Journal migration

[johnridley]

I found a tool that allows migration between livejournal-like sites:
http://antennapedia.livejournal.com/266462.html

You can run this to mirror your journal over to insanejournal or maybe some others. It incorporates LJDUMP which makes an XML copy of all entries and comments on your local hard drive, so that's an additional backup.

I also wrote my own using Perl, and used that. I had mine mostly done when I found the above, and after running the above, I didn't think the above was properly mirroring a couple of properties. Also the above forces "date out of order" at all times on the destination, so the written entries don't show up on flists and a few other things.

Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to copy comments, at least in their normal format. I think I may try to write something that rolls up all comments as an HTML chunk and then post them as a single comment authored by myself.

I figure it can't hurt to keep a copy around elsewhere.

Comments

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

You'll want a newer tool. When I last researched writing a better LJ client (reading client, not something to post) two years ago, the API didn't support access to comments. These days it does.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

You can ACCESS comments, but you can't push them to the journal as another user. If the new API does allow me to do that, it's seriously broken. That would allow me to post comments in my journal (or maybe other people's journal) as YOU.

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

Well, you made the important part of the observation: The user comments are effectively links into another person's account and they own the comments.

The missing piece are a "third-party" comment - something that is owned by the journal that is meant to represent someone else. It'd be useful for exactly this purpose.