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Proof DW is made of awesome - asked a question in the maintenance comm about importing new comments and got a reply 6 minutes later.
HOW AWESOME IS THAT!!!
My question: I have a question - cross-posting to lj means that I have comments made there on posts that I'd like to import to my journal here. I imported my whole journal when I first signed up. Is there a way to import just the comments that are missing or will an import copy across everything, thus doubling up on comments already here?
The reply was: from denise.
If you start another import, it will only bring in new content. (Also, if you edited anything on LJ, like editing an entry or adding new tags, etc, it will not pick up the changes: we did it that way to prevent running into conflicts where the content differs on LJ and DW and we didn't know which one was the more recent version that should be kept.) Any new comments will just appear on the right entry, any new entries will be slotted in. (And if you used the crossposter to crosspost to the other site from DW, it is smart enough to not duplicate entries, and it will put any comments on the remote site's version of the entry onto the DW-native site. This only works if you used the DW crossposter instead of crossposting manually, though.)
Just thought I'd share for anyone wondering the same thing.
HOW AWESOME IS THAT!!!
My question: I have a question - cross-posting to lj means that I have comments made there on posts that I'd like to import to my journal here. I imported my whole journal when I first signed up. Is there a way to import just the comments that are missing or will an import copy across everything, thus doubling up on comments already here?
The reply was: from denise.
If you start another import, it will only bring in new content. (Also, if you edited anything on LJ, like editing an entry or adding new tags, etc, it will not pick up the changes: we did it that way to prevent running into conflicts where the content differs on LJ and DW and we didn't know which one was the more recent version that should be kept.) Any new comments will just appear on the right entry, any new entries will be slotted in. (And if you used the crossposter to crosspost to the other site from DW, it is smart enough to not duplicate entries, and it will put any comments on the remote site's version of the entry onto the DW-native site. This only works if you used the DW crossposter instead of crossposting manually, though.)
Just thought I'd share for anyone wondering the same thing.
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