Thought Repository

CrossPosting to LiveJournal


You asked for it and you got it! Most of my friends use LiveJournal and only check the blogs they can read on their friends pages. I have had a LiveJournal account for a while but I haven't used it. My friends suggested that I should, or at least generate an RSS feed for them to syndicate. In the past I used my custom system because I hadn't intended it to be blog-like. It wasn't supposed to be like this but that's what it evolved into. It might not be what I want but it is what I can actually maintain, so better than nothing. Anyway, now that they are so similar, why don't I use LiveJournal? Well, I'm pretty invested in my system since I spent so much time creating it. It integrates with my other sites nicely and I can do what I want with it if I want to change it later. But I decide to use LiveJournal also. After much work, my website now knows how to crosspost all of these entries to my LiveJournal. I can't garuantee everything will work perfectly all the time, but it should be good enough. I even have comments made on either site synced so you can comment wherever you'd like. Maybe people will comment now. I also now support ljcut and ljuser tags. All my old posts are even moved over so check it out. [info]sparkyb

Comments

What happens when I comment here?

Mike W — 8/07/2005 08:13 pm

Crossposted from LiveJournal:

Sparky: this comment should be posted as [info]queiss. I wonder if OpenID could make this happen somehow.

[info]harryh — 8/08/2005 03:19 am

Crossposted from LiveJournal:

so there's 2 comments. the one weiss posted here will show up on my site as [info]queiss. The one he posted on my site he didn't post as [info]queiss or event as queiss.livejournal.com. Right now all comments are anonymous (+ name). Eventually I may support OpenID commenting. Even if I did though, I still have to post all comments as [info]http://sparkyb.net/thoughts/ because I don't have permission on LJ as anyone else. Of course it would have the appropriate link where the "Mike W" is now. For now I recommend that people w/ LJ accounts comment on LJ that way they get their real identity (my site supports them but doesn't authenticate them)

Also comment ordering may inconsistant for 3 reasons. 1) I can't control the date/order when I crosspost a comment to LJ. 2) my site doesn't support threading like LJ. 3) my site keeps correct time (in my timezone) but although I correct to my timezone for the time LJ gives me, LJ's date/times for comments are all wrong and that's their bug.

[info]sparkyb — 8/08/2005 04:08 am

Crossposted from LiveJournal:

Well done. That's super cool.

[info]adereth — 8/08/2005 05:29 am