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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!

[seraphcelene]

Thanks! I really better get on this because, there's a lot up here that I'd want to keep. Will check out GreatJournal, possibly, this weekend.

GUH! The whole internet acess thing is annoying!

RE: LJ/6A - It's really odd to see the news bites repeatedly saying that the journals were deleted when in reality they were suspended and that by the time the news got hold of it they were already in the process of reinstating the journals. Kinda sucks for LJ cause they're going to catch hell from all corners on this even though they did try to rectify the situation responsibly and as soon as they discovered their mistake.