further on dreamwidth

[dragonlady7]

understand it, so i can't fix it

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LOL i also can’t reply to comments.

No, when I reblog posts, I used to append a note to say this was a reblog, but the IFTTT crossposter would strip that out and put it in strange places. Tried to use tags, those don’t come through either. Often I have appended commentary to the end, usually adding image descriptions, but there’s no reliable way to make sure that’s gonna come through as an obvious thing. (Often my captions wind up as the first thing in the post, which I am aware is a bit weird. However, it is all quite a bit less terrible and crusty than it used to be, so overall the functionality is better. I just know, i can’t really rely on anything coming through along with the posts, so there’s no point in trying to mark them, and since I can’t log in to Dreamwidth– hilariously, I opted NOT to use a password manager for Dreamwidth, but somehow the password I have, and the one I fed into the crossposter, is not allowing me to log into the site, and I know if I reset it I will break the crossposter. I am very bad at technology and I know once I break that crossposter I will not be able to repair it, so I’ve opted to leave the site I actually use being reposted to the one I don’t functional in lieu of just disappearing from Dreamwidth entirely.)

The only thing that’s foolproof is that there’s always a link back to the Tumblr post at the top, and if you click through, it’s very regular and coherent and easy to see what’s a reblog on Tumblr. (Your picture was not posted)