My apocalypse dreams never warned me about any of this...

[matt1993]

Okay, it's become ABUNDANTLY clear that EVERY community I've ever posted in on LJ is probably going to be gone by the end of the month, so this is definitely the best time (unless I can go back in time and do this several years ago...) for me to finally start creating a backup account on DreamWidth.

Dear owners/maintainers of _dreams_, add_me, asperger, corrupted_wish, goodbandnames, iwish, newfriends, omgrandom, randomthought, strongbademail, suggestions

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[dhatchling]

I'll go in order here:

- They will all port over, no problems.
- Yes.
- Complete journal entries will be backed up. The system will not backup your comments on any community, you will need to handle those yourself. Yes, it sucks, I know, I'm sorry.
- I would guess that communities that have a heavier basis in reality (like add_me, asperger, etc) and less toward things like fandoms and fun (like omgrandom, randomthought, etc) will be the first to go, unless the owners are adamant about not abandoning LJ. I don't know them all, so I can't really speak for them. I'm basing this off of patterns that I have seen so far. I hope this helps.

[matt1993]

They will all port over, no problems.

Not even if I start the transfer process before I have a paid account on DreamWidth? (I have 116* userpics and the default limit on DreamWidth is only 15 - will the transfer process replace 101 of my userpics with the default?)

Complete journal entries will be backed up. The system will not backup your comments on any community, you will need to handle those yourself. Yes, it sucks, I know, I'm sorry.

By complete journal entries, though, do you mean even my entries in LJ communities? If so, that works out fine because my community entries are what I'm the most concerned about losing - I still have all my email notifications about comments even from back when I first joined LiveJournal, so I can reread old comments that way if nothing else. (Except for if I posted a comment and no one replied to it, but I'm not very concerned about losing those.)

I would guess that communities that have a heavier basis in reality (like add_me, asperger, etc) and less toward things like fandoms and fun (like

[dhatchling]

Not even if I start the transfer process before I have a paid account on DreamWidth? (I have 116* userpics and the default limit on DreamWidth is only 15 - will the transfer process replace 101 of my userpics with the default?)

If you upgrade your DW account prior to a Premier/Seed account, then you will have room for 250 icons. The next level down will only avail you room for 100 icons. I'm not sure what will happen to the other 101 icons. I imagine that they would go to /dev/null if you didn't have your account already upgraded.

By complete journal entries, though, do you mean even my entries in LJ communities? If so, that works out fine because my community entries are what I'm the most concerned about losing - I still have all my email notifications about comments even from back when I first joined LiveJournal, so I can reread old comments that way if nothing else. (Except for if I posted a comment and no one replied to it, but I'm not very concerned about losing those.)

No. It will only backup your complete journal. That

[matt1993]

If you upgrade your DW account prior to a Premier/Seed account, then you will have room for 250 icons. The next level down will only avail you room for 100 icons. I'm not sure what will happen to the other 101 icons. I imagine that they would go to /dev/null if you didn't have your account already upgraded.

I went ahead and upgraded my account before I started copying my entries over. And I finally saw in the FAQ that if I did exceed the limit by copying userpics over from LJ, only my default userpic would've been copied over until I redid the transfer after upgrading my account.

No. It will only backup your complete journal. That is, it will only backup matt1993. It will not backup any community because community accounts are not personal accounts. DW will backup a personal account. DW will backup a community, but ONLY if you are a maintainer or owner of said community. It is spelled out here: https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=230... )

[pathvain_aelien]

I hope you get it all worked out. :)

[matt1993]

So do I...

[pathvain_aelien]

For some reason it's just showing your comment, but not which post or what I wrote so I have no idea what you are agreeing with me about. :)

[matt1993]

Well, then I disagree! ;)

(I don't remember what it is either. I'll check after I post this reply. If it only shows a few comments, click "Thread" to see all of them.)

EDIT: It was "I hope you get it all worked out".

[padabegood2me]

Thank you for adding me, sweetie. :)

[matt1993]

You're welcome! :)

[padabegood2me]

For adding user names, on Dreamwidth, you must type it < user name=" the name " > without spaces. :)

[matt1993]

I know that's how you link to a DW username on a DW entry/comment - what I was asking about is linking to a DW username on a LJ entry/comment or vice versa.

[matt1993]

I'm just feeling really paranoid lately because so many websites I like have gone down or shown signs that they might go down, several users and communities on LJ have already disappeared over the years, etc. - so I want to be sure I have an archive somewhere of the entries I posted in communities just in case any more of them disappear...

[glowing_dragon]

Yay! I got an email notification this afternoon that you added me on DW! :D

Edit: You can set up cross-posting from DW to LJ, but since I did that years ago, I can't remember how to do it now.

[matt1993]

I know - I have it set up :)

I'm feeling pretty stressed out because there's still a lot I need to do if I want to make my DreamWidth journal look presentable, make it match my LJ as closely as possible, and/or have all of my community entries also be in it just in case those communities disappear like autism did recently, let alone all three.

I JUST got done editing both my LJ and DW profiles to reflect the fact that I'm now also on DW (and updating links to my LJ entries so that they go to LJ entries on my LJ profile and DW entries on my DW profile, just in case), but I still have a lot to do.

My to-do list right now:

- make http://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/278009.html a sticky post like its LJ counterpart (http://matt1993.livejournal.com/282623.html) is

- make sure that my LJ entries imported correctly

- manually copy over my entries from communities and their comments

And that's just what wasn't

[glowing_dragon]

If you have enough free time to focus on just this project, you'll get it done! :)

[matt1993]

I probably won't have enough free time, though - that's over a thousand entries to edit to fix broken images / broken videos / links that go to the LJ versions of entries instead of DW versions / etc. and add tags to again, and then probably at least a hundred community entries to MANUALLY copy over along with their comments... :(