Do we need a secondary venue?

[feliciakw]

With the wonkiness of LJ in the past week, a lot of us have been really frustrated with not being able to post, to communicate with one another, to contact peeps we only contact through LJ.

It seems a viable alternative might be prudent.

I know several of my LJ peeps really have no interest in Dreamwidth. I've also seen it indicated that DW users don't want DW to be inundated by LJ users.

It occurs to me that there is another alternative.

Long before I was talked into joining LJ, I was active on a number of Yahoo Groups. For those unfamiliar with YahooGroups, they act in a very similar manner to an LJ comm. I'm not sure about posting vids, and photos are posted in a photo folder available to the group.

Groups can be open or moderated, membership required or not. I spent many, MANY hours on my YahooGroups list. Too many. It's simple, convenient, and serves most of the purposes we use LJ for.

If anyone is interested, let me know. Perhaps a couple of us could start a group and co-mod or something.

Comments

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

How do you back up your LJ?

[ficwriter1966.livejournal.com]

I know there's a way to back up your journal by downloading it to your computer, but that's kind beyond my pay grade. Too complicated for me to even attempt.

If your journal is relatively small, you can mirror the whole thing over at DW. A few flisties have done that, and I tried it, but I've got way too much material. Basically got an error message saying "Whoa! Whoa! Too much!" and there's no way to tell it, "Just copy *these* posts." But yours is much less extensive than mine, so you could probably do it. It's like a 3-click process.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

It's actually not hard at all, even for those of us who are not great at computer stuff. I'll go find the download site for the program that I use, and link you--it's just an application you install on your computer, which will then copy for you (when you tell it to) your entire journal contents and save them on your hard drive.

Very very simple. (At least the one that I've used.)

[ficwriter1966.livejournal.com]

Seriously? Wow. 'Cause the person who tried to tell me how to do it a couple years back...I had no clue what they were saying. Good to know that there's a simpler method!

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome if you could send me that link. Also, we just booked our flight. Still need to look into the hotel room, though.