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I'm looking to update the Guide to DW for LJ Users since we have so many people coming over this week, and realized that I haven't been following LJ development over the past few years closely enough to update the things LJ has that we don't! So, if someone who's been holding dual siteizenship for the past two years can help me make a list of things LJ has implemented since we branched off from them that we haven't integrated yet, that would be awesome.

Off the top of my head:

* Statistics/My Guests
* Repost-this-post button
* Private notes about other accounts

What am I missing?

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We have that too. :)

So we do!

Better autocomplete of tags!

Hm, what do you mean by that?

They've changed it so that, when you type the start of a tag, you get a dropdown with the matching tags, rather than just getting the (alphabetically?) first one in the tag box.

Got it! Thank you. :)

(We'll have better tag completion with the redesign of our update page, which should be done fairly soon.)

Ooh, I'd forgotten about the new update page! Yay!

-- +1 thingie in some communities like lj_scribe
-- Ability to identify yourself from partner accounts (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) in addition to OpenID.
-- Community Directory (http://www.livejournal.com/browse/)
-- Games (http://www.livejournal.com/games/)
-- Custom userheads
-- Monthly site headers/contests
-- Virtual Gifts (planned but not there yet)
-- IM notifications
-- Weblogs.com notifications
-- Pingbacks
-- Automatic crossposting to FB and/or Twitter
-- Automatic crossposting from Twitter
-- PGP/GPG key
-- Question of the Day
-- FRNK Radio and other general Frank-ness
-- Search is quite different now (we don't have the same criteria I think)
-- Community owner position (only they can delete the community)
-- Extended abilities to community moderators (previously reserved to maintainers)
-- LJ Talk
-- Express Lane???

Edited 2011-04-10 08:35 (UTC)

We do have the PGP/GPG key support; pingbacks were added on LJ before we branched so they're already there (ditto QotD); monthly site headers/contests is something that's more administrative than "feature in the code". other than that, though, great list!

Good to know! Wasn't QotD removed or something?
I mentioned the header changes because, from an accessibility POV, this is quite important. If I'm not mistaken they don't necessarily check that the text is readable over the bkg header.

And I found this: http://news.livejournal.com/133199.html which I think provides a nice list. They do mention something about tags which could be what flick was talking about. I don't follow development and news on LJ either so I'm not sure.

Edited (wrong name!) 2011-04-10 08:42 (UTC)

Yeah, we did remove QotD support (and a few other things) -- I meant more that they were already on the list of things LJ has that we don't :)

...I'm sure that is a very useful list that will be very helpful in making my update, if I could load it. Sigh. Stupid DDoSers.

Oh I'm sorry.

So the tags thing is two things:
-- a Select Tags link which pops up a box where you can see all your tags and easily check/uncheck the tags you want to have.
-- a drop-down menu below the tags box when you start typing a tag for easier selecting.

Edited 2011-04-10 08:52 (UTC)

In that case I'm not sure what you mean by "pingbacks were added on LJ before we branched so they're already there" - do you mean they exist on DW or not? I'm confused given what you said about the QotD.

"there" = "on the list of things that LJ has and we don't"

Monthly site headers/contests

which leads to the occasional revolting site header, like that chartreuse one last month

:) I finally caved and made my own style because I could no longer stand it. *pets Firefox and Stylish*

By repost this post button, you mean the thing where there is a button in a post that allows me to swipe the contents and just repost as is?

Or the thing that allows me to repost my own post to facebook a/o twitter? (it's with the dropdown to lock/filter/not lock the post)

(and also, using fb/t as identities to comment with...)

(I am not recommending implementing same here, just saying it's there)

I think the button in the post, a la Tumblr's reblog.

Heh, useless reference to me; I see that Tumblr exists but cannot make any sense of how it works or how conversations of any sort can be followed, and have stopped trying to do anything there other than see a picture to which I am directly linked.

On LJ you can add a button to your post to allow people to repost it to their own account, such as with the button at the bottom of http://soph.livejournal.com/206549.html . If you have an LJ account, try clicking it - it won't post immediately but it will take you to the Update page with that text in. :)

You can make notes re: users. Useful when blocking.

That's item #3 on her list, I think: "Private notes about other accounts"

Mood themes are technically in the same place:

DW it's here: http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=display
LJ it's here: http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml

However, DW has no FAQ entry for mood theme.

Edited 2011-10-06 02:49 (UTC)

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