OK, I'm taking the plunge

[selenay]

I've bought myself 6 months of paid time on Dreamwidth (just as a starter) and I've turned off auto-renew on LJ. The AdBlock Plus plug-in looks like the solution to my "Argh, ads!" issues when paid time runs out.

I'm finally following the flock and migrating my journal to Dreamwidth. Although, obviously, I'll continue to cross-post to LJ and remain undecided about whether I'll be turning off comments on LJ or not. Anyone violently object to me keeping all comments on DW, bearing in mind that you can use your LJ as an OpenID if you don't want a DW account?

Thus, when this post is done, I shall be putting my LJ into the queue to import my content and we'll see how it goes.

In other news, I finally got my domain renewed (phew!) despite the best attempts of Register.com to drive me insane and it's been the kind of day where I had a major production issues solved before 9am. Tonight I shall watch last week's Glee and veg out like the best zombiefied person ever.

Comments

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I am less likely to comment on DW on LJ. *shrugs* I do have a DW account, but I prefer to comment on LJ.

[selenay]

Looks like I'll be able to merge comments from here over to DW, so I'll leave commenting enabled on LJ :-)

[alyse]

I may be wrong, but I'm sure that one of the links I was poking around yesterday - the new to DW from LJ post (check my memories on DW) - said something like if you choose to import comments later (after you've crossposted), it will amalgamate comments into DW, i.e. only import those comments that aren't already on DW.

Presumably that means that even if you do crosspost, you can later choose to import comments and have any comments left on the LJ post imported into the equivalent DW post so they're all in one place.

Haven't tried it myself yet, though, so I can't say for certain it works like that. Since comments have unique ids, and since DW obviously remembers the itemid of the entries it cross posts to other sites (since editing an entry on DW also edits them on the other sites it's crossposted to), it would make sense if they could isolate those comments that aren't on DW and just copy them across.

But as always - not a geek ::g::

[selenay]

Oooh, now I'll have to have a play with that. If it's the case, then I will happily keep comments turned on over here and merge them every couple of weeks. That would work for me :-)

[alyse]

HA! Found it.

Firefox history is occasionally a god send, especially as the post was on LJ not DW ::g::

[selenay]

Perfect! You are a lovely, lovely human being. And I am now completely DW-ified :-)

[gmul.livejournal.com]

Perhaps some sort of linky thing to find you with? I'm sure I could work it out at a pinch but...

[selenay]

http://selenay.dreamwidth.org/

I've put a link in my profile as well and I've turned on the thingy to post a footer to each entry with the DW details. So it should all be easy and I'll merge the comments from here to DW every couple of weeks.

They really did think of everything to make migrating easy!

[destina.livejournal.com]

Anyone violently object to me keeping all comments on DW, bearing in mind that you can use your LJ as an OpenID if you don't want a DW account?

I don't comment on DW, and as I posted about a few weeks ago, I remove journals from my flist when comments are closed on crossposts. Each person has to do what she feels works best for her fannishly in terms of platform and so forth, and consolidating comments, so it's all good - if that's how you decide to work this for yourself, I'll just wish you well. :)

[paranoidangel]

Because I read from RSS feeds, not the site itself, I'll happily read (and therefore comment) in whichever place you'd prefer. The proviso being that if you want it to be DW you've gone and changed the RSS feed to show the cut text (the default is to show up to the cut text and then have a link, which creates more work for me to read).