If you are crossposting from Dreamwidth to Livejournal

[andrewducker]

If you are crossposting from Dreamwidth to Livejournal then you might want people reading on LJ to know that there are comments waiting for them on the DW side.

The best way to do this is to go here, and place something like the following into the "Footer" box:

<hr>
<A href="%%url%%">Original post on Dreamwidth</A> - there are %%comment_image%% comments there.

This will provide a footer like the one at the bottom of this post (if you're reading it on LJ), and means that when someone comments on DW the LJ readers can come over to see what it is.

You can leave the second box blank, unless you're disabling the comments on LJ.

Comments

[darkoshi]

I debated including that when I set up cross-posting. It seems useful, but most of the time I have zero comments on DW, and I felt that having "0 comments" show up a lot might bother me... also, there isn't a way of showing how many LJ comments there are from the DW side (when the post originates from DW), so it would be imbalanced. Still debating it.

[pseudomonas]

You can, if you like, omit the bit about message count.

[darkoshi]

Yes, that's how I have it now. I'd prefer to hide the whole part about comments when there are no comments, but to display it when there are comments. It's a minor issue though, and don't feel it would be worth the effort it would take for someone to implement it.

[matgb]

there isn't a way of showing how many LJ comments there are from the DW side

This is because LJ refuses to even consider the idea, despite it obviously driving traffic to them from elsewhere.

I found when I reworded my Xpost text a bit that commenting went up significantly, I currently have commenting on LJ tightly controlled but open on DW, if you directly encourage people to switch many will.

[darkoshi]

I like your approach. I think I'll update the wording on my crosspost text to be similar to yours.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I wonder if you can advise me on style: I'm having trouble finding a DW style as plain as my own. Any suggestions?

[andrewducker]

Well, I think this is the first time someone has asked me for advice on style :->

If you wander here:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/
and do a search for "Neutral Good" then you'll see my style, which is about as bland as you can get!

[matgb]

You could try the "Zesty" theme, which some like, but I'd recommend reducing the font size a bit.

I, personally, loath that sort of setup, but I know more'n a few prefer it, so I plan, when I get the willpower, to do a few very simple ones that're wide and column free. Essentially, there's a big pool of volunteers that like playing with themes, I'm, technically, one of them.

Give us a spec and it's doable, the DW styling system is a lot more flexible than LJs when you understand it, so most things are doable.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

I seem to have finally sorted it thanks to Andrew's advice and a bit of twiddling. Funny that so many people think grey is a good colour for ink, despite two thousand years of default to black.