blogger and multiply, not the perfect marriage

i was surprised this nifty little feature called cross-posting that multply is offering. so i tried importing one of my blog posts from my blogger.

bluntly: it worked. but it felt like it worked just for the sake of having the said feature.

sure, it got my post, but when it came to editing it to adapt to my multiply page's look... that's where it crumbles. i find multiply's textarea replacement a little too-limitting to the point that it takes over and tries to "clean" it up for you. but of course any person would know that the "cleaned-up" version sucks. there is a view source feature! great. but it doesn't make sense why multiply treats a carriage return as another paragraph when in "view source" mode. say, you forgive that and continue working on the underlying code. what's annoying is that perfectly logical, valid, non-malicious tags get stripped/modified while inserting some more of multiply's own tags. multply, please get rid of the "view source" tickbox if you're not serious about it.

perhaps, on last quirk is the fact that once an entry is made(imported), it is automatically treated as a blog post. big thumbs down. i imported a movie review and it's treated as a blog post. ok fine, you might argue that blogger only has blog posts so multiply imports blogger posts as blog posts. but the thing is, that's how blogger users are used to posting reviews, galleries, or what have you; as blog posts. but still, that is not reason enough to not be able to import directly into a different category.

but i guess i may be asking too much with that. thanks for the effort anyway multiply. i'll still continue using my blogger.