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Thing about the crossposter
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misskatThe inbox says that it "failed to connect" to LJ.
That error message means that our servers weren't able to reach LiveJournal's servers at the time you tried to crosspost. It can happen for a number of different reasons, but it's usually a transient error having to do with LJ being unavailable at the exact second the crosspost attempted. The system will retry the crosspost up to five times, at progressively longer intervals, before failing (each attempt will be numbered in your inbox, so if you only get one failure rather than five, that means the second attempt was successful). After the fifth failure, it won't try again anymore; if that happens, doublecheck that your LJ password is correct, then edit the post and check the unchecked crosspost box to get it to try again. (Then, if you still keep getting failures after that, open a support request.)
--From Denise in an answer on a maint post.
There's been some confusion before about how many times the crossposter retries, so I figured I'd stick this here for reference.
ETA: Parts of this entry originally referenced the importer, not the crossposter. I get them confused sometimes! Anyway, that's been fixed.
That error message means that our servers weren't able to reach LiveJournal's servers at the time you tried to crosspost. It can happen for a number of different reasons, but it's usually a transient error having to do with LJ being unavailable at the exact second the crosspost attempted. The system will retry the crosspost up to five times, at progressively longer intervals, before failing (each attempt will be numbered in your inbox, so if you only get one failure rather than five, that means the second attempt was successful). After the fifth failure, it won't try again anymore; if that happens, doublecheck that your LJ password is correct, then edit the post and check the unchecked crosspost box to get it to try again. (Then, if you still keep getting failures after that, open a support request.)
--From Denise in an answer on a maint post.
There's been some confusion before about how many times the crossposter retries, so I figured I'd stick this here for reference.
ETA: Parts of this entry originally referenced the importer, not the crossposter. I get them confused sometimes! Anyway, that's been fixed.
