LiveJournal making changes--back up your stuff

[beatrice_otter]

LiveJournal has been owned by Russians for some years now, and they just announced some changes on the Russian side of the service that are not announced on the English-language side: https://ru-news.livejournal.com/80899.html

Basically, they're going to be cutting off contact between Russian language users in Russia and Russian language users who are outside of Russia, and between English-language users and Russian-language users. Plus some other miscellaneous stuff. denise has a thread on Bluesky where she analyzes why she thinks they're doing this. There's a good chance they're planning on either shutting down or selling the English-language version of the site.

If there is anything on LJ that you like that is not backed up somewhere else, now might be a good time to fix that. If it's your content, there are several ways to download it (linked in the thread above), including exporting it to Dreamwidth. If it's not your content, you can still ask the Internet Archive to save a copy of the page.

Comments

[openidwouldwork]

Thanks for the heads up, passing it on

[beatrice_otter]

YOu're welcome!