Crossposting?

[rian_aphasia]

So, I keep hearing that there's a crossposting function here, but haven't heard anything about how to actually do it. I tried searching the FAQ, but couldn't find anything. Could someone fill me in please?

Comments

[phantomjam]

If you go to post an entry, there should be an option that says 'Crosspost this entry' just below all the fields for tagging and setting moods etc, as well as a link saying 'Manage Accounts'; follow that and add the details of the journal you want to crosspost to and you should be all set.

[rian_aphasia]

Thanks!

[calime]

You need to go to Account settings and add sites you want to crosspost to from the tab Other sites ( you can add up to five). Then you can also set whether you want to crosspost to these by default and whether or not to disable comments elsewhere. After that, whenever you post, the form will have the other sites listed at the bottom of the page, with the possibility to tick/untick the crosspost box.

[rian_aphasia]

Thank you.

[dunmurderin]

When I go to my Other Sites tab and click on the Add New Account button, it just refreshes the page and doesn't give me any options for adding new accounts. Is there a bug or am I doing something wrong?

[calime]

I recall someone else had this problem too, I think it is a bug - from what I readfrom bone's journal comments here, it might either be an IE problem, or alternatively you can try to go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/externalaccount.bml and try from there.

[shalom]

Thank you! Your link worked, although I could not get the "Add New Account" button to work/open a window when I tried to add the LJ account from the link in the bottom of a post.

[scrollgirl]

OMG THANK YOU! I'd kept refreshing that page and the Add New Account button just wouldn't work. That link worked perfectly though.

[dunmurderin]

That worked, but it's only letting me do one account -- is that all that's allowed for free accounts?

[calime]

I have no idea about that - as I wanted to import my LJ, I upgraded to the premium level before doing the adding of the accounts. You can upgrade to paid/premium level for free during the closed beta phase and try out stuff, they'll downgrade everyone back to the free account come open beta on April 30th (but what you've done remains :)), that's my understanding.

[beck_liz]

Yes - only one account per free user. If you go here you can temporarily upgrade your account to a paid one, but it goes away when open beta goes live on April 30. At which point if you still want a paid account, you'll have to actually pay for it. :-) Paid accounts can add up to 5 other services for crosposting, although I believe at this time they must be LJ or LJ clones like Insanejournal or Deadjournal.

[dunmurderin]

so, if I upgrade and then the account goes back to free once open beta starts, can I still crosspost to multiple accounts or does the ability go away?

[beck_liz]

That one I'm not sure of. Likely, though. I know that if you add a bunch of icons, you'll get dropped back to only 6 (your other icons will still be there, you just won't be able to access them unless you upgrade). It's probably the same sort of thing for this.

[samuraikisses]

Thank you so much for the link. I thought I was going nuts, since I was clicking that "Add New Account" button like it was giving away money and nothing was happenening.

[princessofgeeks]

I'm glad you asked this; I found the feature all right, but I'm wondering if anyone knows what I'm supposed to type in on the Dreamwidth side to make the LJ cut work on the LJ side? Or if that is not available quite yet?

[rahirah]

I believe that's not working yet.

[princessofgeeks]

thank you.