LJ housekeeping and the rest of Taskmaster

[hamsterwoman]

It's so sad -- my LJ friendspage at this point is mostly RSS feeds and people posted about leaving Livejournal. And I think for the first time I got more people commenting on a personal (as opposed to fannish) post over on DW than on LJ, although with the ongoing threads, my post about Ukraine on LJ still has quite a few more comments than the DW

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[lab_jazz]

Yesterday I imported all my journal entries and comments to DW. It only took about 15 minutes start to finish and it was all done.
I don't want to shift to DW, but if I'm the only one left here in LJ from my flist, there isn't much point in me staying

[hamsterwoman]

After I saw the DW_maintenance post about them rerouting all power to the importer essentially, I gave it a shot with importing some old LJ communities I want to make sure don't poof out of existence, and it's been going very fast!

but if I'm the only one left here in LJ from my flist, there isn't much point in me staying

Yeah, exactly... I do have enough flisters who are not planning to use DW at all or only have them as a last resort, not actively using, so I'm not going anywhere for the time being. But who knows what will actually happen in the future...

[dieastra]

I did my last import on DW in December 2019, never thought about it since the pandemic started.
I really only use it as a back-up ever since we first were worried LJ would go away, and we're still here.

I was staying in the GDR until the lights went out, I certainly am staying here LOL Funny but also a bit sad though that this is what brings everyone together.

But my main place to chat and make friends is Twitter right now. It has the ability to tag famous people and hope for a like or even a comment, and I am happily using that. Some really love to chat to their fans.

[hamsterwoman]

I was doing periodic backups to DW for a while since first getting my DW account, just to have another copy of the stuff in the cloud. But about 2 years ago enough of my flist had gone DW-only, no longer reading LJ or crossposting to it, that I had to start actually using DW to post and read, since I didn't want to lose touch with the.

I was staying in the GDR until the lights went out, I certainly am staying here LOL

Heh at the comparison :) But, yeah, same, I'm planning to stay until the bitter end.

It has the ability to tag famous people and hope for a like or even a comment, and I am happily using that

It's definitely a very different sort of interaction! But of course very cool to be able to show off your scenes to the deserved appreciation of the actors!

[meathiel]

I've still not managed to import comments to DW. Still trying, though.
I'll have to clean up entries over there as I've posted manually and now the entries appear twice. Gah!
I've used BlogBooker regularly, so at least I have everything backed up until the end of February there. Phew.

[hamsterwoman]

I imported a bunch of communities last night, and comments did choke once or twice, but the next time I ran the importer, they went through -- so definitely worth trying again, I would say!

The duplicate entries do annoy me, since there's no good way to clean them up -- with the crossposter broken, they have different comments, so it's not like I can delete one of the duplicates... I guess I could make the LJ import one private, but I think I'm just going to leave them alone.

I hadn't backed up my LJ comments to DW since September last year -- I try to do it every 3 months or so, but just as I got around to trying, in Jan, the importer functionality stopped working. So I was just getting close to the 6 months free backup limit on BlogBooker when I got that to work. Which I was glad to have, but the comments imported into BlogBooker weirdly for me, so I'm very glad the DW importer finally worked for comments!

[spellingmistake]

А DW это что такое?/What is a DW?

[hamsterwoman]

(Отвечать я буду по английски, особенно про вещи такого типа, но читаю свободно на обоих языках, так что как тебе удобней

[spellingmistake]

Sounds like a nice thing to have.)))
Maybe I will make a copy of my journal there too.

[hamsterwoman]

Even before I started using DW actively, the ability to import a full backup was a very nice functionality I enjoyed and did regularly, even just to have a full copy if my LJ got hacked or something.

Dreamwidth has its own quirks, but I do think it's fairly intuitive for LJ users, and the support documentation on the site is pretty good, I find.

[enchanted_jae]

I plan to stick it out here until the bitter end, but I am on DW, too. It's just all so confusing and frustrating right now.

:/

[hamsterwoman]

I'm glad to have been able to friend LJ-primary people like you on DW, just in case LJ does go poof suddenly. But definitely hoping that it won't.

[perpetual]

That's what my LJ friends page looks like right now, too. I've got the whole backlog of entries and comments taken care of, but now I'm fretting over the smaller things, like layout and messages, that can't be easily moved.

Glad you managed to import your history!

[hamsterwoman]

Glad you were also able to migrate most everything over! (I didn't even think about messages, damn... I don't use that feature a ton, but I do have some messages that I would hate to lose, meh... :/

When I first started using DW to read my flist and crosspost, rather than just periodically back up my LJ, I didn't really feel like it was "home" until I had my layout set up and all my icons uploaded. I never did manage to find a style that looked the same as what I had on LJ, but I found one that was close to a previous LJ style I had, and that was close enough that I no longer felt like I was living out of a suitcase in a motel, if you know what I mean...

[perpetual]

Yes, exactly! I'm trying to nest and it feels weird to have some things look the same and then come across others that are obstinately different.

Today I went through fourteen pages of LJ messages, copypasted some of them into a doc, and deleted them all. One step closer. Next problem is images.