Friends Only conversion

[monsieurben]

I made a really ghetto mod of LJ.NET to convert all my old journal entries to friends only. Seems there's a lack of tools out there to do this (Googling yields only a tool that used to work

Comments

[wimbet]

I would really like to see this released. I sat there once and tried to convert my journal to friends only and it took hours.

[stuman1337]

I did the same but to convert friends-only entries into a specific friends group. Doing it manually would have taken hours. But it was a very quick hack and I seem to have deleted the code. But it seems like a good idea. I'd say make it a function in LJ.NET, just because it seems like it might be easier for you and would make it more easily accessable.

[spliffrd]

im totally interested - that way i can make my journal private and public at my whim
i ws just thinking of this this morning

[hyuri]

I’d be interested in seeing the code for this. I’ve thought about adding something like it in the past, but I already had too many projects on my plate to look for more. That, and being too lazy to figure out the proper way to iterate through the entries. ¬_¬

[monsieurben]

If I have time this weekend (or if I can find some time at work) I'll clean it up and share it.

[hyuri]

Fair enough. I don’t really object to messy code, though, as long as I can get a diff out of it to see what got changed. ^_^

[monsieurben]

Heh, it's not so much of a messy code thing as an embarassingly ghetto technique thing. Not being too familar with the structure of LJ.NET--this being my first look at the code beyond a small tweak to get it to originally compile--I used the Manager dialog to get the entry list and the Post/Update dialog to make the changes, so there are windows flying everywhere when it runs. For future usefulness and flexibility the clean version will use code more adapted to this sort of thing. The current method may be too dangerous; I managed to accidentally delete my last journal entry while testing it. (Funny how if you don't properly initialize a form, its content is blank. Oops! Hence the flashing windows...)

[mdz61384]

would definately be interested in seeing this. please do implement it, if at all possible

I'm also a fan of the uniform fonts batch mod as well

[monsieurben]

I'll get to it soon, but unfortunately some extra crap snuck up on me at work. So I couldn't do it this past weekend as I'd hoped, but hopefully I make good use of the long weekend coming up.