ANNOUNCEMENT

[caffienekitty]

I've always said I'd stick with Livejournal until it dies, but the limit has now been reached. So, unfortunately, over the next long while I will be transferring my primary journal activities to my Dreamwidth fractured mirror

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[caffienekitty]

There's some good resource posts since this is something like the third mass fandom exodus from LJ in the past 5 years or so. This one seems to include links to most of the others I've found.

[caffienekitty]

Come with me to Dreamwidth. It's free and quite similar to LJ, and has a built-in import function that puts all your old LJ posts in your Dreamwidth journal.

There is a lot of stuff on your journal that would be heartbreaking to just have not exist anywhere anymore.

Just a heads-up

[marieldraconis]

When you move things over to Dreamwidth, you need to update your links for anything going to LJ (when this started being a mess, I went and looked at your DW backup because I love your reaction posts, and I noticed that your backup index post still had all its links pointing back here) so they point to the DW post instead.

Unfortunately, I can't give you any advice on anything else you asked (I just mirrored on DW back in February, when watsons_woes started getting worried). But I happened to notice the link problem on my own new DW, so I've been passing it along whenever I see someone moving.

Good luck with the transition.

Re: Just a heads-up

[caffienekitty]

Yeah, I found that out a while after I started mirroring to DW. The graphics all link back to the images here too, and I'm guessing as soon as my paid account runs out here, all the graphics will go poof. That's why I was asking about hosting sites and ways to download from scrapbook in this post.

What I will probably do (after I get the downloading and hosting figured out) is pick away at fixing the coding a post at a time, and if someone requests a specific post, I'll fix the links and whatnot on that one next. I really need to get the graphics straightened out first though so I can do all the link editing once and not have to go back again for the imgs.

That said, I just worked a 10 hour shift and got home at 2 am and have a similar day tomorrow, so coding and writing etc is unfortunately having to take a back seat for a while.

Ugh. I keep wishing fandom had clubbed together somehow and bought LJ when Six Apart or whoever was selling. Things would have been so much simpler.