Seeing a post about LJ possibly shutting down, and I was thinking about all the fics and recs and meta that haven’t been posted elsewhere. A lot of people who got into fandoms later don’t know how much good stuff was never put on Ao3. Would just be sad to lose all that.
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Yup.
I assume the post you saw was linking to Denise's thread. Your options are to import to DW (if it's your own LJ account or a community you own) or to buy ViddersAdmin's program, which sounds like it can grab coms, including all of a kinkmeme's comment threads. It doesn't sound like it can grab locked posts, but I'm not sure.
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I hope this lights a fire under people's asses to save things. Personally, I got very tired after nobody gave two shits about yahoo groups.
People for whom LJ was peak fandom can work on saving LJ content.
The ArchiveTeam (team behind most of the large website archives on archive.org) is working on setting up a LiveJournal archive process.
They need URLs
Send lists of URLs to their upload page, they have instructions for doing so on the wiki page I linked.
I got VidderAdmin's tool (it's actually an Excel sheet with some backend functionalities added) and so have some input! It can definitely get locked posts and locked comm posts. I used it to successfully back up a number of locked comms the other night.
Things to know if you decide to go that route:
It costs $20. Considering the amount of work Vid and his team have put into it and doing constant support over the last week I feel that that's fair.
You will need Excel. LibreOffice will not work for this purpose. You can currently get Office 2021 here for less than $35 and that works just fine for this purpose. (I have needed an installation of Excel for work purposes so this was pretty much free for me. I can get reimbursed.)
You will need Chrome for this. You don't need to log in to a Google account for anything, but the tool basically uses Chrome to automate the month by month archiving process on LJ.
I strongly recommend watching the entire video in the powerpoint that comes with the purchase of the tool before doing anything else. He guides you step by step through the entire setup and installation process. It's not difficult, but there are some things you need to do that are not intuitive or obvious.
You'll need to email Vid so he can give you a license key for the software.
Vid and his team are also willing to back up your journal for you if you only need a couple of journals dealt with and don't want to deal with an installation.
For my purposes (about ten locked RP comms some of which had hundreds of entries and thousands of comments) it made sense to spend the money and do it myself and Vid was very responsive and courteous throughout the parts where communication was necessary.
After the tool is entirely setup the actual backing up process is extremely simple and requires very little input on your end. The largest comm I backed up took a couple of hours, but it worked!
Ooh! Thank you for the update!
ViddersAdmin does so much work of this type. I think I still have a recurring donation set up for one of his vidding projects.

















