aqueerjedi asked: Do you archive your Tumblr posts to Dream width l manually or do you have an automated program for that?
I’m doing it manually because I want them to be attractively formatted, with titles that will help me know at a glance what they are, and appropriately tagged (also I’m changing some of my tags as I port, either because the Tumblr ones were too long for DW or because they’re no longer accurate—or because a given entry has become relevant to a current tag that didn’t exist when it was originally posted). There’s no one-to-one correspondence between features on one platform versus the other: for example, a lot of my reading posts use the quote-post format on Tumblr, which has no equivalent on DW; but they don’t have titles, which DW entries provide for. So I’m spending some time to make them more usefully “native” to the site.
It’s a shit ton of work, but I’m on vacation and I’m actually kind of enjoying the reminder of all the amazing things I’ve read over the past six years. It’s becoming a form of very condensed re-reading and re-reflecting, which is cool!
(Also, DW’s tagging system is SO much more functional as an actual organizational tool, holy mackerel.)
That said, I’ve noticed some people using IFTTT to migrate Tumblr entries to DW. I find the resulting formatting less than pleasing, but it’s probably quicker.
