Simsecrets a little early this week because I'm feeling a little under the weather and I might fall asleep. Short news week this week due to IRL events I'm guessing. Also, if anyone knows anything about scraping LiveJournal and porting over to Dreamwidth let me know. I know that LJ is based in Russia and because of all the tech sanctions I'm worried about the site going down.
Anyway, have a great weekend! Try not to worry too much!
Dreamwidth has importer, not sure if it shows up without an account but it's at https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/importer iirc you just link your accounts and let it handle it. Community this big might take days though but hopefully it's doable even if you go with it only as a backup rather than moving there for good.
Thanks everyone for the importer advice but unfortunately, I already tried that. It didn't work and when I spoke to dreamwidth support for advice they told me that LJ has been blocking attempts to backup content for a while now. I've actually been trying to back up since January because I thought something might happen.
I'll keep trying but I'm worried that it won't be possible. I've found some alternatives, but it requires some knowledge of coding. So I don't know if I should keep trying the DW importer that MIGHT work or the hard-to-use terminal program built on python.
Either way, I'll keep trying. I'm NOT going to let SimSecret get mass deleted on my watch. I mean, take this is with a grain of salt because I can't tell the future but I am worried because they already blocked Russia from Facebook, there have been calls to sanction Russia but cutting them off from the internet, and all the current sanctions could affect the company in Russia that owns LJ.
Don't worry, we have the Sims kink meme backed up. I don't think I have it publicly available yet but we backed up a LOT of LJ stuff a while ago because the automated web archive crawlers don't usually get it.
I was part of the great LJRP "Exodus" to Dreamwidth in 2011-2012. You can definitely port an entire community over, including years and years of comments/images/etc. At the time, Dreamwidth actually added new servers to accommodate the massive rp communities being ported over to it. Don't be afraid to reach out to the site admins, they generally are good with working with people last I heard.
For anyone worried: Dreamwidth is a lot like how LJ *used* to be, and there are already kink memes well established there. We'll be fine.
Anyway, have a great weekend! Try not to worry too much!
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You can read the reply I got here.
I'll keep trying but I'm worried that it won't be possible. I've found some alternatives, but it requires some knowledge of coding. So I don't know if I should keep trying the DW importer that MIGHT work or the hard-to-use terminal program built on python.
Either way, I'll keep trying. I'm NOT going to let SimSecret get mass deleted on my watch. I mean, take this is with a grain of salt because I can't tell the future but I am worried because they already blocked Russia from Facebook, there have been calls to sanction Russia but cutting them off from the internet, and all the current sanctions could affect the company in Russia that owns LJ.
Wish me luck everyone!
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how am i going to save all the kinkmeme fanfics??????
i wanna kms
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For anyone worried: Dreamwidth is a lot like how LJ *used* to be, and there are already kink memes well established there. We'll be fine.
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