Changing Things

[wyld_dandelyon]

It's time to officially close my Live Journal. Everything is backed up to DreamWidth (though I don't think that backup made actual copies of the photos hosted on LJ).

LJ hasn't been what it used to be since a Russian company bought it, and their most recent terms of service are horrible (I'm liable to lose the account if they notice me talking about politics or queer issues, for instance, even if I were to keep a paid account).

It's not the same place any more by any metric I know of, even if it does still have the same address.

And I do definitely like it here.

But still, even thinking about it makes me feel sad.

Feelings are not always logical.

Comments

[wyld_dandelyon]

Oooh, I should at least download them! Now to figure out how...

[acelightning]

I don't know of a way to download them as a batch. But go to https://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml (it will give you your LJ userpics page), then, one by one, right-click on each picture and select "Save Image As", and save it to where you want to keep it on your machine. Then go to https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/icons (again, it will automagically go to your account), and upload them to DW as you wish.

Incidentally, I'm still on LJ, but I originate all my posts on DW and auto-crosspost them. I, too, still have friends who are only on LJ.

[mdlbear]

Likewise. I kept the LJ (permanent account, so why not?), crosspost from DW with comments disabled, and marked the LJ adults-only. (There's nothing on my journal that isn't kid-safe, but the Russian laws on that subject are weird and I don't want to deal with them.

[wyld_dandelyon]

I did that--I think. For some reason, it kept skipping photos, so I went backward through them all after going forward. Ugh!

[acelightning]

It's not just LJ, by the way - there are just some things the computer, or the software, won't let you do except one at a time, by hand. Annoying, but it gets the job done.