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Maybe I missed this post, but what technology are you using to crosspost between Tumblr and DW?

I’m using a website called IFTTT (If This, Then That) which I’ve programmed to check my tumblr every 15 minutes and crosspost anything it finds there if it’s tagged properly.

IFTTT does this by yanking the post off Tumblr, throwing it into an email, and emailing it to Dreamwidth, which means you have to set up Dreamwidth to accept email posting.

Any of these recipes can be used to crosspost to an active DW/LJ where you talk with friends and they read your posts, or they can be used to crosspost to an “archival” account if you just want to archive off-site. Be aware however that IFTTT only pulls the first image of any given post, so if you archive a multiple-image post it will be incomplete.

Here are some resources:

Universal Crossposting: this post (not by me) has instructions for how to set up IFTTT to crosspost everything you post on Tumblr to your DW/LJ. It also contains instructions for how to set up Dreamwidth for email posting.

Crossposting only posts you tag to crosspost: set up IFTTT to crosspost ONLY if you tag the post “crosspost”. This has some quirks; it will include the first image in the post, but if there’s no image attached to the post it will put a big “NO IMAGE FOUND” banner on your DW post, which is ugly. So:

Crossposting only TEXT posts you tag to crosspost: this recipe (by me) is identical to the one above, but it uses the tag “textpost”. It will only crosspost posts you tag “textpost”, and it will not include images, even if images are attached to the post. 

I hope this helps! Also be aware that if you click “advanced options” on either of my recipes, you should be able to change the tag from “crosspost” or “textpost” to a tag of your own choosing.

Crossposting between dw and tumblr. Great instructions. Pls use in the tumblr exodus