yes, my LJ has been archived.

[snugglekitty]

The next question is, if this all goes away, what blog system would be a good one to switch to? I like blogging and I want to keep doing it (especially about books and working out). I like the social networking aspect as well but thus far have not been interested in places like MySpace. It seems... kind of crowded and noisy in there, if you know what I mean.

Does anyone who reads this blog have experience with blogspot, wordpad, or other non-LJ blogging tools?

ETA: LJ press release says that they're just moving to Russia, after all. Yet I see many friends posting to say they're moving to Vox. Hmmmmm...

Comments

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what i hate about myspace and facebook is it seems hard to have the substantive, threaded conversations like we have here. They are more geared toward being briefly-posty. And Tribe threatens to collapse as well.

[jonaskaite.livejournal.com]

That's exactly the problem. There are social networks and blogging platforms, but not a whole lot in the way of social blogging networks. I've toyed around with Blogger and run a Wordpress platform for a couple of years (http://www.edgeofcenter.com), but they don't serve the same function as LJ.

Vox looks promising, but I wonder about its feature pack.

[iff]

I've been crossposting to InsaneJournal since Strikethrough. I know several of my friends have problems with the terminology that's used on the site (I must say that I find it quite amusing personally), but it's based on the LJ code and, from what Squeaky (the IJ owner/admin) posted earlier today, they are stable and have been for quite a long time now and have no plans on going anywhere. The user base isn't as robust yet, but with every instance of LJ doing something to piss the user base off, more people have fled over there.

If you do decide to go to IJ (or any other blogging sites that use the LJ code), there are instructions here for archiving your LJ and restoring it to the other site. The only thing I've found that's a problem with restoring it is if you use filters to post, they may not import with the correct filters. I haven't used tags in my journals but some of the comments say that those don't transfer either. If you just want to archive your LJ so you can start from scratch elsewhere, you can use either LJ-Archive or LJ-Sec (both tools mentioned in the post above) to back it up to your hard drive.

[iff]

(heh heh...and if i'd read the subject, i'd have known that you already knew how to do the archiving part of it...d'oh!)

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

Where would I find you on InsaneJournal?

[iff]

I'm iff over there.

[iff]

(And I will admit that I'm about as active over there as I am here: read always, post almost nothing, comment sometimes.)

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

That's cool - I just want to keep the lines of communication open, is all. Can you be RSSd? Not that I know how to on Vox yet, heh.

[iff]

FAQ says you can get it at http://www.insanejournal.com/users/iff/data/rss/ but...

"Protected entries are visible if the user requesting the RSS feed is able to authenticate with InsaneJournal and has permission to see the entries. For example, if you view your RSS feed in your browser while logged in, you will see all your most recent entries in it. However, someone who is not logged in, or someone you do not list as a friend, would not be able to see any protected entries in the feed. For most RSS aggregators and newsreaders, this will mean that only public entries are included. This is because they generally do not provide any means of cookie authentication."

and I friendslock most of my entries.

[iff]

Also, thanks to some not-so-subtle nudging from friends, I'm on Facebook using my real name and my gmail address. I'm better about doing status updates there because you can only do the one-line things, but the depth of those updates is about what you'd expect from a one-liner.