one, so if you edit at LJ and then later edit at DW, things can get interesting
- don't absentmindedly post to LJ after initiating a crossposted post; that runs into the 'there's already a newer article' problem
- keep a cheat sheet with <user name="green_knight" site ="livejournal.com"> handy. (I _hope_ that's the right code. Something like that anyway.) (DW provides the 'how to link to DW from external sites' code on the profile page. Useful.)

[julesjones]

I've been cross-posting the articles ever since I got a DreamWidth account just after they opened, but I've not wanted to explicitly direct traffic from LJ to DW until now, so I hadn't got to grips with the fiddlier bits. I still don't want to force comments over to DW, because it can be awkward for folk who don't have dual accounts, but I'm going to make it easier for people who *want* to post at DW to find the DW copy.