New LJ stuff

[matgb]

Some great stuff in today's worcester LJ code push, prompting my desire to test a feature. Still, one good thing, but would've liked to know it was happening; they've changed the tag limit from 100 to 1000, so my careful go back and split up my 'life' tag that I've been doing for the last month or so became fairly pointless overnight; has made the tag cloud itself look better though; it works out all sizes based on the biggest used tag, so having none over 100 makes the mid range tags look much bigger. Külness.
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However, still planning to decamp my journal hosting reasonably soon; NB, not leaving LJ, just hosting my journal elsewhere as well as here, not sure how to handle comments yet, but I'm not the first doing it and it seems to work for them. So, via lj2wordpress, Infotropism – Weaning yourself off LJ: Why you might want to. Followed up by a series of how-to guides, quite a nice post that.

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[foxfirefey]

Lemme tell ya, fandom is on a frickin' MISSION now. Check out fanarchive, it's pretty organized.

[matgb]

Hmm, yes, they are. Really regretting not sorting my head out a bit more and doing a lot of docs/installs for the wiki now, I've not touched it, and your mail is still in my "put aside a lot of thinking time" folder to respond to, what 4 months on. Ouch, moving, new job, memory failures, then a perfect lost opportunity.

I think with a few tweakes Wordpress MU would be perfect for a lot of what fandom wants, but haven't even tried a test install yet. Ah well.

Still, they're moving; people are looking into other options and planning to jump off; they're looking at another centralised site still, but that could be changed; decentralised archives with a central search engine would make much more sense. Hmm, and it'd clear up a lot of their legal concerns.

Must ponder this a bit. Crazy fen. Thanks, for both links.

[foxfirefey]

Eh, life. I have my thesis. But in their honor, I'm making a guide on using ljdump right now, and I modified the script to take command line arguments.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

they've changed the tag limit from 100 to 1000

Brilliant.

Wish I had a tag cloud...

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a tag cloud too :(

*really need to sort out tags*

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Actually, not so brilliant: I have to go back and re-tag entries that have already been tagged and I've no way of knowing which these ones are? Arse.

[matgb]

I'mm be working on figuring out how to fix/sort out my tag cloud soon; I think I can get the one in my sidebar to take both columns and work more like comedyjim's which would be nice; if I can I'll mail you the cde/how to, as I'll be keeping notes for myself anyway.

As for retagging, yeah, pain, someone is working on a client or a workaround, it's possible LJ Archive might give you answers to that, and/or I might export mine to a wordpress site as a backup anyway (I want to back my journal up regardless, and wordpress should be easy, just time consuming with everything I've posted).

I'll let you know if/when we've got any tricks for either.

[js84.livejournal.com]

My tag cloud is namely here (http://comedyjim.livejournal.com/tag/)

Not enough tags though. I guess it's all the single use tags that count more towards a total like 1000

Mat, yours isn't too different to the one I have. It just takes up a narrower column and doesn't count the totals. Conversely, I'd like my tag cloud to appear on the main page but I think it only works with the particular theme you have.

I seem to remember LJ Archive only works for an offline backup of posts rather than editing posts online.

[matgb]

Ah, no, the limit is #posts that will display. life: 2005a has 82 entries, apparently (hover over it), but there are none actually displaying; once you got to 100 (now 1000) the oldest entry dumped off the list; still counted, but you can't ?skip=100 back to it. Very annoyed when I found out, hence I split and re-edited my 'life' tag out, and deleted the 'webstuff' tag completely. Dual benefit of making the mid-use tags (20ish entries each) actually bigger now, as the display is proportionate to most used tag.

What I really like about yours is the way it divides off single use tags; I'd personally have only multi use tags in my cloud, and the full list on the tag page. You possibly could code the tag cloud into your sidebar code (it's what I plan to try), but until I've figured out how...

But yeah, Archive only backs up, but it does then become a searchable backup because it's an XML file, and once you know which post that you need to get to you can then go edit it; it's finding the damn things (life:2005a is the remnatns of the old life tag renamed, life:2005 is the ones from 2005 that I've found and renamed already).

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

In other news, what sort of time were you thinking of coming over on Sunday?

[matgb]

Afternoon, midish? Unless you fancy doing something else first, go somewhere local(ish) by bus or something?

Basically, likely to be in bed until midday, then want to eat, then come around to yours, but no set time because you know what I'm like. But if there's ar eason to get up before, I can.

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

Poll notification thingermy.

Generally good, but it would be nice if you could do something like have them batched up every hour or something, so that you don't get 40 emails in the first hour.

[matgb]

Aye; I've set mine to go to message centre only now (I just wish I could get it to not send stuff there that it's emailing -- that's in the works apparently), where it's more manageable but still annoying.

I'm much more interested on people voting in much older polls than current ones; I'll go back to a new poll to check it for the next few days, but after that it's only if I notice. They're working on a per poll function though, which'll be nice.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

And you call me a weirdo...