Dreamwidth - the good news...

[birguslatro]

I opened the account last weekend, and had a bit of an explore then, but haven't been able to get back to it till now. So, what's good...

Crossposting from DW to LJ, as just proved, seems to work very well. (I doubt an edit on DW will show up on LJ though, but that's probably for the best. (Later: I was wrong - an edit on DW will show up in LJ - as long as the LJ post hasn't been edited.))

Importing LJ into DW. You can do it from within DW, and it took me less than ten minutes.

Friends List. Called a Circle and it's been split into those you subscribe to and those you grant access to read your journal. An excellent idea.

You can add non-DW people to your Circle, to both read and grant access to your journal. (Via OpenID.) And you'll note I've given some of you access... And others not, due to a glitch in the system that didn't allow names with underlines in them to be accepted. (Later: replacing the underlines with dashes fixes this.) Though one of you were not allowed even without an underline. So hiccups there. (And some of you are not there as I know you're already on DW and I'll be, err, Circling?, ???, you real soon now!)

Tags can now have: tag:subtag

And no one's spam-circled me yet and there's no adverts!

The bad news, such as it is, gets its own post too - later. But it's not too bad, is mostly fixable or already planned to be fixed, and there's much more to love about DJ than LJ in its current state. Not least that those in charge are working for you and not their advertisers.

Comments

[flick]

- edits to the DW post will go through to the LJ post, unless you've edited the LJ post in the mean time (which breaks the connection).
- user names with an underscore: change it to a dash and it will work.
- if you leave your 'problems with DW' posts (eg the one about not being able to add and LJ community) public, someone from DW will likely wander by and tell you the answer / whether it's planned - they're very good like that.
- I think that the latest status is that xposts with filters don't work - the LJ version will be the next level of security up. They were working on it, though, so it might have happened.

[birguslatro]

"user names with an underscore: change it to a dash and it will work."

Ah - will try that.

I have someone on my LJ FL who's a DW worker who I've, err, Circled, (well, is there a better term?), so assuming they look back through my DW, they'll see those comments. Which are why some go into a bit of detail.

Xpost with a filter worked when I tried it, but it may not be industrial strength yet, of course.

[birguslatro]

From here...

http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/7298.html

"The big improvement this week that people should notice: the crossposter will now recognize custom friend groups on the remote site."

So, it's official!