Live Journal in trouble?

[alfreda89]

I hear that they've cut their staff by 50%. And I just renewed, sigh....

I hear the skinny is, save to LJArchive. But haven't found a post on it yet. So, if you know how to archive everything -- let me know!

This means eventually I will be posting more on www.blog.bookviewcafe.com, until I decide how to handle all this. To fans, I will find a place for a blog (now is not the best time for it, of course) and will post that site in here, if I still can, and at my brochure site, www.ke-kimbriel.com.

I want to be able to post cover pics, or artwork, as I am returning to my roots -- bought a mess of acrylics on sale. We'll see if I have what it takes to sell artwork. Once, I did -- but I wanted to write. Now, I want to do both, and something has to pay the bills.

'Til soon --

Comments

[lasofia.livejournal.com]

Check here for discussion on tools to back up your lj:
http://crasch.livejournal.com/745822.html

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

elarasophia has very kindly sent me the link over on mine:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/

Haven't tried it yet.

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't worry about LJ going anywhere. They just shifted offices really and (while it sucks for those laid off) I doubt we'll notice any interruption of service.

[oliana0.livejournal.com]

At the same time, it's not a bad idea to back-up your LJ periodically if you don't want to lose it. There's no guarantee that the service will exist tomorrow with or without layoffs.

[lillian13.livejournal.com]

And another link for backup instructions:
http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/413098.html

[moon-happy.livejournal.com]

Agree. Unlikely that we'll notice any disruption of service. But just fyi, I've been "backing up" 20 posts at a time to word using cut and paste. Originally I worked in word and cut and paste to lj, but then began to trust lj. So my dups are both ways for me. I haven't tried the archive function (but probably will discover they want $$ to use it.)

[madspark.livejournal.com]

DreamHost space is like $100 a year and nearly infinite; I sublet out a chunk of mine to my son, for example, and will never notice the space/user.

If you sign up with my coupon code (SIMDREAM) that's pretty much first year free (IIRC)... of course, then you have to run a Wiki or something, but that's pretty easy too, especially since MediaWiki and some other useful stuff is on one-button install there.