I just posted a poll-post over on Livejournal, asking people's DW usernames, so I have a handy correspondence mapping, for when I reinstantiate my friends filters ( Read more... )

Some people have different usernames on LJ and DW. Some people's LJ username is had by somebody else entirely over on DW, which is important to know when giving people access to your stuff!

If you are a friend, I'd appreciate knowing (and in some cases being reminded :) who you are over on DW, especially if it's not obvious - but even if it is ( Read more... )

Apparently DW uses the same awful interface for managing filters as LJ does. Is there any way to do a bulk import of usernames into an access filter? Where I provide a list of usernames in text and the filter I want them added to, and that happens when I click a button? Or do I really have to point-and-click my way through each. individual. ( Read more... )

I am hearing credible reports that:

• The LJ servers are now in Russia.

• There has been a massive uptick in migrations from Cyrillic users into Dreamwidth.

I am hearing unverified reports that:

• There is some sort of political purge of accounts happening in the Cyrillic side of LJ.

See previous post for sources, evidence ( Read more... )

I am going to be backing my journal up to Dreamwidth.org shortly, and expect subsequently to post to LJ via DW's crossposting feature.

LJ USERSThe backup and crosspost processes involve a security vulnerability to anybody who has "friended" on LJ the person backing up (me): the LJ user making the back up has to give DW's server their own username ( Read more... )

Okay, in addition to being sandbagged by both familial and clinical crises, being in ongoing low-grade physical pain and chronic exhaustion, and the general stress of world events plus my having to be the professional grown-up for other people dealing with the stress of world events, plus, you know, writing every available second and doing bare ( Read more... )

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....aaaaaaand now my email host is being DDOSed, so I'm not getting into my email.

Also, in attempting to look something up in my local backup of my email, I accidentally[*] triggered a process which is now hosing my backup server, and has been for the last half hour.

*le sigh*

[* That tired. And now, for my next trick, I am going to try to ( Read more... )

I've reported it to Support.

Welcome new readers! FYI, I'm not typically on the internet much on Tuesday and Wednesdays, because they're my long days at the clinics I work for.

As a therapist my job is to sit and talk with people. To translate that into white-collar tech-worker middle-class-ese: to be in meetings. Since a clinic only gets paid, and consequently I only get ( Read more... )