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rebeccmeisterI stopped crossposting to LJ during the most recent crosspost-fail saga, but the biggest thing that has caused me to hold onto my LJ account was photos. I had around 2500 photos hosted in the Scrapbook, and for various reasons some of those photos were really inaccessible anywhere other than LJ.
Someone pointed out that it may become very difficult/impossible for those of us who don't live in a northern Asian/European country to send money to the owners of LJ due to recent sanctions, so it was time to redouble my efforts to figure out how involved the process of downloading my old photos was going to get.
Thankfully, someone came up with an achievable workflow:
https://ironymaiden.dreamwidth.org/1072255.html
I had around 100 albums over there, containing those 2500 photos. I feel so much better knowing that I now have at least local copies of those photos. I also saved a copy of my text file that contains the alt text and titles. So at some point when I'm not in the midst of trying to finish grading lab reports, I could see it being possible to come up with a method to reapply the titles and alt text to the images.
I will most likely repost everything over to Flickr at some point.
This does trigger lots of thoughts and feelings about having been blogging for nearly 20 years now, and how much of what I've written is probably unimportant and trivial in retrospect. I'm not going to worry about that right now. The bots can deal.
Someone pointed out that it may become very difficult/impossible for those of us who don't live in a northern Asian/European country to send money to the owners of LJ due to recent sanctions, so it was time to redouble my efforts to figure out how involved the process of downloading my old photos was going to get.
Thankfully, someone came up with an achievable workflow:
https://ironymaiden.dreamwidth.org/1072255.html
I had around 100 albums over there, containing those 2500 photos. I feel so much better knowing that I now have at least local copies of those photos. I also saved a copy of my text file that contains the alt text and titles. So at some point when I'm not in the midst of trying to finish grading lab reports, I could see it being possible to come up with a method to reapply the titles and alt text to the images.
I will most likely repost everything over to Flickr at some point.
This does trigger lots of thoughts and feelings about having been blogging for nearly 20 years now, and how much of what I've written is probably unimportant and trivial in retrospect. I'm not going to worry about that right now. The bots can deal.
