NOTE: as of the timne of writing this entry, this only happens on LJ, not on IJ. Thus the examples below fail. See this entry on LJ for working examples.

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There's some hubbub over job cuts at LiveJournal that are not just a couple, but seem to be about half the US or at least San Francisco staff. ValleyWag has managed to misreport it as being (even) worse than it really is. While I do not expect LiveJournal to suddenly curl up and die, this is probably as good a time as any to point out a few things:

If you want to do a simple (but tedious if you've had an LJ for several years) backup, LJ has this Export Journal page. The tedious part is that it can only back up a single month at a time, so can get fiddly. If you want do backups or transfers another way, there are various scripts. There are also downloadable clients that can be used to download as well as upload.

Since Spring 2007, when LJ seemed to be utterly determined to screw itself up by committing acts of egregious idiocy and then blaming the actions on its customers, I have had another account Vakkotaur over at InsaneJournal. Lousy journal name, good service. IJ's owner points has posted about the situation.

I have been simulcasting my journal to both IJ and LJ since January of last year. Much, but not all, of my LJ has been mirrored on IJ as well.

Orvan Ox also has his journal over on IJ. To see his posts on your LiveJournal friends list, you can add him as orvan_ox_ij. The downside is that those entries will not be preserved by LJ and so comments left on LJ will disappear with the old posts - comments left on the IJ version will not disappear. Without an IJ account, you can still leave comments by using OpenID which is supported by both IJ and LJ.

Current Mood: calm

There is no game.

Current Mood: calm

A few days ago I posted a link to a list of questions used in that "30 Questions" thing that's been going around LJ (and, I assume, other places) for a while. Last night someone pointed out another link to the questions. The interesting thing is a comment on that posting, pointing out that some questions had changed.

( Which version did you get? )

Current Mood: quixotic

Trying to keep up with all the goings on in regards to LiveJournal policy and implementations? Don't want to have to friend the proliferating number of communities across which information is diffused?

You might give the_lj_herald a look. It attempts to consolidate LiveJournal updates and point them out. If you think that this seems far too useful and sensible for LiveJournal to do, you're right.

From the user info page:

The LJ Herald is not an official community. Its editors are not employees of LiveJournal, Inc./Six Apart/SUP nor are they Support volunteers.

If anyone reading didn't realize what exactly my last post was about, the explanation is here and here.

Also, take a look at your settings page and make sure the new options (scroll to the bottom) are set they way you want them. As usual, the defaults SixApart/LiveJournal made for you are probably not the settings you'd choose.