LJ, rumors, and backups
Jan. 6th, 2009 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioLJ laid off a bunch of people today. It was initially reported as almost everyone in the US office and all the technical staff, but that report turned out to be erroneous and from a questionable source. This post has a pretty good collection of links and other info.
Is LJ going to go poof soon? I don't think so. But it's never a good idea to rely overly much on any one internet service, so it's a good idea to back up your journal regularly if losing its content would upset you. I use LJArchive on Windows, but am paying attention to ljmigrate on the Mac. Neither has all the features I want, but the former is pretty good and the latter is new and still under development, it appears.
Some of the backup tools out there require that you give a third party your password. Please be mindful of the security problem you create by doing so and, at least, change your password afterwards, ok? You're not just exposing your own journal, but also the locked entries of everyone who's given you access.
If LJ were to go poof, I'd be looking to set up on one of the similar sites that uses the same underlying code. The very most important feature of LJ to me is threaded comments, and for all that this seems basic to me, most of the blogging sites out there don't do it. I have an account at InsaneJournal that I set up during the last big kerfluffle (same user name); the "asylum" theme might keep me from moving in there (would I want colleagues or family members to see that?), but it's a fallback at least. If you have an account at IJ, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know (or add me and then I'll see you).
So, IMO, it's not time for panic but it's always time to be prudent.
Is LJ going to go poof soon? I don't think so. But it's never a good idea to rely overly much on any one internet service, so it's a good idea to back up your journal regularly if losing its content would upset you. I use LJArchive on Windows, but am paying attention to ljmigrate on the Mac. Neither has all the features I want, but the former is pretty good and the latter is new and still under development, it appears.
Some of the backup tools out there require that you give a third party your password. Please be mindful of the security problem you create by doing so and, at least, change your password afterwards, ok? You're not just exposing your own journal, but also the locked entries of everyone who's given you access.
If LJ were to go poof, I'd be looking to set up on one of the similar sites that uses the same underlying code. The very most important feature of LJ to me is threaded comments, and for all that this seems basic to me, most of the blogging sites out there don't do it. I have an account at InsaneJournal that I set up during the last big kerfluffle (same user name); the "asylum" theme might keep me from moving in there (would I want colleagues or family members to see that?), but it's a fallback at least. If you have an account at IJ, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know (or add me and then I'll see you).
So, IMO, it's not time for panic but it's always time to be prudent.
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Date: 2009-01-07 08:02 pm (UTC)