Well, that was easy!

[caliente_uk]

I've just copied every single one of my LJ entries over to my IJ account, using LJ-Sec. It was so easy! I was expecting it to take much longer than it did, and thought that something was bound to go wrong. But no, it all worked perfectly! The only down side is that it doesn't copy comments over, but at least I now have a complete back-up journal to LJ. I've privatised some of my older entries, and will probably go back and privatise a few more when I have time, but on the whole I'm happy with it. :)

Looking back over my old entries has made me feel so nostalgic. I was so innocent to the ways of fandom and internet life back then...and probably even more open about my life than I am now, believe it or not. I know I'm not as naive as I once was, that's for sure. I'm a very different person to the one I was four? years ago, when I ventured online for the first time, following the end of BtVS. A decision I've never looked back on, even if it has been a bit of a rocky ride at times!

One thing I noticed is that I've just passed my 3 year LJ anniversary. My first post was July 2004. Wow! Time really does fly. I migrated here (LJ) along with some of my long term Buffyverse friends - southernbangel, makd, raelee, cdn_tvaddict, showmewrtr, angelspike69 and cara_leigh9 to name but a few - mainly to keep up with my favourite fanfic authors, but it soon became so much more than that. It makes me sad to see how unsettled it is on LJ at the moment, with so many people moving on to other journal/blogging sites. My only hope is that we don't all spread our wings too wide. I would hate to see this wonderful community we've built here (and it is a wonderful community, in spite of LJ/6A) fall to pieces, never to be repaired. I'd like to think that we all mean more to one another than that. But only time will tell, I suppose. *sigh*

*hugs flist*

Comments

[sandy-s.livejournal.com]

I did the same. It was super easy! :o)

I sure hope fandom doesn't leave LJ. Despite all the recent hubbub, we really have it good here...

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe how easy it was! :)

I'm hoping everything will settle down again after a while. The thought of having to rebuild everything all over again is a scary one, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it won't come to that.

[sandy-s.livejournal.com]

Me either! :o) :o)

I don't know about you but I'm all for laying low until the dust settles and not getting into the middle of it all. And so many people are saying they're staying which makes me happy. :o)

[hollydb]

How did you transfer your files over? I found one tutorial, did everything it told me to do, and it failed. =\

[sandy-s.livejournal.com]

Sorry to bother...here's the post I followed: link (http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/284083.html). :o) Is that what you did?

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

That's the same post I followed, too. :)

[sandy-s.livejournal.com]

Heh, and we both commented in response at the same time! :o) We're good. *nods firmly* ;o)

[hollydb]

I feel really silly. I went and googled LJ-sec after leaving this comment and it took me right to it. Everything's been transferred. Thank you, sweetie. <3

(Yes, I posted this twice...I wanted to thank you both equally)

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

I followed the instructions on this entry here (http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/284083.html). It's the LJ-Sec instructions you need to follow (method 2). It worked like a dream for me. I hope that helps, Holly! :)

[hollydb]

I feel really silly. I went and googled LJ-sec after leaving this comment and it took me right to it. Everything's been transferred. Thank you, sweetie. <3

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that everyone keeps saying people are leaving but not one of my list has actually gone - they're just backing things up on other journals.

I wonder how many people have actually left???

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that the dust will settle and most people will stay - but there are quite a few people on my flist threatening to leave (but who haven't actually left yet), while others are making plans to use IJ or GJ etc. as their primary journals. There have also been at least two people on my flist who have left LJ completely. Like I said in my post, it's the unsettled feeling around LJ at the moment that I hate. I'm not planning on leaving LJ myself for a long, long time to come.

If some people do decide to leave, I think it's going to be impossible to keep up with them on the many different journals that people have. One flist is hard enough! It's so much easier when everyone is under the same roof, so to speak. I'm wondering how long it will take for people to come back to LJ, if the majority of their flist decides to stay. :)

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

For most people on my list it is not a question of leaving altogether ~ crossposting to multiple journals with Semagic is very easy, and IJ, GJ, and JF all allow responses to comments in email, and Firefox tabs make it simple to have different sites/journals up at once ... so it is much less of a traumatic change than it would have been before we had all these tools at our disposal.

It's more that people used to trust LJ and rely on it and now they don't, so there's all the backing up and x-posting. And who knows what will change when 6A sells LJ?

Plus with all the responses coming from LJ Abuse that, yes, people can be deleted and suspended forever without warning for nothing more than linking to something offsite that LJ decides is objectionable ... this is making even more folks want to cover their bases.

[shapinglight]

I must do that transfer thing, though I've no intention of actually going anywhere.

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe how easy it was to do. :)

It's a nice feeling to have everything backed up on another journal, but I'm not planning on going anywhere either. :)

[kathyh]

I would hate to see this wonderful community we've built here (and it is a wonderful community, in spite of LJ/6A) fall to pieces, never to be repaired.

Well said. I came for the fic, but I'm staying for the people and the way it really does feel like a community.

I've backed my journal up with ljArchive but I might look in to copying it across to IJ as well in case my computer decides to throw a wobbly. There are nearly four years of my life on here and I would have to lose it.

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

A lot of people seem to be staying, so hopefully the dust will settle without things changing too much. :)

I think it's a good idea to have at least one back-up of your journal. Looking back over my old posts made me realise just how much of my life I've poured into it. It would break my heart to lose all that!

[kathyh]

Me too. And when I wrote "have" what I actually meant to write was "hate"!

Some friends are going to Prague this weekend and asked me what we did when we were there. I just looked up my LJ entries and it all came flooding back with details that I'd quite forgotten. I haven't got the discipline to write a diary but LJ has been wonderful as a place where I actually want to write things up. I have no intention of leaving that.

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to hear it went smoothly, because I've been terribly nervous about it! I downloaded LJ-SEC but have been afraid to try yet.

So much happens in comments that I would hate to lose them, but LJ Book saves comments to a PDF book you can keep on your hard drive or print out, so I want to try that as well. And LJ Archive. Since these save comments, even if one can't export them to another journaling site, at least they'd still be around for you in another format.

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe just how easy it was! :)

I'm going to give either LJ Book or LJ Archive a go when I have more time. It would be a shame to lose all of the wonderful comments people have made over the years if LJ ever went down completely!