Make comment count & link for crossposted entries reciprocal

[cimorene]

Title:
Make comment count & link for crossposted entries reciprocal

Area:
interoperability, entries

Summary:
Place a link (with comment count) at the bottom of the original DW entry to its crossposted mirror.

Description:
Right now we have the option to include a link back to the original DW entry on crossposted versions of it, displaying the number of comments at the original entry. Any readers of the mirror journal will know if they are missing any discussion at DW, but DW readers don't currently know if they are missing part of the discussion at the mirror location.

I'd like to be able to generate a copy of that notice/comment count that would include the address of the cross-posted entry and a comment count for it, and place it on the original DW version of the entry so that both copies would link to each other.

Drawbacks:

If the same entry is crossposted to more than 1 other site, the number of links could eventually start to become unwieldy.

It would require another step after completed crossposting to modify the original entry on DW with the link.

Poll #1575 Make comment count & link for crossposted entries reciprocal

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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Should be implemented as-is.
28 (60.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
6 (13.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (10.9%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (15.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[kaigou]

I'm a little confused. Could you post examples of what you mean -- what text I'd see on the original/DW post, and what I'd see on the xposted post? Just some kind of general text, because I'm not sure what's changing where, from your description.

[cesy]

Adding an option along these lines would be very nifty if it was feasible.

[azurelunatic]

LiveJournal doesn't as yet provide a comment count, but otherwise so very much yes!

[the_shoshanna]

I would want per-site control over this, not just all or nothing. Partly because *cough* I like to use the crosspost footer to drive traffic to Dreamwidth.

[ratcreature]

I dislike the comment count images. They do not have a size, so I see image placeholders. I don't think that has been fixed yet.

[kerravonsen]

Yesssss.
I don't particularly care about comment count, but I really do want a link to my LJ post from my Dreamwidth post.
But if it were possible I'd like a bit more control over what appears, because I crosspost to DW, LJ and IJ, but the IJ is just for backup purposes, so I don't want it to appear as a crosspost-link on DW.