I have discovered something disturbing
Aug. 20th, 2011 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillI was poking through my LJ which I generate by crossposting from Dreamwidth. (Livejournal has more readers but I trust Dreamwidth not to shut down without warning.) And I discovered that some of my posts have probably not been showing up on people's friendslists. And doggone it, it's some of my Most Important Posts to boot.
See I have been putting up Alice Day posts of (usually) new songs, trying for one every two weeks, though that hasn't always worked out. And since making the mp3 for the Alice Day post is the kind of thing that sometimes requires a few tries and some computer fiddling, I don't like to put off doing that until the last minute, so I have been making the post ahead of time, and front-dating it (putting a 2012 date on it so it will stay at the top of my journal and be easy to find) and making it private to me. When it's ready to show the world (and time for an Alice Day post) I change the date to today, and the post to viewable by everybody, and unclick the "don't show on reading pages; allows dating out of order" box.
Now "date out of order" on DW keeps things off lists, like other people's friendslist and so on. I suppose this is so that, if I had an out of order post that was public, it doesn't perpetually show up at the top of everyone's reading, because people would get pretty bored with that after the fifth or sixth day. And that propagates to LJ in some way and does the same thing there.
Except on LJ the box is labeled "date out of order" and apparently when I unclick the box on DW it does not propagate to LJ. If "date out of order" does the same thing on LJ that it does on DW, some of my Alice Day posts have not been showing up to LJ readers unless they go to the effort of actually clicking on my name and reading just my LJ.
This disturbs me because I worked hard on those songs and would like people who are interested to be able to see them.
I think I have fixed it, but I guess every time I modify the date on a DW post I will have to go over to LJ and manually unclick the out of order box. At least I know now.
And in the meantime if you think you missed something, the "new song" tag should bring up all the Alice Day posts.
See I have been putting up Alice Day posts of (usually) new songs, trying for one every two weeks, though that hasn't always worked out. And since making the mp3 for the Alice Day post is the kind of thing that sometimes requires a few tries and some computer fiddling, I don't like to put off doing that until the last minute, so I have been making the post ahead of time, and front-dating it (putting a 2012 date on it so it will stay at the top of my journal and be easy to find) and making it private to me. When it's ready to show the world (and time for an Alice Day post) I change the date to today, and the post to viewable by everybody, and unclick the "don't show on reading pages; allows dating out of order" box.
Now "date out of order" on DW keeps things off lists, like other people's friendslist and so on. I suppose this is so that, if I had an out of order post that was public, it doesn't perpetually show up at the top of everyone's reading, because people would get pretty bored with that after the fifth or sixth day. And that propagates to LJ in some way and does the same thing there.
Except on LJ the box is labeled "date out of order" and apparently when I unclick the box on DW it does not propagate to LJ. If "date out of order" does the same thing on LJ that it does on DW, some of my Alice Day posts have not been showing up to LJ readers unless they go to the effort of actually clicking on my name and reading just my LJ.
This disturbs me because I worked hard on those songs and would like people who are interested to be able to see them.
I think I have fixed it, but I guess every time I modify the date on a DW post I will have to go over to LJ and manually unclick the out of order box. At least I know now.
And in the meantime if you think you missed something, the "new song" tag should bring up all the Alice Day posts.
