Wait, what's going on at LiveJourn--oh.

[general_radix]

I only just now heard that LJ didn't start emptying out in earnest until last year and it had something to do with a TOS change (as it always does, it seems). So I looked it up and...gyeesh. On top of being extremely LGBT-phobic, because P*tin's Russia, it seems to have been designed to be as legally draconian as possible. And LJ is required to hand over your personal information if you step out of line.

Glad I never made an account there. Still, this makes me wonder--is there an "LJ-utils" program like for tumblr that'll allow people to back up journals that haven't been exported? Because if a lot of dusty old comms haven't been purged yet, I think it's only a matter of time.

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[juzo_kun]

Yeah, that what's made me distance from LJ too. I'm keeping it just because there are two or three people posting there and not here on DW.

On backups: I think there are tools, but at the moment I don't recall them.

It's my intention to make a backup of mine too and then delete everything. (Now it's just hidden.) I imported all the LJ in Dreamwidth but I'd like to make some declutter, so as soon as I learn/remember something I'll share if you're interested.

I don't know if it's possible to make a backup of someone else's journal or a community without administrative access, all the tools I know of of have the login as a mandatory step (otherwise it would be crawling: an activity is looked upon from many providers for various reasons).

I saved the things I was interested in as PDFs, but I think it's a method suited only when the interesting pages are far in between.

[juzo_kun]

LJ has its own backup service... useless if you don't have a LJ account of course (and also, same account limit as above).

[general_radix]

I see; also, I'd be interested in seeing what you learn/remember. :)

[cloudwrack]

And the cherry on top is that they force you to agree to the new TOS before you can delete your account. /sigh I have an RL friend who's still hanging on over there, but otherwise - yeah, all gone.

Re: backups - all the ones I know of require a password. I think a lot of people just exported their journals/communities to DW.

[general_radix]

Yeah, that's like--five different kinds of awful. DX I can only imagine what the Russian users think of this (since they got the whole thing and not the stripped-down English translation).

I see; guess it's down to hoping the Wayback Machine can pull through if need be...

[juzo_kun]

Yeah, I forgot that detail of having to agree to a TOS I can't even read in its entirety.