Onoz! Teh Sky, It Is Falling!

[uhlrik]

Well, I may have somewhat overstated that. You can forgive me later, I am sure.

As almost everybody on LJ is likely aware now, there are guys running around with "the end is nigh!" sandwich boards due to the signs of the times (to wit: the firing of over 2/3 of LJ's employees, likely an indication that LJ is going on life support before too much

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[meta4life]

I already have a Wordpress blog and will probably retreat to that, if it becomes necessary. I will miss my cross_stitch group though. Unlikely they'll all move that way with me. :(

I did back up my LJ the other day, though. It just irks me that I can't take the comments with me unless I install a Windoze emulator to run one of the backup programs... Ah well.

[lucretiasheart]

How did you back up your LJ? I really need to know.

*looks at stranger with hope shining in eyes*

[meta4life]

I used the Export LJ thingie.

http://www.livejournal.com/export.bml

One month at a time, no comments or anything else. I backed up my scrapbook manually.

It's not a great option, but it worked.

[lucretiasheart]

Hmmm... I have 7 years worth of writing every single day. That would take me a LONG time to do...

*pouts*

[uhlrik]

The following tool can supposedly back up your LJ as well, and though I haven't taken a good look at it yet supposedly it can get comments too.
http://fawx.com/software/ljarchive/

[lucretiasheart]

Kay-- I'll have to check it out. Thanks!