[LJ, DW, Admin] URGENT: It's time

[siderea]

I am going to be backing my journal up to Dreamwidth.org shortly, and expect subsequently to post to LJ via DW's crossposting feature.

LJ USERSThe backup and crosspost processes involve a security vulnerability to anybody who has "friended" on LJ the person backing up (me): the LJ user making the back up has to give DW's server their own username

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[lyorn]

I would like your input on this: It will be a few days until I have the time to do this, how urgent is this IYO?

[siderea]

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[lyorn]

Hm, suspected something along that lines and decided that backup is good, and that thank-you notes could wait.

I noticed that over the course of the month my very small and irrelevant LJ shot up from place 10K to 4K, so something had to be going on, and it was not a sudden surge of popularity.

[kelkyag]

What lyorn said, and ... quite plausibly you don't wish to discuss it here, or you would have said, but why now?

ETA. Found, I think. Oh. Hrm.

[chenoameg]

kelkyag, would you forward me whatever you found please?

[siderea]

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[kelkyag]

(Done earlier in email; the references siderea's more recent posts are more thorough.

[m_danson]

Why now? What's up?

[siderea]

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[much_ado]

LJ isn't showing me anyone's comments (on this or other posts currently) so if you've already answered this, my apologies, but:

The reason I have to migrate abruptly also pertains to you, fellow LJ users, so you may wish to do likewise if you haven't already.

So... what's the reason??

[ron_newman]

Why do you think we all need to leave LJ urgently? Is there some danger that LJ will shut down?