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[sarren]

Guys, dreamwidth has defeated me.  I'm stil around, check in on peep's posts periodically, but whenever I decide to do a catch up post - which tend to cover several topics and there therefore long and require a cut, I just cannot make the cut work - even by copying and pasting the code for the last cut that DID work.  I just dunno what setting I've got on it (presumably I've figured it out previously) but I mess around and I mess around. Last night the cross post to LJ didn't cut either, but when I reposted it first into LJ it did work, but then when I copied and pasted it back to DW it didn't.  GAH.

I'll try to post short, one topic ones, I guess.  ha, like this.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

How weird!

(In terms of settings, the only one I can find is if you go to Manage Account and Display, there is an "Cut Tag Behavior Display full content of cut entries?" although I don't know if that refers to the journal's entries, or on the reading pages, but I suppose you could double check that if you haven't already?)

[cut] or [cut text="whatever"] is still working for me fine (with <> obv)

[sarren]

That sounds perfect and I was very excited, but no, it is still set to honour cut tags :(

Thanks for looking.

[thisbluespirit]

Shame! Worth a try, though. The only other thing I can think is just to change your layout in case there's something weird going on with that. Otherwise, yeah, probably best to let Dreamwidth know!

[fred_mouse]

You would not be the only person posting long screeds without cuts -- would not surprise me if many people are defeated by the cut coding. I'd rather see more from you and hang the formatting :)

[sarren]

I'm fine with other people doing it, i guess i just feel weirdly self-conscious. IDK.

Thank you :)

[fred_mouse]

<3

[liadt]

No idea? cut and / cut still works for me.

[sarren]

IDK, I guess I could file a help request. It was useless when I needed help from LJ years ago, but maybe these guys are better.

[tinny]

oh man, that sucks. I have no idea how any of the fancy editors work, I'm just writing everything out in plain text like the dinosaur I am.

I still use the old [lj-cut text=""] syntax, but on dw, both that and just [cut] without the lj prefix should work, too.

You could probably check it by switching back and forth between the editors and plain text?

[sarren]

Believe me when I say I have tried that over and over again *cries bitter tears*

[kaffy_r]

What browser do you normally use? I used to have that problem when I used Firefox. Instances lessened when I switched to Chrome, but even now, I will occasionally have cut problems. Believe it or not, sometimes that corrects if I shut down my computer and do a cold boot. (I have no idea why.)

Also, do you post in rich text or html mode? I almost always post in rich text, but when a cut doesn't work for me, I switch to html. I usually find the "open cut" cut tag properly set up between its < >, but the"close cut" /cut isn't there at the end. I then search line by line, and usually find the /cut somewhere in the middle of the post. I take it out, put it where it should be, and then post without going back to rich text. That usually works.

I expect that you've already long since figured it out, but I'm trying to catch up with people, and I ran into this post of yours, and wanted to add any potentially helpful hints in case it's still a problem.