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[stakebait]

I haven't been around LJ much lately, but even I do not live sufficiently under a rock to have missed strikethrough boldout Whatever '07, wherein Livejournal decided to pre-apply the Miller obscenity test. Except where it decided to do something else.

I finally got the LJ PDF tool to work tonight, but my backups are still a work in progress, so I am going to defer my full comments a little while longer. Should I be deleted, you can find me at the as-yet-unpopulated journals stakebait at journalfen.net and insanejournal.com.

Comments

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Are you aware of the LJ-Sec program? You can use it to copy your journal posts from LJ to GreatestJournal or InsaneJournal or, really, any site using the LJ code. It doesn't copy over comments, unfortunately, so using LJ-Archive to download everything (comments, icons, etc) for archival purposes (no re-uploading elsewhere) is probably still a good idea.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm aware if it in theory, but apparently filtered posts don't necessarily stay filtered? I don't use filters much, but I have a few things I'd need to reset private, and I'm not sure how practical it is to find that needle in the haystack. I was thinking of seeing if I could set all friends locked entries to default to private, and then I could manually unlock them when/if I check each one. There's no way to only show filtered posts, is there?

Anyway, yeah, LJ-SEC is in the plan, along with LJ-Archive and some kind of off-site backup -- emailing the PDF to myself, if I can't think of anything cleverer.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

I've been playing around with LJ-Sec. Once you've synched a journal (downloaded all the messages in the journal), there are options to select or deselect all the posts, or to select by public vs private vs friends only posts. I've been backing up each type of post (public/private/friends only) separately.

You can also set the program to change the security level of various types of posts (or set it keep them the same). I don't know how well this works--but if you set it to keep them the same (which is why I upload each type separately) it seems to work pretty well.*

*Uploading to InsaneJournal goes more smoothly than uploading to GreatestJournal for some reason. GJ tends to give you error messages claiming that some of your posts have the wrong date and if you really want to post that date you should have the "backdate" option turned on--even when you ARE using the backdate option.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Since LJ Book was last night, I'm going to try LJ Archive tonight and then LJ-Sec after that. And then, I suppose, I'll have to actually find out what Semagic is so I can learn simultaneous posting.
I guess it is good that I'm finally practicing my techie skills...

[kdorian.livejournal.com]

I hate to sound INCREDIBLY ignorant, but... What is the bolding people are talking about?

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

You don't sound ignorant at all!

I'm told that LJ has recently discontinued the use of strikethrough to indicate these involuntarily deleted journals and replaced it with a non-linked bold. It is not clear to me whether that is to distinguish them from voluntarily deleted journals, or to distinguish suspended from permanently deleted, or whether LJ has replaced strikethrough with bold as a signifier of all defunct usernames. (This probably has been explained somewhere in the official posts, but it wasn't the part that concerned me so I didn't check.)

[kdorian.livejournal.com]

That strikes me as... right on par with some of their other decisions.