Social media is presently full of reports of, erm, well there's a bit of a cyber thing going on. You can guess why. That normally only counts for so much, but a flistie and RW friend mailed last night to say someone had logged into her LJ account, so it's starting to hit closer to home. (You can check for that sort of incursion here, btw: https:// ( Read more... )

Please give this a shot. Even if you've tried before and failed, try again now, dreamwidth and live journal have gotten things sorted and the imports (read: backups) currently seem to work.

This is the short(ish) and sweet(ish) and not pretty version as it's potentially time sensitive, but here goes:

If you don't have a dreamwidth account, go ( Read more... )

Things being as they are, a lot of us are scrambling to back things up over on Dreamwidth. There are issues with that, and I'll cover them in another post, but in order for journals and communities to work, as in so many other things: you need your friends. (Also, if you haven't already, consider creating a free account at Dreamwidth.)

Bear in ( Read more... )

... if you've never done it before. (At a later date, I'll get around to the what happens if you've done it in the past and crossposted to create the entries. Trial and error ftw.) Or let's call this the 'maybe it's time to make a backup of your LJ account' post...

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