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[seraphcelene]

So … Drama.

I'm off-line for a couple of days and the Apocalypse looms. Nice going, LJ. I hope fandom isn't planning to make a run for all available exits because I like my little corner of LJ, despite the panic and "over reaction to a small but well publicized group's attempts to remove content they don't like" (thanks, D).

Now, I need to know … what's GeneralJournal and should I be getting one? How are we archiving our LJ's? Straight to your hard drive or is there someplace else in the ether? HOW do you archive your LJ?

Point me to answers, kids!

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[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Heya babe.

I have links at home to several archiving tools, so I'll post again when I get there and can hunt them up.

A bunch of us created GreatestJournal (http://www.greatestjournal.com/) accounts last year when LJ was blacked out for a couple days (IIRC it was a weekend so you'd never have noticed, ha ha! In fact I barely noticed, but everyone was mentioning GJ so I got one to be on the safe side). It's just a backup.

Now there's also InsaneJournal (http://www.insanejournal.com/) and I've set up an account there too (but haven't posted or prettied it yet). Per some of my friends it's easier to use/friendlier interface than GJ ... but I think more folks we know are at GJ.

I am thinking of these mainly as backup. The fact that LJ/6A realized their gaffe and are apparently unsuspending something like half of the affected journals is very good news. If they had NOT taken this step it's true that much of fandom may have migrated altogether. As it is, I think most people are looking to have backup areas where fandom can keep in touch with communities/f'lists set up similarly to LJ ... in case we ever need them.

I haven't archived my LJ. I sure wouldn't want to lose anything I've got in my Memories ... but I don't think any of the archiving tools save that, so all those posts would have to be looked up & saved individually.

Anyway I'll post more when I get home!

this makes LJ a handsome PDF

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

http://www.ljbook.com/

[lettered.livejournal.com]

I should've emailed you with a HOLY SHIT! heads up.

GreatestJournal, as diachrony states. I got one, but as a precaution. I haven't been online much today so I don't know how most have reacted to LJ's response, but I had never planned to leave unless LJ didn't reply or I wasn't satisfied with their reply. I'm not at all satisfied about what LJ did, but their reply does make me want to give them another chance. However, if there is a mass exodus of fandom I am SO there. I'm tkp on GreatestJournal, and I'm keeping that account, just in case LJ ever pulls a stunt like this again. (Another thing: people were putting "lj_refugee" in their interests lists so they could use the interest lists to find people from on lj.

LJbook for backup, as kormantic linked. However, I used this LJ archive (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/), because LJbook uses PDF and I hate PDF. The archive deal was fairly easy to install and seems (so far!) *very* easy to use. I've been meaning to do this for a long while anyway; it's not a good idea to rely on anyone else to hold masses of your ideas and thoughts and creations and stories. LJ archive allows you to save your lj to your hard drive.

If you want more answers I've maybe got 'em!

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Deleted previous comment, corrected version below:

Here are the archiving links I've found:

LJ Book (http://www.ljbook.com/) (the one kormantic recommended)
LJ Archive (http://fawx.com/software/ljarchive) (this is the same one tkp recommended; this link goes directly to the archiving tool area)
LJ Dump (http://hewgill.com/software/ljdump/)

I have no idea how they perform. I think LJ Book and SourceForge LJ Archive look the best. I've never used anything similar, so I'd go by friend recommendations.