Pondering again
Nov. 1st, 2010 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayI am, yet again, pondering whether to transfer my posts from LJ over to Dreamwidth and use that as my main posting platform. I could then put my LJ onto the unpaid service and pay DW instead (I need my icons!), with the advantage that I'd be sending my money to an organisation who's goals and philosophy I agree with rather than a money-grubbing corporation out to make a buck off everything I do.
Except...
A lot of the journals I follow on LJ aren't over here yet and giving up my paid status on LJ would mean ads. I hate ads.
Argh! I've been going back and forth on this one for months with no resolution. I can't justify paying for both, but I hate ads enough to dislike doing my LJ-reading with them right there. And if I'm using DW as my main posting platform, I want to support their work by having a paid account. Watch me continue to be indecisive :-(
In other news, I wrote and didn't post four things last week. I probably need to get better and finishing posts and posting them. Otherwise the entire debate in the first three paragraphs of this is pointless :-)
Except...
A lot of the journals I follow on LJ aren't over here yet and giving up my paid status on LJ would mean ads. I hate ads.
Argh! I've been going back and forth on this one for months with no resolution. I can't justify paying for both, but I hate ads enough to dislike doing my LJ-reading with them right there. And if I'm using DW as my main posting platform, I want to support their work by having a paid account. Watch me continue to be indecisive :-(
In other news, I wrote and didn't post four things last week. I probably need to get better and finishing posts and posting them. Otherwise the entire debate in the first three paragraphs of this is pointless :-)
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Date: 2010-11-01 09:41 pm (UTC)If you have crossposting enabled, which involves some conduit wizardry, and you set it up to pull your flist from LJ into DW, they're working on basically letting you see those posts with your LJ ID, and the DW posts with your DW ID. I am not a tech so I don't know how it will work, but basically you'll be able to see posts that are locked on LJ as long as your LJ ID has access to them.
For commenting, however, I presume that if you click on the comment button and it takes you to LJ to comment, you'll have access to that post to comment with your LJ ID. If you want to comment with your DW ID instead, it will have to have been given access to that locked post in its own right, or you won't be able to see it to comment on it when you switch IDs.
Does that make sense?
Like I said, it's one of the key things they're working on, but how it's going to work is a mystery.
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Date: 2010-11-01 10:07 pm (UTC)