Well, I don’t really know what to think about all this kerfluffle that LJ might be about to shut down any second. LJ has posted this comforting there-there statement, but what else would they say? “Yes, folks, your suspicions are correct, we’re fucked, run for the hills now?” But didn’t several of the big financial firms put out essentially identical statements asserting their good health not long before they crashed and burned?
I spent a surprisingly short amount of time last night exporting my entire LJ to xml files, going back to 2005. (Wow. Time sure flies.) I then checked out several alternatives, including deadjournal (costs money), insanejournal (doesn’t allow importing LJ posts), Blogger (supposedly allows importing but wouldn’t let me do it on an experimental attempt–and anyway, I have four blogs on Blogger already), and WordPress. WordPress allowed me to import my LJ posts–and vyrdolak was available as a user name, which it isn’t on LJ. (Some asshole is squatting on it.) I do not want to keep blog posts on Facebook. I’ve been dragged kicking and screaming over there but I still don’t trust it. I haven’t tried MySpace to see if I could import my LJ files there–but I’m not sure I’d really want to.
I can’t save comments with LJ’s export function, but most of my posts don’t get any comments. I could go through and manually save the posts that acquired comments I want to save. I really want my posts archived for my own reference, not necessarily online, and now all my LJ posts for just over three years are backed up–so I guess something good came out of this mini-panic. I suppose I’ll add LJ to my nightly backup routine just in case I get up some morning to find that LJ has gone south. *sigh*
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