Be prepared. It's the Boy Scout motto.

[ksleet]

No doubt you've seen the news about layoffs at LiveJournal bouncing around your friends list already. I would not say panic is called for (in these situations you should hold off on panicking until the CEO does an interview telling the media that everything's just fine and going according to plan, which means the company has about two weeks to live

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[geckipede]

Can you force LJarchive to save your journal to some sensible human readable format? I've tried using LogJam which seems to be the linux equivalent and it got me a load of xml files.

[alycewilson]

LJarchive actually mimicks the look of your original journal. I used it today, too. Also, I came across this entry, which gives a full explanation of how to back up your LJ onto another blog:

http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/284083.html

[harena]

Unfortunately LJArchive seems to require at least Windows 2000/XP and the only existing Windows machine I have of my 3 is a mere Win98. The other two are Kubuntu. :/

[packbat]

ljdump worked for me - wonky formatting, though.

[harena]

I shall have to try that out, thanks!

[packbat]

There's a tutorial here for Mac users that might be applicable.

[hentaikid]

If you have a wordpress blog anywhere (Wordpress.com maybe? I dunno if their hosted ones have the option but probably) you can import your posts from LJ (And other blogging platforms)

I follow a lot of my webcomics through LJ feeds but I'm conflicted as I don't really understand the logic of using a paid service to give a 3rd party website your content for it's readers.

I guess most webcomics people have the mentality of "give the comic to my readers when and how they want it" but this particular application never made much sense to me. Having a lj and telling people to go to your site when it updates like you do always made more sense (Even if you don't actually have ads or merch on the site)

Anyway I digress, if someone bought LJ I don't expect them to close it down and throw away the whole investment, but it's reasonable to expect it to become a lot shittier in services. Maybe people will get a clue and start using their own websites!

[kgbooklog]

I follow a lot of my webcomics through LJ feeds but I'm conflicted as I don't really understand the logic of using a paid service to give a 3rd party website your content for it's readers.

I'm not sure I follow what you're saying... do you think most webcartoonists pay LJ to carry their feeds? From what I've seen, the syndications are usually created by a fan who wanted it and happened to already have a paid account.

Or are you talking about comics hosted on LJ?

[hentaikid]

If you have a LJ you should use it to drive people to your site, but the way LJ feeds are set up, I myself have stopped going to many people's sites in favour of the convenience of opening my friends page.