Unintended consequences of name change discovered thus far

[sholio]

Come to find out, I can no longer edit my older crossposts between LJ and DW. I suppose that if I want to edit a post, I'll have to do it individually in both places.

Not a big deal, but ... unexpected. And none of my crosspost links display correctly, or show the comment count on the other site (though they do work).

But those are minor issues! I like my new name, and it seems to be showing up correctly everywhere it ought to be -- and I don't have any trouble thinking of it as "my" name when I see it (aside from a certain amount of disconcertingness, because I'm used to typing "friendshipper" into the address bar to get to my journal).

All systems go! \o/

Comments

[torachan]

Weird. Did you report the problem to DW? Seems like it might be a glitch.

Since you posted with your default icon, I didn't even notice you'd changed your name at first (I also had never noticed this icon says friendshipper on it; I just saw the pattern).

[sholio]

I also had never noticed this icon says friendshipper on it

It didn't used to. Someone suggested it in the comments to my name change post (or something along those lines anyway) and I thought, hey, good idea!

I hadn't thought of reporting it but I think that's an excellent idea, so thank you. :D It might be something inherent in the system that's not fixable, but it may be that so few people have done DW renames yet that they're still working the bugs out of the system.

[alessandriana]

Your old posts may not show the comment count on LJ, but this one does! So I guess it's not a permanent thing?

[sholio]

Yeah, the new ones seem to. It's just the ones before the name change that have that issue.

(btw, added you)

[meridian_rose]

I hope you can get it sorted out :D
I'm still waiting for LJ to fix the 'export' problem. I can crosspost from DW to LJ but when I try to import comments left on the LJ versions it no longer works - nor can anyone use the LJarchive to back up their journals. It's a known issue that's been going on since at least the time they broke the rich text editor D:

[sholio]

Oh, suck! I didn't know their export was broken. D: (Obviously I haven't tried it lately.)

just FYI

[brightknightie]

Dreamwidth automatically changed all the "friendshipper" username links inside my existing posts to "sholio." LiveJournal did not. I think that this is a code change that DW made, and that LJ has never supported that function.

Re: just FYI

[sholio]

Well, that's good to know! Thanks for the heads-up. :)

[starwatcher]

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\o/ for the more satisfactory name.

(And I 'recognized' your right away. *g*)
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[sholio]

Thank you! :) I like the new name.

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

THIS encourages me

Wonder if you had any problem bringing your flist with you??
Apparently not as I have added you as a friend and can read this
entry soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.......

I found out that Black_Raven is in use.........and so is BlackRaven
So am considering Black_Raven135 which is currently free.

[sholio]

Nope, the flist and everything transfered over just fine. At least, I haven't noticed any issues so far. (When you make the name change, there is a series of check boxes asking whether you want your flist to stay the same, but if you just keep the defaults it'll all stay the same, on LJ anyway.)

[linziday.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad it's working out for you.

[sholio]

Thank you! :)