lj dying?

[rmd]

lj is on the rocks, having just trashed a big chunk of the tech folks.

bryant has a post with useful resources for archiving your journal.

ETA: to be clear, i don't think lj is going to fall over dead tomorrow. or even this week. but if you've been tempted to archive your journal, this might be a good time to do it.

Comments

[coraline]

mmmm, python.
i'm not crazy about the way it saves all your entries as individual files named serially, rather than named with some useful date convention (WTF?) but non-coders can't be choosers i suppose.

[coraline]

...except it appears the script also doesn't grab comments. sad.

[drwex]

Oh, that's losing. ljarchive grabs comments, but it seems to be Windows-only and I'm not sure how to extract data from it in bulk.

[dsrtao]

ljdump grabs comments, in the C-### files parallel to the L-### files.

[drwex]

Yes, I've noticed this, just now. For some reason it grabs all entries, then all comments, rather than entry+comments the way ljarchive does.

Examining the XML slightly it's also a bit backward in that it puts the comment body first then the meta-information such as who the commenter was. But that's fixable.

(Stack implementation, anyone?)

[dot_fennel]

It's dumping comments for me; it just does them all after all the entries, and it's not clear if it attaches them to their parent entries.

If I fix that (or dates, because yeah, why not give them sensible names?), I will post a link to my own version.

[coraline]

yeah -- since i have 3600 entries i didn't wait around long enough to see it start to dump comments too :)

that would be awesome :)