Saving my old LJ entries for posterity

If you want to save your old LJ entries, now might be the time.

There's a function on LJ called Export Journal, where your entries are turned into a CSV file you can download. But you have to do it one month at a time. So I backed up everything from April 2002 to August 2011 month by month. Tedious, but I might want those old entries again someday. That’s my hoarder mindset at work. If you don’t have the time, I hear from a friend there’s a site called BlogBooker that will do it all for you for $20. But I haven’t tried the service myself.

July 2011 is when I started crossposting everything to Dreamwidth. I probably should have backed up everything, in case DW goes kaput someday, but I’m not worrying about it right this minute.

I can’t believe I started my LJ in April 2002! That was two decades ago! I’m officially old.

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Rumour has it LiveJournal will probably shut down outside of Russia soon. I’m blogging at https://raincitygirl.dreamwidth.org. And can be reached directly at Raincitygirl at gmail dot com.

Of course, if anybody on my friends list is IN Russia, that won’t help them. But I’m assuming they probably have more urgent things to worry about than some random Canadian who blogs here very irregularly. Good luck, and hopefully we’ll see you again soon.

The above seems hopelessly inadequate, but I really don’t know what else to say. We are living in weird and unpredictable times. Obviously it’s occurred to me in the past that LiveJournal could go bankrupt at some point and the site go dark. But it had never occurred to me that the site might go dark in this particular manner.