Crossposting to Dreamdwidth from Posterous

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Title:
Crossposting to Dreamdwidth from Posterous

Area:
Crossposting

Summary:
I have what I call my 'grown up' blog over at Posterous (www.posterous.com) and maintain my beloved personal blog here on DW. Posterous auto crosspost to LJ and I desperately want an auto crosspost feature to DW.

Description:
Posterous (www.posterous.com) is a kind of tumbleblog and they have in place mechanisms to do auto-crossposting to other services. They don't yet do this to Dreamwidth and I've suggested it to them on multiple occasions, and I wonder if Dreamwidth approaching them whether it might actually happen. At present it seems to suffer from being at the bottom of the list of their priorities, and I respect that but it's increasingly difficult to make the best use of my blogging and time having to manually do the post/cross posting thing.

I am hoping that because DW is based on the LJ sourcecode that the work needed to have a DW auto cross post would be less work than they perhaps think it will be. I'm not a coder and I can't speak to that, sorry.

Having this ability will improve shareability between platforms, for those of us who do have multiple blog spaces it cuts down the time needed to manually post/link to/update all the spaces.

The drawback is that I'm asking DW about it and it relates to a push from another service to DW which possibly makes it not possible from this end. It may be that I need to push at Posterous and provide them with more context and detail as to how to go about implementing this.

This is a potential alternative actually, could you provide me with some support to liaise with Posterous so that I can make a better case to them about having the auto-crosspost feature if it's not within your purview or capability to directly engage with Posterous about this?

Hoping that I've provided a useful amount of detail for you and that it's a suggestion that is useful in some way.

Many sincere thanks for how approachable and involved you and the entire volunteer team of DW coders are with regard to improvements on the service and engaging with all the things big and little that matter to DW users.

Poll #8833 Crossposting to Dreamdwidth from Posterous

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Should be implemented as-is.
9 (18.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
39 (81.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)