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Gavin Greig ([personal profile] ggreig) wrote2017-04-10 10:22 pm
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Reluctant Mover

This evening I’ve become a reluctant mover to Dreamwidth. I’ve been with LiveJournal since 2004, have had a permanent account for most of that time, and have not previously set up an account with Dreamwidth; but the effect of the recent LiveJournal licence changes on LGBT users is not something I can support. I’m still in the process of configuring stuff, and my LJ entries haven’t even been imported into DW yet, so I’m not sure precisely how things are going to work out and whether my LiveJournal will stay and be cross-posted to. The logic of “taking a stand” suggests that it should go, but I’ll have to wait and see what the practicalities are before making a final decision. This post itself is a bit of a test to see how things work.

I don’t seem to be alone in taking this decision now.

My new account is at https://ggreig.dreamwidth.org/. In the short term I intend that content will be cross-posted to LiveJournal, but that may end at some point.

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[personal profile] vivdunstan 2017-04-10 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I've already deleted my LiveJournal, after all the old entries were imported to DW (took about 30 hours, but that was a couple of days ago). I was going to leave it longer, but I really can't abide the new terms, not least being expected to be legally bound by an agreement I can't read, and also seems to be highly problematic to me. So bye bye.

I wasn't a big user of LJ, mainly using it for family-only posts to keep track of my MS-like illness. And I wasn't a paid member, so didn't have much to lose. But once I found I could transfer all my entries over that was me out of there.

On the downside I don't know an easy way to archive my posts in bulk out from Dreamwidth, except 1 month at a time. I have a decade's worth of posts ...
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[personal profile] ggreig 2017-04-10 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
ljArchive (a freeware Windows program) might do the job of archiving Dreamwidth. I'm not in a position to confirm that yet, but worth checking out if you're a Windows person.
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[personal profile] vivdunstan 2017-04-10 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I've used a UNIX version of ljarchive before, on my Mac, but haven't checked yet if it will work on Dreamwidth. Thanks for the reminder :)
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[personal profile] vivdunstan 2017-04-10 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I used ljdump in the past, which is Python based. There's also ljmigrate. They should probably work with DW. Will try!
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[personal profile] ggreig 2017-04-11 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
I'd forgotten the other options and platform choices and didn't have the time to check last night, so just gave the one I was confident of. Glad it served as a reminder - hopefully at least one of those will work out!
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