Dreamwidth cross-posting

[dbskyler]

Okay, I am trying out cross-posting from Dreamwidth. Is this working? Hello?

Not sure how much cross-posting I will be doing though, to be honest. I guess it will depend upon how easy this is (does look pretty easy so far), and how much time I end up spending on Dreamwidth vs. LJ. From what I can tell, the LJ Doctor Who communities seem to be far more active. Anyone know any communities like sarahjane_fic and doctoreleven on Dreamwidth?

Comments

[brewsternorth]

Further to my comment at LJ:

I don't know if there might be some more specialized Who-fandom comms that have started up recently. You could try an interest search - apparently the DW Site Search is fairly powerful - and if you strike out there, try create_my_comm and see if there's enough common interest to set up comms for Eleventy and SJA fans over here based on doctoreleven and sarahjane_fic.

[primsong]

I believe it will be what we make it - and to that end I've been in communication with mad_jaks about a parallel dw100 here, have asked about the possibility of a calufrax comm here and am now contemplating a sister site for fic_rush. :-) There's a ton of fans who are still busy rearranging their new furniture and fiddling around with their new digs here, I think it will only grow as we find out stride.

[dbskyler]

Thanks for the suggestions! Searching for "doctor who" interest turns up doctorwho, doctor_who and some torchwood comms, plus others that seem to never have been updated. doctorwho appears to be the most active.

I might try to instigate a similar comm to sarahjane_fic, we'll see.

(And damn it, I tried to make those comm links, i.e. the DW equivalent of "lj user = doctorwho", but it's not working. I thought that the code was the same as on LJ, except one just had to type "user" instead of "lj user". But obviously I'm doing something wrong, so I reverted back to plain text to get rid of the [Unknown site tag]s that showed up in my preview.)

[dbskyler]

I agree, the solution to not enough communities / not enough active communities is to start making and posting in them. I'm not sure about mirroring fic_rush, though -- for that, everyone really does have to be at the same place at the same time. Unless you're talking about holding fic_rush more often, sometimes on LJ and sometimes over here?

[primsong]

Oh certainly - not in a way that would be to 'compete', but the concept may be applied in some other way or at some other time is all I was thinking. Unless everyone interested just comes over to DW (hey, I can be hopeful - I'm an optimist!). ;-)

[brewsternorth]

Ah! It's user name=(name of comm). I think there's a good newbie guide linked from the official Dreamwidth FAQ that mentions this and a few other markup changes.

(popping in randomly...)

[deird1]

I'm not in any Doctor Who comms here, but the Latest Things will link to any public entries tagged with "Doctor Who" - and there's usually quite a lot of them.

That might be a good way for you to discover the more active parts of the Dreamwidth fandom.

Re: (popping in randomly...)

[dbskyler]

That looks like an interesting tool. Thanks!

[dbskyler]

Aha, thank you!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

O hai!

Yeah, sluggish communities are a problem on DWth at the moment. I'd love to see an "Import Community" tool, though I imagine it'd be a heck of a lot more involved than their (very successful) "import journal" tool. The only Whoey comm I know of on my rlist is "doctorwho"

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Works fine!

[tempestas-inu.livejournal.com]

Yay for Crossposting!

As for dreamwidth.... I've searched around and as far as I know doctorwho is the only dreamwidth comm I could really find, and even then that one is barely active. There *are* probably other communities floating around though. You probably have to wait more, dreamwidth may be gaining members but lj is still far more populated and therefore more active.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the only comm I could find too. Well, room for growth . . .

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

It was easy, too! It feels like magic in a way. The internet is cool. We should buy the internet a fez.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

It seems odd that doctorwho would be the only comm, but it might be. I guess that means they won't object if I start posting SJA stuff there round about oh, say, October? :D

I have a feeling I'll still be hanging out mostly on LJ, but it's nice to have a little Dreamwidth camp.

[shadowturquoise.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I've seen others on my flist crosspost from Dreamwidth and there is usually a little tagline in italics that says something like "Originally posted on Dreamwidth". I wonder why yours doesn't have that???

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

It doesn't have it because I chose not to display it. I think it makes sense to have that tagline if you're only allowing comments over on Dreamwidth, but I see no reason to constantly advertise where you're posting from. I've posted this here on LJ, you can comment here on LJ, so does it matter that I posted using Dreamwidth's software, and that there's another copy of the post over there? I don't know, I suppose to some people it matters, but personally I don't quite get the point of the tagline.

[clocketpatch]

I always figured it was so people could follow the conversation/comments over there if they wanted to? But it doesn't really matter in the end.

The cross-posting works fine.

The lack of communities is one of the only things really holding me back now I think; most of my F'list is migrating. I guess as more of us go over there more communities will show up.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I always figured it was so people could follow the conversation/comments over there if they wanted to?

Oh, good point, I hadn't thought of that. Hmm. Maybe I'll put the tagline back in, or a customized version of it.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Well as you can see, the post HERE worked, at least...

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Yep, it worked in both places.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Good, good...