DTCL community backup
There is a chance that sites hosted in Russia won't be accessible from outside Russia at some point in the near future. LiveJournal is hosted in Russia. Not in Russia: me, and probably a lot of other DTCL members.
So it's a good time to think about backing up LJ journals and communities.
To preserve "snapshots" of posts for future viewing, you can save the URLs into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This means that if someone has links to posts but they stop working, they can plug the URLs into the Wayback Machine instead and still read them that way. I've run some DTCL URLs through there when I remembered (including the calendar navigation pages), but I'm sure there a lot that have not been captured. If there are any posts you want to save in the Wayback Machine, go for it!
For backing up your own LJ, there are a few LJ-clone sites you can export it to, if you haven't already. I think Dreamwidth is the most-used and best-maintained one right now. Here's their page on importing from Livejournal to Dreamwidth and a guide to Dreamwidth for LiveJournal users.
And here are a couple of dw_maintenance posts about current conditions for importing your LJ into Dreamwidth:
2022-03-10
2022-03-11
I am not the DTCL owner and so can't import it to another site. It's been pretty quiet here the past couple of years and I don't know if there's enough interest in keeping it going on another site anyway, but if everyone thinks it's a good idea, it would be possible to import the community into Dreamwidth for preservation's sake at least as long as our community owner is in a position to do that right now.
I'm also on Dreamwidth as Sunnyskywalker, so if any of you are or will be on Dreamwidth too, you can find me there. I'm on Archive of Our Own as Sunnyskywalker too.
Please feel free to post links to your own Dreamwidth, GreatestJournal, AO3, etc. accounts in the comments so everyone can connect with people they'd like to keep following!
So it's a good time to think about backing up LJ journals and communities.
To preserve "snapshots" of posts for future viewing, you can save the URLs into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This means that if someone has links to posts but they stop working, they can plug the URLs into the Wayback Machine instead and still read them that way. I've run some DTCL URLs through there when I remembered (including the calendar navigation pages), but I'm sure there a lot that have not been captured. If there are any posts you want to save in the Wayback Machine, go for it!
For backing up your own LJ, there are a few LJ-clone sites you can export it to, if you haven't already. I think Dreamwidth is the most-used and best-maintained one right now. Here's their page on importing from Livejournal to Dreamwidth and a guide to Dreamwidth for LiveJournal users.
And here are a couple of dw_maintenance posts about current conditions for importing your LJ into Dreamwidth:
2022-03-10
2022-03-11
I am not the DTCL owner and so can't import it to another site. It's been pretty quiet here the past couple of years and I don't know if there's enough interest in keeping it going on another site anyway, but if everyone thinks it's a good idea, it would be possible to import the community into Dreamwidth for preservation's sake at least as long as our community owner is in a position to do that right now.
I'm also on Dreamwidth as Sunnyskywalker, so if any of you are or will be on Dreamwidth too, you can find me there. I'm on Archive of Our Own as Sunnyskywalker too.
Please feel free to post links to your own Dreamwidth, GreatestJournal, AO3, etc. accounts in the comments so everyone can connect with people they'd like to keep following!