Yeah, it's quite inflexible.. The advantage of Wordpress is that if you run it yourself, you control the entire database structure that puts it together, so you can really do whatever you want. You can also edit the text of comments people have left... ;o)
I'm building all this from scratch. The stuff in AMA was designed in a pretty different way.. The goal in AMA was that as soon as possible after a comment was posted, that fact would be recorded and a load of data would be downloaded. Emphasis was very much on working out how best to get hold of that data ASAP.
So in that case, the way in which my database knew an entry had been posted was because AMA was structured in order to notify it. It was all very reactive. It was crucial to the system that if I went back and posted a comment on a two-year-old post, that should be recorded.
In the case of what I'm doing here, I have to start from scratch and work out how best to get hold of all the data in one go, without worrying too much about capturing live data. So it's going in steps:
It was something that would have been really handy in AMA, and its absence stood out at the time.
Sadly, the way to do it involves using a very poorly documented feature, which made it kind of tricky. 'twas a shame, knowing what I do now, I could have made the whole thing much better..
Do you expect any weird formatting issues to come of this? Or are your entries generally clean enough to make an elegant transfer?
I don't expect any formatting issues whatsoever. The great thing about LJ is that the use of friends pages etc. means that only utter cretins put fancy formatting into their posts, and I'm not one of those. So I don't have any entries where I hardcoded a pink font colour into the entry itself, on account of how anybody whose friends page has a pink background would therefore be unable to see it. The format promotes clean formatting, so it should all be fine. Probably.
Well, I can subscribe to your blog via RSS, yeah?I'll probably have something that crossposts entries or similar - I wouldn't want to abandon my audience
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I'm building all this from scratch. The stuff in AMA was designed in a pretty different way.. The goal in AMA was that as soon as possible after a comment was posted, that fact would be recorded and a load of data would be downloaded. Emphasis was very much on working out how best to get hold of that data ASAP.
So in that case, the way in which my database knew an entry had been posted was because AMA was structured in order to notify it. It was all very reactive. It was crucial to the system that if I went back and posted a comment on a two-year-old post, that should be recorded.
In the case of what I'm doing here, I have to start from scratch and work out how best to get hold of all the data in one go, without worrying too much about capturing live data. So it's going in steps:
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Sadly, the way to do it involves using a very poorly documented feature, which made it kind of tricky. 'twas a shame, knowing what I do now, I could have made the whole thing much better..
Do you expect any weird formatting issues to come of this? Or are your entries generally clean enough to make an elegant transfer?
I don't expect any formatting issues whatsoever. The great thing about LJ is that the use of friends pages etc. means that only utter cretins put fancy formatting into their posts, and I'm not one of those. So I don't have any entries where I hardcoded a pink font colour into the entry itself, on account of how anybody whose friends page has a pink background would therefore be unable to see it. The format promotes clean formatting, so it should all be fine. Probably.
Well, I can subscribe to your blog via RSS, yeah?I'll probably have something that crossposts entries or similar - I wouldn't want to abandon my audience ( ... )
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