Re: LJ firing

[zvi_likes_tv]

Dear fandom:

Please to hold back on the panic.

Did you know that there are still people who have their primary fannish internet interaction on Usenet? (For the unfamiliar: Usenet is a bit like an old-fashioned Bulletin Board and a bit like an enormous collection of mailing lists.) Livejournal is a tool. It is not fandom, and if it bites the dust

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[skipthedemon]

This is a good and useful post, thank you. I came online to a bunch of vague 'Sky is falling!', wings flapping, and got very confused.

[zvi_likes_tv]

You're welcome.

[melannen]

Actually, the last version of ljarchive will let you back up posts & comments on any community you have posting access to. (It may skip locked community posts if you're not the maintainer - I don't remember - but it will definitely get all public content.)

I don't know if any of the other backup utilities do, but that one definitely will.

(On the downside, I'm pretty sure journalfen still doesn't support openID. Which is a shame.)

But yes. Backup, and spreading your fandom experience outside of lj, are both good ideas regardless of the state of LJ at the moment. Thank you for the helpful posts!

[zvi_likes_tv]

Well, they claim they do: http://www.journalfen.net/openid/

Their system may not be as, um, robust as some other OpenID providers, though.

[stewardess]

http://www.fandom411.com/

That's where you can search for an LJ member's other blogs and websites.

[stewardess]

I forgot to mention: it's not a search bot. People have to enter their own data.

Many eggs in many baskets is ALWAYS the way to go

[selkiechick]

There may be tool here for archiving communities

http://antennapedia.livejournal.com/266462.html

but the jury is still out on if it does or does not preserve comments. I will report back as flist affiliates test it and report back, if there are interested parties.

[jennyo]

Thank you for the overwhelming amount of SANE pouring from this post.