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[vass]

Ridiculously nooby question: does the crossposter work yet? I'm seeing people crosspost to their LJs and DWs, but I'm not sure if they're doing it by hand or what. Also, I suspect some of them are using Semagic, which as an Ubuntu user I can't have.

LJ Friends page

[batrachian]

I like Dreamwidth, I like the concept, the ideas, and everything about it. However, a LARGE number of my friends use exclusively LJ. Is there a way to somehow condense that friends page into the DW reading page, so that I don't miss stuff?

Tutorial: Installing Mixit Themes on Dreamwidth

[grrliz]

jennem and I have collaborated on a tutorial on how to install LiveJournal's Mixit themes on your Dreamwidth journal. Ironically, it's posted at LiveJournal so you'll have to head on over there to check it out. Hopefully this will help some people out!

(If you have questions, please post them over there as we're trying to keep all the questions in one place to avoid having to duplicate answers.)

Importing Smooth Sailing?

[liz_marcs]

Hello,

I've followed the directions several times.

I can get the journal "look" right, however, when I go to comments on any entry, the icons and user names of the people commenting on that entry are completely stripped out, leaving only the comments themselves.

Really. It's making me bang my head against the wall at this point. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I've followed directions from here and here to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

switching from core1 to core2

[highlander_ii]

If you have imported a style from LJ using core1 and would like to change it over to core2 so that you can utilize all of the spiffy new functionality that the styles team have been putting together, there are a few things that you may/will need to do/know:

The styles team has made changes to and standardized lots of things in the base styles set-up. I don't know what all of them are, but the lovely niqaeli has but together a 'quick and dirty' how-to for making some of the necessary changes:

That can be found HERE. *However* be sure to note afuna's comment to that entry about some further code changes (all of which should be done by now, or going in today afaik), so things may 'break' again.

aveleh has also put together another list of 'things that might need changing' HERE at dw_styles (which is a v. good comm to follow if you want to keep up with what the styles team is working on *g*).

eta: grrliz has put together a tutorial for importing Mixit Themes HERE - NOTE that this uses core1, so if you'd like to use core2, you may still have to follow the steps listed above.


If anyone has any other links/tips for switching styles from core1 to core2 - please add to the comments!

G Mail Threading

[zvi]

I know a lot of people get their dreamwidth comments sent to gmail and a lot of us are unhappy that the threading is not the relatively simple issue it is on LJ.

The only workaround for the issue at the moment is to add subject lines to your comments. That doesn't make the threading work completely right, but at least it means you won't have 40 message 'conversations' from 10 or 12 different DW entries.

If you can't think of a subject line, why not just repeat the subject line of the entry you're reading? If the entry you're reading also does not have a subject line, just repeat the first line of your comment.

I've been trying it for the past couple of days, and it is better. (Not perfect, because I haven't gotten in the habit 100% yet.) But it's better.

Importing styles

[cesy]

See http://inarticulate.dreamwidth.org/933.html for another method of importing styles.