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migration to Dreamwidth commencing soon
Dec. 28th, 2016 04:54 pmI have seen credible reports that the LiveJournal servers have been moved to Moscow, where they are now subject to Russian rather than US law. This does not give me warm fuzzy feelings for LJ's already-shaky future.
I've had an account on Dreamwidth, a site very similar to LJ (they forked the LJ code way back when) for as long as they've existed. I think highly of them, but for "social" reasons I haven't used it for posting, only reading, until now. I'm going to be changing that. My intention is to make DW my primary journal and mirror posts to LJ for as long as I have LJ-based readers.
The first step of this transition is to migrate my existing content. Some of it's there already (I tried this in 2012), but I need to refresh it. Migration involves giving the DW migrator tool my LJ username and password so it can fetch all my entries rather than just the public ones. I would prefer a client I can run locally that I use to log in to both sites, but it doesn't exist. I am told that the DW tool uses challenge/response authentication, which sends a combined MD5 hash of the password (does not send in the clear). Nonetheless, in theory the DW migration code could use that credential to see locked posts to which I have access from some of you, so: if you are concerned about that possibility, you should unfriend me here at LJ at least temporarily. I am not concerned about this possibility for myself as other people migrate, for what that's worth, but I am not you. I intend to file the migration request tonight, but in the past, migrations prompted by LJ issues have had long wait times and I'm late to this party, so it might not start for hours or days after I submit it.
I'm sorry for the short notice. I really should have figured out the "import, then DW primary and mirrored to LJ" thing a while back, as some of you have, but I haven't. I didn't want to split my community, with some interactions coming via LJ and others via DW, and I've casually observed that comment volume goes down when people have to click through to another site. I don't yet know if I'll direct comments only to DW because of that; I do value the interactions here. We'll see. DW now has good OpenID support, meaning you can log in there to post comments using your LJ credentials, so maybe that'll work out. Or of course you could create an account there (and let me know who you are so I can add you to access lists for my infrequent non-public posts).
You can find me on DW at http://cellio.dreamwidth.org/.
I've had an account on Dreamwidth, a site very similar to LJ (they forked the LJ code way back when) for as long as they've existed. I think highly of them, but for "social" reasons I haven't used it for posting, only reading, until now. I'm going to be changing that. My intention is to make DW my primary journal and mirror posts to LJ for as long as I have LJ-based readers.
The first step of this transition is to migrate my existing content. Some of it's there already (I tried this in 2012), but I need to refresh it. Migration involves giving the DW migrator tool my LJ username and password so it can fetch all my entries rather than just the public ones. I would prefer a client I can run locally that I use to log in to both sites, but it doesn't exist. I am told that the DW tool uses challenge/response authentication, which sends a combined MD5 hash of the password (does not send in the clear). Nonetheless, in theory the DW migration code could use that credential to see locked posts to which I have access from some of you, so: if you are concerned about that possibility, you should unfriend me here at LJ at least temporarily. I am not concerned about this possibility for myself as other people migrate, for what that's worth, but I am not you. I intend to file the migration request tonight, but in the past, migrations prompted by LJ issues have had long wait times and I'm late to this party, so it might not start for hours or days after I submit it.
I'm sorry for the short notice. I really should have figured out the "import, then DW primary and mirrored to LJ" thing a while back, as some of you have, but I haven't. I didn't want to split my community, with some interactions coming via LJ and others via DW, and I've casually observed that comment volume goes down when people have to click through to another site. I don't yet know if I'll direct comments only to DW because of that; I do value the interactions here. We'll see. DW now has good OpenID support, meaning you can log in there to post comments using your LJ credentials, so maybe that'll work out. Or of course you could create an account there (and let me know who you are so I can add you to access lists for my infrequent non-public posts).
You can find me on DW at http://cellio.dreamwidth.org/.