LJ in financial trouble?

[ron_newman]

A friend this morning called my attention to this Gawker news article: The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network:
LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 12 of 28 employees - and offered them no severance
The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of

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[dianalily]

Hi Ron - I just posted this in thetathx1138's journal and thought you might be interested.

After following the Mac directions (and hitting return after each of the "Type:" instructions), all my journal comments and entries have downloaded to Users -> [my computer username] -> ljdump1.2 -> dianalily

Within the dianalily file is the entire download. There are documents starting with "C" and with "L". I dragged one of each to RichText to open (if I just click on the document, an empty browser window opens up).

The "C" documents are all comments made in reply to an entry, date included.

The "L" documents are also numbered in sequential order and are my journal entries. And they're in XML format. So the date is included, but the format is decidedly not elegant.

I hope this helps you! I'm not a Mac expert by any means but wanted to let you know following those instructions you posted did achieve the desired result of archiving my LJ.

[ron_newman]

Thanks. What I want to do is back up the davis_square community (where I'm one of the maintainers), not my private journal. Backing up both posts and comments is important. How would I do this?

[dianalily]

Antennapedia explains a method that appears to archive in a more orderly manner than the method I used above.

I can only suggest giving it a try and seeing what happens.

Otherwise, it will take cutting and pasting each comment entry into each journal entry. And that sounds like more work than creating tags.

I have to run but will be back later, perhaps with more answers if I can talk to people!

[mkb_technologie]

Use LJSM. Submit your username and password using the -u option and give your community name as the username to archive.

[ron_newman]

I did this. It downloaded all of davis_square but took several hours. Also, it doesn't unfold comments unless I use the -t switch to ship my username and password off to a Russian server -- something I'm not willing to do.

[mkb_technologie]

You do this every time you log into LiveJournal.

edit: Oh wait, that's the threader option. I see.

[ron_newman]

Well yeah, but I trust some random http://lj.setia.ru/threader/threader.php site less than I trust LJ.

(Also, aren't LJ's servers still located in the US?)

[mkb_technologie]

SUP owns LJ, Inc. LJ, Inc. owns the servers, so as far as I'm concerned, they're Russian.