Dreamwidth Questions

[lettered]

Is it possible to subscribe to LJs on DW if the LJ user has not created an Open ID? That is, I could just read all the journals I'm interested in just by reading my circle on DW. I thought the DW people were talking about this at one point, but from what I can see it doesn't exist.

Some DW users cross-post to LJ, but on LJ there's a line at the bottom that says, "read replies/comment on DW here" and there's a link. Do these users go in and edit every LJ entry so it says that? Or is there a way to make it pop up automatically?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Comments

[hl]

As far as I know, you still can't follow lj journals like you would in lj directly. Your best bet is to make feeds for them here, and then subscribe to them--you will be able to read their public entries that way. ('Home -> Read -> Feeds')

The line is made by the crossposter, and you can customize it. It's pretty awesome. (Go 'Home -> Organize -> Account -> Other sites' and you will see how to do it.)

[lettered]

Okay, thanks!

[stultiloquentia]

Is it possible to subscribe to LJs on DW

It's mark's top priority.

line at the bottom that says, "read replies/comment on DW here"

To add to what others have said, soon you'll be able to automate that in both directions -- i.e., the LJ mirror will have a link to DW, and the DW post will have a link to LJ!

Hi! I hope you don't mind getting late answers to things, because I have thoughts about superheroes stewing in my brain. It only LOOKS like next to nobody's reading you over here. :P

[lettered]

No worries! I've finally become disconnected enough from LJ that it doesn't feel like as big a deal to switch over to here. Most of the people who I really like have mirrors here anyway, and maybe it's not such a big deal to create feeds for the ones who haven't moved over yet.

I read another update about how they're working on timed posting--so you can set DW to post something in the future. This is really, really good for me because I get REALLY involved and then I get really uninvolved. I'll write essays and essays and not want to post them all at once so people have time to reply and stuff. You'd think I'd be able to post one, wait a week, and post the next, and just keep going, but somehow I know I won't keep up with myself and so I don't post anything.

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

I still mostly read on LJ, so I can't really answer your first question, but as to the second, yes! You can do that. On DW just go to manage account, then other sites and at the bottom it will say "footer" and you can edit it there. :)

[newredshoes]

Surfing in through friendsfriends, but on the first point, they're definitely still working on it, last I heard!

[rahirah]

1. Not yet, but they're working on it.
2. Yes. Go to your account settings, click on the Other Sites tab, and scroll down to get to the bit where you can edit your crosspost footer.