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.