Conversion of Journal to a Community

[unrequited666]

Title
Conversion of Journal to a Community

Short, concise description of the idea
To allow a journal to be converted to a community without deleting entries pre-existing in the journal

Full description of the idea
To allow a journal to be converted to a community without deleting entries pre-existing in the journal
An ordered list of benefits

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Comments

[azurelunatic]

And here's a suggestion for the other way around: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/812056.html

[foxfirefey]

One design issue: I think the posts or comments made by that journal would need to be attached to a different user, since communities don't make posts or comments. So, the conversion process would need to convert all those entries/comments to another journal of the converter's choosing. This is very similar to renaming, however, so the same fee would have to apply. Otherwise, people could use it to rename their journals and avoid the fee.

[pauamma]

You could make the maintainer of the community be the poster of all entries on it.

[sleepfighter]

I like this idea and refinements.

+1

[turlough]

+1

[nympholept]

I agree to the idea.

But it may be so difficult to implement to be next to impossible.
If the same set of code was used and the only difference between journal posts and community posts was a flag, it may even be easily done.
But I don't know enough about LJ programming.

[manubibi]

I second this. It'd be really wonderful if I could turn my journal into a community without deleting years of posts.