Not yet time for an epicaricacy egg cream
As you may have heard elsewhere, LJ today laid off a large portion of its staff. Alarmingly, they did so without providing a severance package (or more than a week's notice), which speaks to fairly dire financial straits. (The Valleywag report that it was more than half the staff is wrong, but it was also far above the near customary Silicon Valley 10%, also.)
While this has had the salubrious effect of refocusing Mark and Denise on getting Dreamwidth functional, the estimated time to launch is still Not All That Soon Actually.
nmg has compiled a list of LJ back up tools, reproduced below:
If it says perl or python, it can work with Mac or Linux with minor amounts of fiddling. Also, if you post with a client, double-check its features. I use Logjam and make backups of my entries on a monthly basis with it.
I've seen at least one report that LJArchive is being bounced, so I think I'll just make a note to backup with one of these tools (comments! comments forever!) for my next scheduled backup on 2/1. If you haven't been making backups, you still might want to wait until the end of the week to get yours.
One cautionary note: ljdump, at least, does not archive the edited version of a comment it has already archived. I do not know if the other archive programs have the same issue, but from the description of the problem ( live on LJ compare w/ archived w/ ljdump) I suspect that they do. It does gracefully pick up the edits to an entry.
ETA: added xjournal from neverneverfic, lj-sec from googling. Also, in the next post, someone mentions that LJarchive and ljmigrate can archive entries to communities. They cannot archive comments to communities, a limitation imposed by LJ.
While this has had the salubrious effect of refocusing Mark and Denise on getting Dreamwidth functional, the estimated time to launch is still Not All That Soon Actually.
nmg has compiled a list of LJ back up tools, reproduced below:
- ljArchive (Windows only, archives entries and comments)
- ljmigrate (needs python, archives entries, comments and userpics)
- ljdump (needs python, archives entries and comments)
- LJBook (produces PDF of your LJ, currently overwhelmed)
- LiveJournal Backup (Windows only, archives entries and comments)
- LJSM (needs perl, archives entries, comments, memories, userpics, other images)
- jbackup (needs perl, archives entries and comments)
- LiveJournal Export (month by month as XML, archives entries only)
- LJ-SEC (.NET/Windows only) (archives entries)
- xjournal (Mac only) archives entries
If it says perl or python, it can work with Mac or Linux with minor amounts of fiddling. Also, if you post with a client, double-check its features. I use Logjam and make backups of my entries on a monthly basis with it.
I've seen at least one report that LJArchive is being bounced, so I think I'll just make a note to backup with one of these tools (comments! comments forever!) for my next scheduled backup on 2/1. If you haven't been making backups, you still might want to wait until the end of the week to get yours.
One cautionary note: ljdump, at least, does not archive the edited version of a comment it has already archived. I do not know if the other archive programs have the same issue, but from the description of the problem ( live on LJ compare w/ archived w/ ljdump) I suspect that they do. It does gracefully pick up the edits to an entry.
ETA: added xjournal from neverneverfic, lj-sec from googling. Also, in the next post, someone mentions that LJarchive and ljmigrate can archive entries to communities. They cannot archive comments to communities, a limitation imposed by LJ.