A happy new year! ...and what's up with LJ/Russia

[brightknightie]

I wish you a very happy and healthy new year! And I wish all those in positions of leadership, inspiration, and power the wisdom, compassion and determination to help everyone to a better year and a better world. ♥

You've probably heard about LiveJournal moving to Russian servers (Morgandawn's post). If you're LJ-only, you may wish to look over the guide to DW for LJ users, especially how to import/back-up your LJ to DW.

Brightknightie

I'll probably delete the content of my own LJ account. I'm wavering over then deleting the account itself. (I'm not in a tremendous rush; should I be? If you have substantiated information that I should consider, please do share.)

I've primarily used DW for... what, eight years? So, while things like unlinking from Abby's and Susan's accounts will be an emotional wrench, the practicalities should be smooth. All should be easier and tidier going forward, with no more cross-posting...

Unless I lose track of, for example, LJ-only wiliqueen. Can't let that happen! Eeeek.

FKFicFest

Then there's fkficfest.

There's now a way to import LJ communities to DW (there wasn't in 2011 when we set up fkficfest). So we can import the 2010 game from LJ to DW, plus those individual stories posted directly to LJ in 2011 and 2012, along with their comments. Importantly, the original posters/commenters keep complete control of their posts/comments on DW via OpenID. They can edit, delete, whatever they like, just as if the posts/comments had stayed on LJ.

(I don't know for certain how this will work. Best-case scenario: I can pick dates for importing. Worst-case scenario: it'll import all 7+ years of LJ posts/comments, and then I'll sort and delete duplicates.)

We could then delete the fkficfest account altogether, or delete the content and leave the account up with a sticky post redirecting to DW (as long as there's still an individual LJ account owner).

I think that deleting the whole account may well be the best choice. (Certainly, I won't pay to keep it ad-free anymore.) But of course while the final responsibility is mine, the content is many people's.

I really don't want to cut anyone off!

But I don't think I want to play on LJ anymore, either.

So: I'm thinking! :-) What are you thinking?

Comments

[lightbird]

I've been pretty much dreamwidth-only for the last several years. The only reason I've kept my LJ (and have continued to cross-post) is because there are certain communities there that I'm still involved with and I have some LJ-only friends still. So I've been following the fest here only (though I haven't been involved to the extent of other fen).

It's great that you can now import communities now, although looking at dreamwidth's help page regarding importing it doesn't look like you can choose a date range unfortunately. But I like the idea of leaving the account up with a sticky post redirecting people to DW -- that way nobody gets inadvertently cut off (and you can always just lock the rest of the community posts if you don't want the content to show up -- I'm pretty sure you can do that globally on LJ).

Happy New Year to you too! Hope 2017 is a good year. :)

[brightknightie]

It's not that I don't want the posts to show; it's that I thought no one would want the posts (and related data) stored on servers physically inside Russia.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding. Does that not concern most people?

Keeping the community live would require keeping my account live to be the owner, or recruiting a different owner...

[lightbird]

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood.

I'm less worried about fannish stuff than say if I kept a more politics-oriented journal, but the more I think about it the more I can see the concern about keeping even innocuous stuff up on a server in Russia.