Comments | tricolora: Bearing in mind LJ formatting is a pain...

tricolora

Bearing in mind LJ formatting is a pain...

Feb 27, 2008 13:25

Both have benefits, obviously. I seem to get more feedback when it's posted to LJ (and I can take the not-review-whore route all I like, I do like feedback.) I find ff.n way easier, since I have to go back and reformat everything for LJ, and momma loves her italics. Is there a special way to post to rich text that I'm missing? Cut/paste makes the ( Read more... )

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almightyhat February 27 2008, 18:50:18 UTC

Post to LJ, cos I have someone I REALLY want to read your stuff who won't look at ff.net at all. (It's all the ads, they are not her friend.) ... Actually, since I'm having trouble getting bookmarked stories to load on ff.net, uh, I vote LJ for me, too.

tricolora February 27 2008, 18:56:52 UTC

And here I got this plus account, complete with ads! I'm tempted to get rid of it, but I do get fifteen icons and free polls, and they don't bother me terribly, plus they don't, ya know, talk at you like the ones on ff.n are wont to do.

I may just post all of Naturalized here and just backdate it, for fear of the deletion off of ff.n if nothing else. I actually don't have Naturalized backed up on my computer. I win!

almightyhat February 27 2008, 18:58:54 UTC

GO BACK UP NATURALIZED CRAZY LADY.

Ahem.

It's something specifically about ff.net's ads. I think she implied there was spyware or something-- which makes sense, since it's my new and improved Spybot that keeps me from seeing a damned thing on ff.net sometimes. LJ's ads don't do it the same way.

tricolora February 27 2008, 19:01:35 UTC

As soon as someone tells me how the magical copy/paste works so I don't have to go back and reformat everything, it shall be done!

I didn't know, I suppose that makes sense. Might explain why ff.n was acting up for Macs there for a couple of weeks. Neither Dwim nor I could upload or review anything, yet all the Windows users seemed to be prancing along in happy land (I had to have calger459 upload "Minstrel Show").

dinogrrrl February 28 2008, 04:51:13 UTC

"The Rich Text editor requires JavaScript, and does not work with some web browsers (such as Opera or Safari). You may be able to use the Rich Text editor by upgrading your browser to the latest version and making sure that JavaScript is enabled. Otherwise, you will either need to use the HTML editor, update your journal using a different browser, or use a downloadable client with similar Rich Text features ( ... )

meirelle February 29 2008, 13:00:20 UTC

I'd read it at either one, but I like the ff.net format better. Plus, I get nifty little "Tricolora has been updated!" emails sent to my inbox, and they make me squeal. I'd totally not be up to date if it wasn't for the emails.

Buuuut, like you said, you can actually have a discussion on LJ.

But this story is good enough that I think you need to post it in both places so nobody misses out. :) I know even I groan at this because I am a lazy bastard, but seriously.

So to sum it up for you: I was no help whatsoever. *evilgrin*

strawberry_smut March 3 2008, 03:31:01 UTC

There's an option in OpenOffice which changes formatted text into html, which is how I do it.

tricolora March 3 2008, 03:47:42 UTC

I figured it out- getting html from firefox makes things much easier, though adding that lj-cut to all that html proved kinda bitchy. But! tis always a work in progress. :)

mmouse15 March 3 2008, 04:58:13 UTC

Hm. You don't really know me, but I look at both LJ and FFN. Preferances?
I like that I get an e-mail from FFN, but that's about all I like. I wade through a TON of crap to get to look at all the stories posted. And I rarely get replies to my comments on FFN. Links are good and nice and make me happy if you're going to just use FFN.
LJ I find much more readable. I had a quick HTML lesson from ravynstoneabbey and haven't looked back. dinogrrrl did give you a pretty good overview of the rich text option, and it works quite well. I also like the back-and-forth commenting on LJ, plus it's easier to collect my links for The Cybertronian. But again, a link would work.
And the LJ FAQs are my best friends for figuring out how to do something. They're very easy to follow.

tricolora March 3 2008, 05:02:33 UTC

I do know you! Well, I know of you, being buddies with some of my buddies at any rate, plus there was that feminist discussion a while back. ;) I decided to go ahead and do both, as I had a pretty solid readership over at ff.n that was not the lj readership at all, but I really like long verbose discussions with the lj crew, so, with a little more effort, we can have both. I figured out my modus operandi 'o totally cheating with the html. :D