Prosthetic memory - Back up your journal

Back up your journal

Jan. 6th, 2009 at 1:08 PM

LJArchive. LJBook. LJSec for transferring to LJ clone sites.

LJ, Inc is laying off staff. The Valley Wag has the numbers wrong; it's 13 laid off and 17 left (at the minute), which is quite bad enough. *hugs

chasethestars and

janinedog*

I don't think LiveJournal is going to disappear tomorrow, but I am worried. http://www.dreamwidth.org/ is starting to look pretty good right now.

Where are all your haunts elsewhere on the web, in case of emergencies?

ETA: Friend me on IJ
Friend me on JF

Location:Work
Mood: crushed

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doyle_sb4 wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 01:32 pm (UTC)

Eep. I'm backing up my journal and comms tonight and tracking down fics that I only posted to comms. If it does all go horribly wrong I don't know where we're going to go...

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thewhiteowl wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 01:59 pm (UTC)

I know! *clings madly to flist* All my data's backed up, but the people...

Dreamwidth is a LiveJournal fork that some ex-LJ devs and people are working. It sounds like it'll be more like LJ pre-big business. I'm pinning quite a lot of hopes there.

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stoplookingup wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 02:23 pm (UTC)

Well, that sucks! Thanks for the heads up.

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thewhiteowl wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 02:54 pm (UTC)

You're welcome :(

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ankaret wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 02:59 pm (UTC)

Thanks for the link to Dreamwidth - I wonder when they're likely to open their doors?

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thewhiteowl wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 04:02 pm (UTC)

More information here.

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izhilzha wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 04:31 pm (UTC)

Dang it, LJ, I am a paid user! I give you money every year!

I do not hang out anywhere else on the internets, except Facebook, and I was trying to keep my RL Facebook life moderately seperate from my fannish life here. *sigh*

Guess I'd best learn how to back up my journal.

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thewhiteowl wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 11:29 pm (UTC)

I do the same with FB. InsaneJournal is where I'd go if LJ went under.

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cynthia_black wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 05:05 pm (UTC)

Eep! I hope this doesn't spell curtains for LJ :-(

Incidentally, what's the best way to back up my LJ? I've never done so, and I'd hate to lose 6 years plus of entries.

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thewhiteowl wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 11:20 pm (UTC)

LJArchive is pretty popular. LJSec is what I use for backing up on InsaneJournal.

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marymac wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 07:10 pm (UTC)

*clings to JF backup and Xanga habit*

I'm after adding you on JF, by the by.

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thewhiteowl wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 10:30 pm (UTC)

*adds you back*

Xanga! It's still around?

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marymac wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 10:33 pm (UTC)

Yep.
Although if they change the layouts again I'll probably never be able to login again.

(Argharghwhydopeoplechangethingswhy?)

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tree_and_leaf wrote:

Jan. 6th, 2009 07:21 pm (UTC)

Aaargh. What will we do without the people?

(I've also never been able to get any of the archiving tools to work, so am not backed up. Feh. But losing the network would be awful).

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