Moving Time?
It looks like it might be moving time. Digital moving time.
I started this blog just over nine years ago when a bunch of my net.friends were on LiveJournal. Not too long after that, when LJ was bought by a Russian company, they started peeling off to other sites, particularly Dreamwidth. The fact that the site operated under the laws of the Russian Federation never really bothered me, so I stayed.
The group has since moved platforms several times. They went from Dreamwidth to G+, then to MeWe, then to a combination of MeWe and Discord, and now they're coming back around to Dreamwidth.
The group coming back around to Dreamwidth presents me with a tough choice: do I migrate to Dreamwidth?
The choice is a tough one because I've got a lot of history here on LJ. I've written thousands of journal entries. LJ doesn't make them easy to count, so the best I've got is a back-of-the-envelope estimate I put at 4,000 posts. I've uploaded a lot of pictures, too. LJ does make those a bit easier to count (not easy, just a bit easier), and I was floored at the result: 2,600+ pictures.
Migrating all this content over to DW would be a bear. DW has a migration tool, but it doesn't handle pictures. So the significant fraction of my 4,000 points that link to my 2,600 pictures will contain broken links. That's a lot of work to have to go back and fix by hand. And the migration tool doesn't map privacy settings, so the small fraction of my posts that are locked to friends-only will be wide open. I'd have to go back and fix those by hand, too.
I could start posting on DW without migrating over from LJ. At this point that looks like the best option- the best of a bad lot, that is. It's a poor option because it splits my journal presence between two platforms. I'd be maintaining homes on two sites. I'd really rather have everything on one site. That's easier for people to follow references and find older content on, and less work for me to maintain. Alas, the one-site options suck. Splitting between two sites may be the least sucky option.
Suggestions welcome.
I started this blog just over nine years ago when a bunch of my net.friends were on LiveJournal. Not too long after that, when LJ was bought by a Russian company, they started peeling off to other sites, particularly Dreamwidth. The fact that the site operated under the laws of the Russian Federation never really bothered me, so I stayed.
The group has since moved platforms several times. They went from Dreamwidth to G+, then to MeWe, then to a combination of MeWe and Discord, and now they're coming back around to Dreamwidth.
The group coming back around to Dreamwidth presents me with a tough choice: do I migrate to Dreamwidth?
The choice is a tough one because I've got a lot of history here on LJ. I've written thousands of journal entries. LJ doesn't make them easy to count, so the best I've got is a back-of-the-envelope estimate I put at 4,000 posts. I've uploaded a lot of pictures, too. LJ does make those a bit easier to count (not easy, just a bit easier), and I was floored at the result: 2,600+ pictures.
Migrating all this content over to DW would be a bear. DW has a migration tool, but it doesn't handle pictures. So the significant fraction of my 4,000 points that link to my 2,600 pictures will contain broken links. That's a lot of work to have to go back and fix by hand. And the migration tool doesn't map privacy settings, so the small fraction of my posts that are locked to friends-only will be wide open. I'd have to go back and fix those by hand, too.
I could start posting on DW without migrating over from LJ. At this point that looks like the best option- the best of a bad lot, that is. It's a poor option because it splits my journal presence between two platforms. I'd be maintaining homes on two sites. I'd really rather have everything on one site. That's easier for people to follow references and find older content on, and less work for me to maintain. Alas, the one-site options suck. Splitting between two sites may be the least sucky option.
Suggestions welcome.