WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED.

[matt1993]

Apparently I just posted one of the most popular entries on LJ. Which I guess is pretty easy to do if I'm one of the only people still posting to LJ at all...

So, hi new people! Sorry for all the inside jokes that would've made much more sense[citation needed] if you'd been here 7 or 8 years ago. Before you go asking me what "HWHD" or "WTCN" or

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[paradisekendra]

Your site wishlist is EXACTLY what my wishlist is. And I'm trying to figure out a way to backup LJ community entries that have a ton of icons/artwork/etc. I haven't figured that out .. just yet.

[matt1993]

:)

I just hope that it's somehow possible to make a nearly-exact copy of my LJ on DreamWidth, even if I have to do some parts of it manually. (I was even expecting at one point that I might have to copy all 1,000+ of my entries and their comments over one by one! But seems like I probably don't have to do that on DW. May have to look at each entry one-by-one to manually adjust things that don't get copied over, though.)

I really hope DreamWidth at least has a way to include images or videos of any kind in entries. I'm planning on maybe taking a week or so to calm down (even though I'm so upset right now that it'll probably take at least 20 YEARS for me to completely calm down...) before I decide what site to back up my journal to, if any.

driveby

[ironymaiden]

Dreamwidth has everything. I'm on mobile right now, so linking is awkward, but I have the same username on DW with a bunch of public posts that will answer your questions or link to posts that will.
I got a paid account and the only thing I lost in the move were youtube embeds.

[pathvain_aelien]

I think DW is probably the best option for you, but you can definitely keep your LJ and use both if it doesn't have ALL of the same features. :) And it may have other features that LJ doesn't that you would like. It's okay. :)

[cactus_rs]

You can absolutely use images and videos on DW, but if you were hosting them on LJ, that's going to be a bit of a pickle (unless you've sent your scrapbook to public, I guess).

DW is identical to LJ functionality except that "adding" someone is no longer automatically "I want to read them AND let them read me." You can follow someone's journal without letting them read yours, or you can let them read yours without adding them to your reading page.

Importing is really easy (it's just going to take HOURS at the moment because EVERYONE IS IMPORTING). These days I update directly to DW (via a client), and I have DW set to automatically cross-post to LJ. That way my backup is automatically updated alongside my main journal. If you're updating in the web interface, there's a little ticky box for crossposting (assuming you connected DW to another account, but you have to do that to be able to import anyway).

Like ironymaiden said, DW has basically everything you want in your list. I'll go through each point on your list

[matt1993]

My ScrapBook albums are anything BUT organized anyway (my images pretty much only make sense in the entries and comments I use them in, and sometimes not even then!), so DreamWidth not having albums isn't going to be an issue.

I did think of some more things that are in some of my entries that I want to make sure I can still have: polls, LJ-cuts (DW-cuts?), at least two sticky entries (because my list of userpics by order added is one and my glossary is another, although the latter is really just an entry with the date set to 2024), a way to postpone entries until a certain date (because I use that pretty often nowadays), and a profile bio as long as the one I have right now. And a pony and a Nintendo Switch. :P

[cactus_rs]

You can still have polls and cuts. LJ legacy code works on DW, too, so you don't have to learn new markup tags. You can have two sticky entries, but only two. There's no limit on your profile, though.

[matt1993]

Yay!

[paradisekendra]

Ooops, okay forget that I asked about Dreamwidth in my other reply. It doesn't have a way to include photos/videos in your entries? Huh, that's strange.

It's not so much my entries that I'm most worried about losing. It's everyone else's! Yikes.

[matt1993]

Since I still haven't set up a DW account yet, I'm not the one to ask about what features DW does or does not have.

So don't quote me on any of this, but from what I've heard so far, I'm about 99% and 50% sure that images and videos, respectively, can be included in entries - but it's possible that they won't automatically be copied over and will have to be added manually. And it's possible that videos can't be embedded in entries on DW but can still be linked to. (Or maybe they can be embedded after all. I don't know, ask someone who already has a DreamWidth account! :) )

I was worried about losing both my entries and everyone else's at first... though that was when I thought it was possible that LJ would shut down entirely. I had no idea at all what was going on at first. :P