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If you're trying to import a journal from LJ and are wondering what's happening, it may still be in the queue, which is currently very long. For values of "very long" that mean a few days, though

denise notes that her estimates of how long may be off by 100%. In the short term, you can leave it running (no need to keep that window open), as long as you don't change your LJ password until the import completes.

That's my version of her tl;dr; see her actual post for details. Also, if you're going to be hanging out at DW even intermittently, I recommend subscribing to

dw_maintenance, which is low-traffic and useful.

Crossposts: http://redbird.livejournal.com/1531424.html

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I hadn't realized the Dreamwidth importer would import comments on existing entries; I have just asked it to do that, and will try to remember to do so at least once a month.

My current plan is to keep cross-posting a lot of things from DW to Livejournal, but probably not all the friends-locked/filtered posts. This is an attempt to balance between wanting to keep up with my friends who are only on LJ, and having something vaguely resembling information security.

Crossposts: http://redbird.livejournal.com/1521687.html

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So, first: if you're on my LJ friendslist and are moving to DW, please let me know your username(s) so I can update my subscription and filters.

Second: The moves seem to be due to concern about the LJ servers being moved to Russia, and some Russian and/or pro-Ukrainian journals being deleted. (Googling also got me a Tweet from months ago saying the servers were being moved then, and warning about possible security risks.)

I found a bit about this in comments on a

dw_maintenance post about now-resolved server problems; some of that is in Russian, and some of the rest links to failfandom-anon, so take it for what it's worth. (The connection is that migrating journals from LJ to DW was putting a significant load on the server.)

Crossposts: http://redbird.livejournal.com/1520611.html

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When I bought a seed account last weekend, Dreamwidth rebated my unused paid time. I'm going to give it to someone, almost certainly someone who I've been reading here or know in some other context. If you'd like it and think you'll use the paid account benefits, wave. The only one I'm really using right now is the extra icons; I have the seed account because I want to support Dreamwidth. (I may do this first come first served, or I may pick a name out of a hat in a couple of days.)

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I have bought a permanent account on Dreamwidth. This doesn't mean I'm leaving LJ. It does mean I expect to stay on DW, don't think it's going to evaporate in the next year or two, and generally approve of what they're doing, including but not limited to not putting ads on free account pages (which only works if a significant number of users are paying for accounts). I like Dreamwidth, and right now they need the money (which is why they're putting a few hundred of these on sale). Also, a few times over the years I've thought that it would have made better sense to have bought a permanent LJ account instead of buying a year at a time; the tradeoffs are actually slightly better at DW (though both the yearly and seed/permanent account prices are higher than at LJ).

If I read things right, I have the choice of transferring the paid time I had left to someone else, or converting it into Dreamwidth points (which I suppose I could then divide up and use to divide the time among two or more people?). I think the first step is to check how much time is involved. On the off chance anyone reading this who doesn't have a Dreamwidth account wants one, I also have a few invite codes available; just ask.

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Would you be inconvenienced if I moved this journal mostly or entirely to Dreamwidth? Mostly would be cross-posting, but comments only on the DW side; entirely would be nothing posted to LJ except brief link posts, pointing to that week's posts on DW.

LiveJournal is once again inserting redirects and affiliate links on most outbound links. Apparently this round is better coded, and is no longer stripping existing links. But it seems that they are doing this to all accounts: and one of the reasons I've been paying for my account there is to avoid advertising. (I don't love that they have ads, but it's one thing to have that as the tradeoff, and another to have them dropping in links even on paid accounts.)

Part of the annoyance is that they haven't announced this: they could perfectly well have put it in a

news post, as "in order to help pay for the servers, we're doing X, here's the code if you want to opt out."

Instead, they waited for people to stumble across it, and when someone asked in the comments on the most recent news post, claimed that it was "transparent." As another user pointed out, if you're being transparent, you announce things, you don't wait for the users to stumble on them.

Mechanics: if I did move everything to DW, you could either comment using OpenID, pay a few dollars to start an account on Dreamwidth (it will revert to free when the paid time expires), or look on the

dw_codesharing community on Dreamwidth or the

dreamwidth community on LJ for an invite code.

If you want to move over and money is tight, talk to me: I have a couple of invite codes.

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I recently posted something using an access filter, and got email from someone who noticed that he could see it on LJ but not on DW. If you think I may have left you out of filters on one site, please let me know.

Most obviously, that's if you can see cross-posted things on one site but not the other. Also, if you joined Dreamwidth relatively recently, I may not have put you in the right Dreamwidth filters because I imported LJ entries, and filters, several months ago. Let me know if you think I should check. There are filters I don't use very often, so it might not be obvious if they aren't matched. Don't assume I'll be cross-posting everything, or forever.

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