“I can see clearly now, the rain is gone…”
everyday glory, science and technology February 26th, 2008Tuesday – 26 February 2008
I woke up this morning and there was the sun. The actual, honest-to-goodness sun. And there was hardly any haze obscuring the view of the valley. Win-Win.
Clarity is a good thing.
And, in the interest of clarity, it has come to my attention that I apparently need to make a few points about the upcoming move of commenting from LiveJournal to Random Access:
- While I like the community of friends and interests on LiveJournal, I wanted to host my blog on my site. To that end, I have been using WordPress as my primary blog tool/repository since August of 2006.
- After I switched to WP, I found a plug-in that allows my posts to be automatically crossposted to LJ, eliminating a need to cut-and-paste or forget/neglect to make sure that a post made it from Blog A to Blog B.
- I was also able to use the LJ export function to export older posts into XML and a WordPress function to import the posts into Random Access.
- Neither the export nor import function transfered the comments for the older posts.
- The inherent problem that I found was that this split comments between the two sites – if someone posted a comment on LJ, I had to check it there; if it was on Random Access, I had to check it there.
So, that brings us to the past month or two. After some deliberation – and a few chats with
I was recently asked why I assumed that some people ever look at the post on RA, if it is mirrored on LiveJournal. Valid question. My answer: I had not made such an assumption. I just decided that I wanted to have things “in one place.” To that end, I’m moving commenting off of LJ and on to Random Access.
What does this mean?
- There will no longer be a link for commenting on my posts in LiveJournal.
- In the “Originally posted at Random Access” banner at the top of each post, there will be a link to the comments page on Random Access.
- Due to some issues with spam/spambots, I “locked” commenting to authorized users only…. so, the first time (ONLY) that you move to RA to comment, you’ll have to “sign in.” After that, it’s click-and-comment.
If anyone decides to fore go commenting on future posts after 29 February 2008 because of the change, I understand, but I’d like to say “Thank you,” in advance, to those of you who are willing to accommodate my idiosyncrasy.
Namaste.
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February 26th, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Yay! I signed up so I can comment here now.