Posting access

[boji]

In light of the current LJ-fail, can anyone tell me if it's possible to crosspost so my Dreamwith posts are public and my Livejournal ones f-locked?

I'm wondering if I can do this in one-step, so to speak, rather than having to post access-locked and then unlock the post here.

ETA: Sorted. Thank you all for your replies.

Comments

[jenett]

If you set the default protection level on your LiveJournal to friends-lock, it will pick the default for the site, rather than the post.

(I do that with mine: the DW defaults public, LJ defaults friends-locked)

However, note that if you edit the access level on the DW side once it's posted, the LJ side will pick it up. (I just tested with a post that's locked here: edit it to public here, LJ edits to public too. Protect it, LJ picks up the protection again.) It won't do this for content edits, though, just things that touch the access level.

[boji]

It won't do this for content edits, though, just things that touch the access level.

This rocks my world. I love the coding genius behind this site. Thank you for the heads-up.

[holyschist]

It won't do this for content edits, though, just things that touch the access level.

I'm not sure what you mean here: I have my LJ default to flocked, and if I post a public post on DW, I will get

DW-public
LJ-friends

If I then edit the public DW post solely to fix a typo, I will get

DW-public
LJ-public

And have to manually edit the LJ post back to friends. This is how it is intended to work, and really the only way it can work coding-wise, I think, because of how the differential access works.

Editing just tags on the DW post will not affect the LJ post security, or the LJ post's tags.

[phoenixsong]

I've had the same issue.

[holyschist]

It sounds like they ARE working on a way to fix this.

[glinda]

If you set your default security status on lj to f-locked and on dw to public then when you cross-post it should (I say should because it normally works but sometimes randomly doesn't so you might want to watch that) respect the privacy settings accordingly.

[boji]

Thank you. Am delighted to hear this.

[jumpuphigh]

If you do as the previous two commenters mentioned and change your LJ settings to friends-lock, your posts here will respect the settings you set while posting while LJ will be friends-lock. However, if you make any edits to a post on DW that is not locked, your LJ settings will change accordingly. When I was cross-posting, how I avoided that was by forcing myself to check the cross-post box every time I wanted to cross-post. Then, it didn't happen accidentally when I went back to edit something here for a spelling error.

[boji]

However, if you make any edits to a post on DW that is not locked, your LJ settings will change accordingly. When I was cross-posting, how I avoided that was by forcing myself to check the cross-post box every time I wanted to cross-post.

Thank you for letting me know.

I'll have to check it out because jenett seems to contradict you above on this point specifically. But, if you're right I imagine that not setting crosspost as default will help.

[jumpuphigh]

I just double-checked to see if that behaviour had changed since I stopped cross-posting. It has not. If you edit a post on DW that has access set to "Everyone", your LJ post will be updated to have the same level of access.

ETA: The coding to change this has been written but has not been committed. Expect the behaviour to change at some point in the future. dw_news publishes the link to codes committed if you want to watch for when it goes into effect.

[boji]

Thank you for checking this out for me. I appreciate it.

[ursamajor]

jennett and glinda have already got you on the post-public-to-Dreamwidth-but-flocked-to-LJ thing (I do it too!), so I'll just say welcome! :)

[boji]

Thanks grin I've actually been here for a while but was mainly using the crossposter (which is sublime) while doing little else and still 'living' on LJ.

Now - boy has this changed. Today I opened up my reading list before my f-list and celebrated that large swathes of it now mirror.

[rydra_wong]

A possibly useful idea -- I created a reading filter on LJ that only includes the people who aren't cross-posting from DW, and read that as my default. It works well and means I don't miss things amid a sea of mirrored posts.

(It's also amazing how small the filter has become now.)

[boji]

It's also amazing how small the filter has become now.

I think that depends on the fandom, among other things, but I live in hope. Once I'm sure that most posts are being mirrored then yes, I'll be pulling together a filter. Hopefully mine will shrink daily too.

[florentinescot]

Thanks for this question. I didn't even know that this group was here until I was poking around and clicked *network* and this was one of the things that showed up.

Awesome.

Done and done.