breathe... backup.

[champignon]

"LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees - and offered them no severance, we're told."

OK people. Take a deep breath.

Things to remember/consider:

• There is no clear evidence that the demise of LJ is imminent. Valleywag (source of the article I've seen linked everywhere) is like

Comments

[skywayman]

Before we all panic, the latest rumor is LJ development is moving to Russian, not stopping completely. I'm sure they'll make an announcement soon.

[champignon]

Yes. The post was in response to friends panicking and not knowing how to back up their LJs. I wanted to get that info up fast.

And then talk about not panicking. I've edited and added that part now. And quoted you. :-)

[skywayman]

Awesome! You might want to link to the CNET article that is far less, uh, speculative. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10132684-36.html

[champignon]

glad it helped.

[steforama]

If you use a Mac, the scripts above are all I've seen. I thought you could just type "back up my lj" somewhere or mime this into the webcam and it would magically happen... *ducks*

LOL

The client XJournal lets you download, but saves things in an annoying way that really only lets you read through the program itself. Better than nothing I suppose.

[champignon]

:-) I added XJournal link to the post. Thanks.

[steforama]

Thanks for that other ljdump link... For some reason I was having problems getting the other one to work.

[adifferentriver]

I didn't even realize we were having a panic.

[champignon]

Some people were having a panic, anyway. :-)

Picnic?

[achasonc]

Someone is having a picnic?
Thanks for the info. Time to get a external drive too.