I think, the most frustrating part of the migration to the new diary site is the fear to lose touch with your DD Friends. I know, it was confusing to me at first too. And I believe, this is almost the main reason why people aren’t too keen on moving over.
It took me a while to come to clear understanding about what happens to the friend’s connections on the new site. So here’s my take on attempting to clarify the current situation.
PLEASE NOTE: it is indeed only how things are AT THIS MOMENT. Since this is a new site, you have to appreciate this, a lot needs to be done and there are some features that may not be as urgent as other features and fixes, but there are always workarounds exist, so never fear – nothing is lost!
So, you have migrated your diary and got over the first frustrating moments of setting it up the way you want. Now it is time to take a breath, look around and see where your friends are. I split the information into OLD and NEW places – what happens where.
FIRST OF ALL what you have to keep in mind – the usernames in the old and in the new diaries, while may sound the same, but sit in the different security systems, therefore you cannot be logged in to the New Diary and go read friends only entries in the Old one by clicking on their entry – you will have to re-log in to the old system and will be prompted for that.
OLD DIARY.
You CAN access Friend’s Only entries of your friends in the Old Diary.
- You still should be able to go and visit your friends’ diaries in the old site if they are not migrated yet. If they have friends only entries, you should be able to see them exactly the same way as before – by logging into the old diary’s site with your OLD DIARY’s username and password. This wasn’t working before, but now it’s fixed, many thanks to Steve!
- Your friends from old diary still can access your friend’s only entries in your OLD DIARY, the same way as they did before. Please note: it is up to you to let them know in your OLD DIARY that you have migrated it over and if you will be updating both in parallel for some transition time or if you have a “clean cut”. Personally, I think the clean cut is a better option and that’s what I did with mine . It was easy for me, since I do not have Friends Only in Misstick’s. So anyone from the old site or, indeed, from anywhere, can come and read. However, if your new diary has a lot (or all) Friends Only entries, you might have to arrange a transition period when you will copy each friends only entry into two diaries for a while to allow your non-migrated friends to see your updates.
- Since new diary has a new security system, you will have to re-add your friends again to let them read your New Diary’s friends only. CURRENTLY it is not possible to add un-migrated friends. (see above about keeping two copies of each entry for transitional period).
- If your friend has migrated too, it is easy to add them to your Friends in the New Diary – see how to do it in my entry
- You can also put links to their diaries to be displayed on your page permanently for quick connect – similar to Diaries I Read option in the old diary. You can put links to both, old or new diaries, it doesn’t matter, when follow the link to the old diary, you’ll get a prompt to enter username and password in order to read friends only, if relevant. How to do this has also been explained in DD Tipsies All-In-One.