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nymphti

Goodbye, LJ World

Sep 13, 2011 08:00

This past weekend there was an awful lot of hullabaloo about The Tenth Anniversary. So maybe my own little anniversary doesn't seem like such a big deal?

Sept 13th, 2001 was my very first LJ entry. I started right on the heels of The Sept 11th.

I could talk at length about what reading back through those old entries has meant, but honestly ( Read more... )

final entry

Comments 3

dosboof September 13 2011, 12:55:32 UTC

This is basically my reasoning on LJ and I'm glad that you agree with me. In fact, my plan is to make my final post on my 10th anniversary as well, coming up on October 7th (oddly, I could have had one sooner, but I balked at getting an invite code from Kitty at the time). I'll get into it much more in-depth on my final entry in a few weeks (I still have a lot of work to do before then) but, like you, I miss the feeling of community of LJ at its hey and I know that it's gone forever now. There's stuff left but I'm not happy with it and I feel like I only leave maybe 2 or 3 comments to others per week, whereas I used to leave maybe 10 or 12 per day ( ... )

nymphti September 13 2011, 14:55:52 UTC

It's a satisfying demarcation, isn't it? I think you make a great point that 10 years is forever in Internet Years. I can't think offhand of any account I've used for that long aside from maybe my spam email account on hotmail. I don't see anything wrong with abandoning my account here since it doesn't serve my needs any more. (Tripod circa 1998 comes to mind ( ... )

dosboof September 13 2011, 16:12:34 UTC

I'm actually going through all 1360 entries by hand, selecting each one for security measures based on how I want to save it this time. The ones that get saved I'm throwing into Google Docs, most of the time without the comments. This is supefyingly time-consuming and I only recommend doing it if you also want to leave some entries up as visible, others as private, and delete others, like I do.

To get all of the posts en masse you can use this:

http://www.livejournal.com/export.bml

Now, back around early 2009 or so I used some export program to back up everything, including the comments (which that won't do). It was some third-party software I ran on my work computer, which, of course, is back in Massachusetts. In the intervening 2 1/2 years I've forgotten the name of the software I used, but I'm sure if you want to save everything it can't be too hard to dig up a relatively user-friendly and thorough program. Sorry I can't be of more help than that.