No, I don't trust Livejournal AT ALL anymore

[beandelphiki]

For those very few who haven't heard it by now (hard to miss, since it's on the main page):

We've been apologized to. More specifically, Mr. Asshat CEO of SixApart - a.k.a. Mr. Barak Berkowitz - has apologized, as rightly he should.

Well, we really screwed that one up...

He's promising they'll fix it - really! - and boy is he ever embarrassed, etc.

Well, it's nice that they jumped so fast to respond to the outcry. It's nice that lj has such a loyal and vocal userbase who will put on this kind of pressure.

I don't think this is entirely over, though. And even if it is, I'm taking some extra steps I admittedly haven't bothered with before.

1. I removed all my interests. I've heard of people having interests of theirs - INCLUDING "SLASH" - removed mysteriously from their userinfos. They were NOT the ones to remove it.

So even if lj will no longer be suspending journals for certain interests, they may be REMOVING YOUR INTERESTS FOR YOU, without notifying you of the change.

So...that's it. I'm not taking any more risks with my interests list. It's gone, at least for now. Possibly forever.

2. I'll be backing up my journal. I know, I know, everybody should do this. But I'm getting serious about this, now. I have entries in here dating back to early 2002 - I do not want to lose this.

I've never backed up my journal before, so anyone who has advice? It would be greatly appreciated. What's the best way, can you back it up on CD-Rs, etc.

3. I'm copying all my entries to my account at GreatestJournal. Right now I'm doing that manually - anybody know if there's a better way than simply C&Ping everything, and backdating all the entries?

I'm not "moving" to GJ just yet...for multiple reasons. (Fuck, if nothing else, I just spent like $50 bucks on this account.) But I am PREPARED to move, if it comes to that.

My account is here:

beandelphiki @ GreatestJournal.

If you have a GJ account, feel free to drop me a line there and add me. And I RECOMMEND everyone snag an account there - even if you don't plan to use it right now - in the event that you need to move.

...That's all for now, because I have to go to work. Possibly more later.

Comments

[karalianne.livejournal.com]

I'm starting a GreatestJournal account right now. Working on it still; I have some ideas as to what to use it for. Same username there as here.

You can download all your posts from LiveJournal as XML files to save backups. Maybe if you do that you can also upload them to GreatestJournal?

[katster.livejournal.com]

Depends. If you're using a windows PC, I'd highly recommend LJArchive. I don't know what the Mac equivalent is.

And I'm on greatestjournal under the same username.

-kat