ADMIN: Dreamwidth Import

[virtualinsomnia]

In light of recent changes around LJ land, we will soon be importing this community to DreamWidth as a backup. I didn't want to risk over a decade of Firefly-themed fic posts being lost if the worst happens

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[stars_inthe_sky]

Question-as a mod of another comm here trying to figure out the same move (het-reccers), I'd love to get more info on how you're exporting/importing everything. I had no problem doing so with my personal LJ, but I'm not clear about how the process works for a community. Thanks!

[virtualinsomnia]

Well, it's still waiting in the queue at this point, so we'll see how it turns out! But what I did was I created a community on DW and then, while logged into my personal acct (which I'd created that community with), I went to the import page. There you can switch from the personal journal to the community, so I chose the community. Then I just followed the instructions, which had me provide my login info and the community name over here. It will only work if you are either the maintainer or owner of the LJ comm (so you have to be higher than just a mod).

Anyway, as I said, the import is still in the queue. It imported all the tags already, but entries are still waiting. So we'll see how it goes. :-)

[stars_inthe_sky]

That's really helpful-thanks! Good luck :)

[virtualinsomnia]

I found this FAQ helpful, so thought I'd post it here for you.
https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqcat=import-xpost#faq230

[catko]

Thank you for doing this! See you over there....