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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[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).