Tag: tumblr

New LJ feature – Tumblr feed on the new Friends Feed!

I’m giving LJ’s new layout another try (it’s ~80% of the way to convincing me to switch permanently) and took a look to see if there have been any changes to the new friends feed (~95% done, in my opinion.) And right at the top of the widget sidebar was a big “Login to Tumblr” button. Holy crap, they made my idea a reality. Now if only there were a way to repost from Tumblr to LJ like you can do with the Twitter and Instagram feeds and I’d be a truly happy camper.

If you want to check it out, first you need to be using LJ’s new site design (click on the link on the homepage to test it out.) Then, you need to use the /feed page [ http://exampleusername.livejournal.com/feed/ ] instead of the /friends page [ http://exampleusername.livejournal.com/feed/ ], making sure to use your own username – the feed widgets are only visible to you on your own /feed page, not anywhere else nor to anyone else. And if you find the colors too bright/awful/distracting, click on the gear icon on the left of the page to choose your own colors for the /feed page.

Tumblr search bookmarklet

I went to link this to somebody and I realized I never actually shared it here in the first place. So enjoy a little bookmarklet I made a few months back after getting frustrated with Tumblr’s “search” functions and inconsistent UI.

Copy the following code into a new bookmarklet in your browser. Click it when you’re viewing any post or blog at tumblr.com and it will open up that blog’s archive page and liked posts page.

Trial separation

I am so done with Tumblr right now. This post from Humans of New York has inspired a mild backlash and argument about cultural appropriation (nice discussion of the concept there). Within the first few hundred comments we got to watch somebody call this under-ten kid a racist bitch and call to have her address leaked on the internet. And I particularly loved the people who were calling it cultural appropriation, getting corrected by people of Japanese descent, and then doubling down and saying that everyone who disagreed with them was probably actually white and just pretending to be Japanese.

I’ve got to take a break from that place. There’s a lot to see and discover there but there’s also far too many people just looking to pick a fight. So I’m out for a while. I’ve queued up a whole month’s worth of posts for Home Inspection Nightmares, I’ll go back in June.

Current Mood: 😡irate

Surprise, I’m alive!

So, I’ve kind of spent the last eight weeks building three different shows. The first to go up was “Marriage of Figaro” about three weeks ago, then “Anatomy of Gray” last week, and a couple days ago we opened “Eurydice”. I’ll talk more about the whole process later but Eurydice is most on my mind, for obvious reasons.

The thing that sticks out most right now is something that happened at the opening matinee for a bunch of high-school students. After the show the cast and crew came out and sat on set and took some questions from the audience and there was this one girl in the front row who asked about the baptism theme and if that was intentional (it wasn’t on our part, but might be inherent in the story). After her question, she just sort of sat there sobbing while the cast answered a bunch of other questions. When we finished up I remarked to Mat (playing the role of Father) that she looked like the kind of girl who’d go home and start up a Tumblr about this play.

Then last night Gill and I were at the opening night performance and I’m positive baptism-girl was sitting behind us with a bunch of her friends. After the play was over I overheard her say “This play just gives me so many feels” and I knew that if we hadn’t banned video recording that there’d be a bunch of sepia-toned animated GIFs of our actors in a couple of days.

P.S. For support – the mood “blah” was pre-selected for me when I started writing this entry. Firefox 20.0.1, Windows 7 Professional.

Current Mood: 😐blah

Howto: Crosspost from Tumblr to LiveJournal

https://www.tumblr.com/fiddlingfrog/42302608235/howto-crosspost-from-tumblr-to-livejournal

So there’s actually an easy way to crosspost your Tumblr posts to LiveJournal. It’s not automatic, but it’s not complicated either.

step 1

step 2
The first step is to copy the URL for the RSS feed of your Tumblog. Then, visit http://www.livejournal.com/syn to create a new LJ syndicated feed of your Tumblr. Note that creation of syndicated feeds is a paid account feature, but if you don’t have a paid account you can ask anyone who does to create the feed for you.

step 3
You’ll probably then be given the opportunity to name the new feed. If instead you go directly to the add feed page, that means that somebody else created the feed already. That person should be listed on the new-style profile page for the feed, so maybe get to know them.

step 4
Now take a look at the syndication page for your new feed. You’ll have to wait a little while before LJ grabs all of your Tumblr entries, but once it does everything you’ve posted or reblogged in the last couple of weeks will be listed here. You should only have to wait an hour or so, but if a whole day goes by without any of your Tumblr posts showing up, open up a Support request to ask about it.
When your entries show up, pick one from the list and visit its LJ home.

step 5
Once there you should click on the Share button at the top of the post, and then click on LiveJournal. If you’ve friended your own Tumblr feed, you should see a Share link when viewing your friends page.

step 6a
After you’ve clicked on Share a new tab should open up with the Update Journal page, pre-filled with your Tumblr post. What’s pretty neat is that this keeps photosets together, keeps quote pyramids at the bottom of the post together, and properly links everything just as it did on Tumblr. On the downside, YouTube videos and sound files won’t work when you Share them inside of LJ.
Before you post your entry on LJ, you can delete the very first line, the one that says where on LJ you shared it from. Syndicated entries on LJ only stick around for a couple of weeks before they evaporate, so there’s not a lot of point to keeping that information. It’s also not necessary to get rid of it, I just think it’s tidier.