LJ Annoyances

[nancylebov]

I just wasted some time trying to make sure that my lj-cut below was working properly before I posted it. It seems that lj-cuts don't show up in the preview.

Another annoyance: there's no good way to keep track of whether people have made new comments, ist there?

Or have I missed some really obvious stuff which would make these annoyances go away?

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

The first, no.

The second...do you have email notification turned on?

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

No, but afaik, that just notifies me of my own comments--it doesn't tell me if someone's commented to one of my older posts and it doesn't help me keep track of discussions in other people's ljs.

I think that what I want is show (or possibly mark) all comments added since [specified time].

Re: notify

[enegim.livejournal.com]

No; notify will indeed send you an email if somebody's commented to one of your older posts, and likewise if somebody's replied to one of your comments in somebody else's LJ.

I don't, however, know of any way to do "show all since". Which would indeed be useful.

[snippy]

Yeah, well, that would be Usenet. This isn't Usenet. For both good and bad values of Usenet.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

You can have lj e-mail you whenever someone replies to your journal or directly to a comment of yours on another journal. Check off "Get message board replies" on your Edit Personal Information page.

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

Beloved, I faunch after your Ganesha icon. It doesn't have a rat in it, but otherwise, it rules!

See, Nancy, LJ can be almost just like an apa! You're right about there being room for other kinds of notification of continued comments, though.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Yours is lovely, too.

[redbird]

I use the Semagic client for most of my posts, and the preview mode there shows the cut tag as a link. When clicked on (in preview) it opens the cut tag.

It also has pull-down menus for, among other things, open and close cut tags, reducing the chance of messing it up. (Paired tags would be handy, though.)

Re: Simple way to test LJ-cuts (and more)

[fixx.livejournal.com]

write your email per normal, LJ-cuts included. After testing with preview to make sure nothing else is wrong, post it but not "public" and not "friends" but "private".

Then look at it for yourself. If you like how it looks, go into

Manage Entries

And change that entry from private to either public or friends as you wish. I have done this myself but instead of changing the post to public, I set it so the only person who can view it is you. That test post also contains some of these instructions.

[bradhicks.livejournal.com]

Preview with cuts: Let me add my voice endorsing Semagic as an offline composing tool.

Email notification: If you've got email notification turned on, here's how it's supposed to work. If somebody replies directly to anything you posted, whether to your journal or as a reply to anything in LiveJournal. Unfortunately, though, if somebody replies to something that somebody else posted, even if that thread started in your journal, that you don't get notified about. For example:

• Original journal entry by you (not notified)
  
  • Somebody else replies (notified)
    
    • Somebody else replies to them (not notified)
  • Somebody else replies (notified)
    
    • You reply (not notified I think)
      
      • Somebody else replies (notified)
  • You reply adding more details (not notified)
    
    Somebody else replies (notified)