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It appears that LiveJournal's future is in doubt, so I'm looking into ways to migrate my blog, and I figure that others might want to know how to do so as well.
I found ljArchive, which will create a local backup of a journal and its comments. I don't know if any info is lost. Ideally I'd like to find a backup tool and a blogging service combination that will let me perform a complete migration, though I don't expect comments will go along for the ride. While I don't personally make heavy use of friendslocked posts (I think I've posted exactly one) I like having the option.
As I learn about more tools and find potential replacement services I'll update this post.
What tools and blogging services do y'all know about, and are you planning on moving?
[Edit: So far I've looked at Blogger, Wordpress, Xanga, and Vox. None has the fine-grained privacy control of LJ. Xanga and Vox seem to be more socially oriented sites, and Vox has some shared Six Apart heritage with LJ. Vox lets you tag groups and users as part of your Neighborhood, and people within your neighborhood can be further tagged as Friends or Family. These can be used to create something like friendslocked posts, though there doesn't seem to be a way to create additional lists. Xanga only allows for one such list. I haven't found any migration tools for either service other than a collection of Perl and Python scripts that I wouldn't recommend for general consumption. Vox can import from a journal's Atom feed, but only the most recent 25 entries and without comments.]
[Edit: InsaneJournal appears to be basically an LJ clone. They claim financial stability. I don't know whether I believe them, but it's at least unlikely that they and LJ will die a horrible death at exactly the same time. There is a Windows program called LJ-SEC that can back up and re-export a journal to IJ, minus the comments. I've just tried it with success. So far this seems to be the best, though still an imperfect, way to migrate. If you want to keep a record of all your comments, ljArchive seems to be the way to go. I don't think any tool in the world will migrate comments to another site, since that would mean that you could spoof somebody else's identity.]
I found ljArchive, which will create a local backup of a journal and its comments. I don't know if any info is lost. Ideally I'd like to find a backup tool and a blogging service combination that will let me perform a complete migration, though I don't expect comments will go along for the ride. While I don't personally make heavy use of friendslocked posts (I think I've posted exactly one) I like having the option.
As I learn about more tools and find potential replacement services I'll update this post.
What tools and blogging services do y'all know about, and are you planning on moving?
[Edit: So far I've looked at Blogger, Wordpress, Xanga, and Vox. None has the fine-grained privacy control of LJ. Xanga and Vox seem to be more socially oriented sites, and Vox has some shared Six Apart heritage with LJ. Vox lets you tag groups and users as part of your Neighborhood, and people within your neighborhood can be further tagged as Friends or Family. These can be used to create something like friendslocked posts, though there doesn't seem to be a way to create additional lists. Xanga only allows for one such list. I haven't found any migration tools for either service other than a collection of Perl and Python scripts that I wouldn't recommend for general consumption. Vox can import from a journal's Atom feed, but only the most recent 25 entries and without comments.]
[Edit: InsaneJournal appears to be basically an LJ clone. They claim financial stability. I don't know whether I believe them, but it's at least unlikely that they and LJ will die a horrible death at exactly the same time. There is a Windows program called LJ-SEC that can back up and re-export a journal to IJ, minus the comments. I've just tried it with success. So far this seems to be the best, though still an imperfect, way to migrate. If you want to keep a record of all your comments, ljArchive seems to be the way to go. I don't think any tool in the world will migrate comments to another site, since that would mean that you could spoof somebody else's identity.]