dani_the_girl | (no subject)

Hmmm. Something's wacky with the importer. My entries have imported and they're correctly tagged (e.g. the fic tag exists) *but* only tags that I created on DW can be seen at http://dani-the-girl.dreamwidth.org/tag/. Anyone else reporting the same behaviour?

ETA: I can see all the tags when I go to the "edit this entry's tags" link.

ETA 2: Internal links (i.e. where one of my entries links to another of my entries) do not have their URLs updated. Also comments from the LJ account I imported from are marked as from my openID. Not sure if that last one is by design or not.

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From:

zorkian

As for updating links in the posts to reference the newly updated DW posts... do you think that's a good thing?

I've been very very wary about changing post contents, and I'm not sure what the best thing to do is in that situation. I can definitely see where people would want it, and I think I can see where people wouldn't. Also, it wouldn't be a "complete" transformation because if you reference other people's posts we might not have those in our system.

But what if we do? If you link to a post of mine, and next week I import, should it go back and update your links to stay internal?

So many questions!

From:

dani_the_girl

Yeah, I see your point. In an ideal world, I would have it as an option - update links to imported posts to point to the new DreamWidth version or something like that. And then it would update links in your own import and other people importing links to your posts. Although actually, getting into updating other people's content is kind of skeevy, so scratch that.

OK. So the default behaviour I was expecting is that links to other posts in my own journal would update - say links back to my fanfic 50 table from the relevant stories. That way I wouldn't have to go and do them manually. That behaviour could be made optional.

How much work would it be to also have an option to update links to posts from other users that have now been imported into DreamWidth? It strikes me as a lot fiddlier to do, but if I'm wrong, it's another option I'd like to have.