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LJ in 2009 -- The Grim Purge

Jan 06, 2009 01:57

Starts out with half of the San Francisco office personnel being laid off in one week, with no advance warning and no severance, including personnel like janinedog and chasethestars, who have always been nothing but kind and courteous and helpful to us here out of nothing but their love of all things LJ. There might be more detailed posts on this subject to come, as ( Read more... )

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ironed_orchid January 6 2009, 11:40:16 UTC

Must be time to archive my journal again.

rkledgerwood January 6 2009, 16:27:19 UTC

This may seem like a silly question, but I have asked it before and never had anyone give an accurate answer: How does one archive one's livejournal?

Really?

By which, I mean, how does one save all the old entries?

foxfirefey January 6 2009, 17:12:52 UTC

It's not a silly question--but it would help to know a couple of things to give you a good answer.

1. Is your main concern readability or uploading to another site eventually?
2. What operating system do you have?

kwanboa January 6 2009, 17:39:48 UTC

Hi, I'd like to know as well.

1. Readability. If I have to go to another site, I'll just start over, no uploading the old entries.
2. Mac OSX Tiger.

foxfirefey January 6 2009, 18:03:27 UTC

Then I recommend LJBook, a service that turns your journal into a PDF. It won't load right now, because of the OMGPANIC. Do not panic too much--LJ will still be around for the foreseeable future and you're journal is not currently going anywhere.

djmermaid January 6 2009, 19:31:13 UTC

this is great info, thanks. do you have a rec for how to get it in a form that could be re-uploaded?

foxfirefey January 6 2009, 19:38:05 UTC

I haven't tried uploading to any services, but I have heard good things about lj-migrate.

Dreamwidth will be loading data directly from LJ.

sloot January 6 2009, 20:25:45 UTC

the DW Progress archive doesn't appear to have been updated since August. Am I looking in the wrong spot?

http://lists.dwscoalition.org/pipermail/dw-progress/

foxfirefey January 6 2009, 20:33:47 UTC

Nope, you're correct. The leads were lulled into some complacency by SUP appearing to be on the ball and making good progress on site development.

This, however, has lit a fire under them once more. A lot of work has already been done on the project (upgrading the backend, etc), and there are only some things left to implement before a beta test. It's slow going because the code base is old and crufty, and they're trying to do it right. Some things are tricky--for instance, who you watch and your "friends" list is being split. So, you can watch people without automatically trusting them.

labelleizzy January 7 2009, 02:38:39 UTC

ooo. This is a nice feature, one I have been wanting. I will bookmark them and bear them in mind for a future mirror-journal.

thank you!

lexinatrix January 6 2009, 18:59:24 UTC

There's a widget on sourceforge (Windows only) to download all your entries to CSV or XML. I've no idea how uploadable that output is to another journal system.

Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/

Also, LJ has an embedded archive thingie, but it only does a month at a time, and only to CSV (not sure if this would truncate long entries).

Link: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=8&q=archive&lang=

acroyear70 January 6 2009, 19:16:23 UTC

ljarchive doesn't want to work. there's an encoding setting that it is supposed to send in the flat protocol (something new since 2006, the last ljarchive update) that it is not sending and the instructions are all oriented towards how the profile pages looked before the recent rewrite.

basically it is telling you to go to a part of the page that no longer exists.

ljbackup worked for me so far but has no way of viewing the html of a single entry: I have to make an html view of my entire site (almost 3000 entries, nevermind comments).

acroyear70 January 6 2009, 19:23:34 UTC

I would note that ljbackup's html output is HORRID. it's configurable (there's a template file to edit) but it is utterly unreadable in its default form.

why open-source developers are never concerned with usability, I'll never know...

lexinatrix January 6 2009, 22:00:00 UTC

Ah... well I'd heard reports of ljarchive working today from other users, so maybe some folks can make use of it.

byfaith January 7 2009, 02:16:29 UTC

ljarchive worked great for me. DL the .exe file and run it once it's DLed. All you have to do is enter your user name and password, and the program DLs your entire journal in minutes.

acroyear70 January 7 2009, 02:28:49 UTC

and I did exactly that and got told there was an LJ protocol error and I needed to enter in some text encoding setting that it would tell me on the profile page only that part of the profile page doesn't exist anymore...

I know of what I speak. for *some* accounts it simply won't work because of their age, and software that hasn't been updated since 2006 won't know what's changed.

I'd fix it (the source is available) if I had the time, but I don't. It would be easier for me to use the java libraries out there (that i've already confirmed work) to write a new one than to try to figure out windows source codes from scratch.

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