So, LJ has started circling the drain.
Any bets on “smooth transition” versus “good morning your entire blog is gone”?
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So, LJ has started circling the drain.
Any bets on “smooth transition” versus “good morning your entire blog is gone”?
Be My Blog 
Time to press the button!
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You know, the one that backs up your shit.
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Any particular recommendations? (is ‘wget’ it?)
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LJArchive gets posts and comments.
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LJArchive gets posts and comments.
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LJArchive
When I went to TypePad a couple of years ago I used http://fawx.com/software/ljarchive/ to suck ’em all out into XML files. It worked well, though I had to nerd out and write my own import script later… I’m not sure there’s any “simple” approach.
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LJArchive
When I went to TypePad a couple of years ago I used http://fawx.com/software/ljarchive/ to suck ’em all out into XML files. It worked well, though I had to nerd out and write my own import script later… I’m not sure there’s any “simple” approach.
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If you just want the entries: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=8
If you want comments as well, you need something like ljArchive.
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If you just want the entries: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=8
If you want comments as well, you need something like ljArchive.
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If you’re on a mac, I recommend antennapedia’s migration tool – fairly easy to use (even for a nitwit like me):
http://antennapedia.livejournal.com/266462.html
Though this site has a better tutorial:
http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/alter_writes/53118.html
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If you’re on a mac, I recommend antennapedia’s migration tool – fairly easy to use (even for a nitwit like me):
http://antennapedia.livejournal.com/266462.html
Though this site has a better tutorial:
http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/alter_writes/53118.html
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Any particular recommendations? (is ‘wget’ it?)
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You know, the one that backs up your shit.
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Time to press the button!
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So i went to my LJ home view to see any announcements …
True thing I saw when I went to my LJ home view:
In Spotlight This Week: P
* abandonedplaces
Ramshackle old barns, burnt-out warehouses, moss-covered cemeteries—there’s a lot of beauty lurking in abandoned places. This community is dedicated to exploring and documenting the poetry of ruin and decay.
Thus, I LOL’d
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So i went to my LJ home view to see any announcements …
True thing I saw when I went to my LJ home view:
In Spotlight This Week: P
* abandonedplaces
Ramshackle old barns, burnt-out warehouses, moss-covered cemeteries—there’s a lot of beauty lurking in abandoned places. This community is dedicated to exploring and documenting the poetry of ruin and decay.
Thus, I LOL’d
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Where to now?
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Where to now?
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Why is lj the SINKING SHIP?
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Not enough shiny buttons?
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Not enough shiny buttons?
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Why is lj the SINKING SHIP?
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This is exactly why I run my own server. The content is always under my control. I don’t trust LJ or Blogger or any other blog publisher.
But then, I’m a cranky old man.
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It’s been a good long 8 years of not sysadminning my stuff. I’m still happy.
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It’s been a good long 8 years of not sysadminning my stuff. I’m still happy.
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This is exactly why I run my own server. The content is always under my control. I don’t trust LJ or Blogger or any other blog publisher.
But then, I’m a cranky old man.
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This blows.
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This blows.
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sez:
Sources via The Independent (who have recently gone into partnership with LJ) advise me that they’re probably just shunting as much of the operation as possible to Moscow. Which, as they’re Russian owned, makes sense. So I’ve stopped my pathetic attempts to back up 6 years worth of data via ljbook.com (which is as slow as f*ck, which in turn indicates that I’m not the only one) and just ignoring the rumour mill. For the moment.
See also http://community.livejournal.com/no_lj_ads/83519.html
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sez:
Sources via The Independent (who have recently gone into partnership with LJ) advise me that they’re probably just shunting as much of the operation as possible to Moscow. Which, as they’re Russian owned, makes sense. So I’ve stopped my pathetic attempts to back up 6 years worth of data via ljbook.com (which is as slow as f*ck, which in turn indicates that I’m not the only one) and just ignoring the rumour mill. For the moment.
See also http://community.livejournal.com/no_lj_ads/83519.html
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I suspect they’ll just move the lot to Russia. LJ is huge there, and the non-Russian part of it has just been an appendage for the past few years.
I hope they don’t lose it; it’s the only one that does social network-based authentication with any decent level of granularity.
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I suspect they’ll just move the lot to Russia. LJ is huge there, and the non-Russian part of it has just been an appendage for the past few years.
I hope they don’t lose it; it’s the only one that does social network-based authentication with any decent level of granularity.
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