Public vs Friends?

[simmiejoy]

LJ question for y'all out there.

I changed the default on my LJ entries to be Friends quite some time ago.

I cannot seem to choose an individual entry to be Public --

Those of you that have done the same, have you encountered this?

Simmie

Comments

[dagdas_nemain]

Yes.

My default has been friends only forever.

Just recently, I tried to make a public post
and did not have the option to do so.

If you find out WHY LJ is (not) working this way,
please let me know.

[simmiejoy]

See my response to tkil.....

"edit entry"?

[tkil]

I don't have "friends only" as my default, but when I'm viewing a single entry, I can use the edit button (the pencil icon); at the bottom of the next screen, there's a box that says "show this entry to:". Does that not show up for you?

Re: "edit entry"?

[simmiejoy]

I had tried to do the edit entry and pick Public from "show this entry to" before, but the Public option was grayed out and it didn't take.

I just now went in and can change it to Public, which I did with this entry.

Odd.

Dagdas_Nemain, is yours now working like mine?

[ex_nan58]

When I set up my journal I initially tried to set it to private and figured I could then make any entries that I wanted to become public entries but I ran into the same problem you did. I had to just set the default to public and then change the settings to some of my entries on an individual basis. I never could make it work the other way.

[simmiejoy]

What I found out (thanks to LJ-er tkil) was that if you save the entry, wait a bit, and then go back and EDIT the entry, you can change a Defaulted Friends Only journal to have the edited entry be Public, with no problem.

Hopefully that'll work for you as well.

Simmie