Are we having fun yet?

[shewhomust]

A State of the SheWhoMust update - which, dammit, is not what I wanted to be posting about. Then again, if my posts are to reflect the things that occupy my thoughts and take up my time, we are due several more on this subject. There are practical reasons, too, for a PSA along the lines of I am still here, I am trying to make this work, I am learning slowly, please bear with me...

I have not burned my boats with LJ. It may come to that, but for the time being I am still cross-posting, and I am still checking my friends page there. With diminishing results, admittedly: it's a bit of a tumbleweed town over there. Some people, I know, have moved to Dreamwidth, though I haven't found them all yet - and I was slow to work out how to do the 'subscribe / grant access' thing, so I hope I haven't seemed to snub anyone (and if I have, I didn't mean to honest!).

So I have a to-do list, and item one is: find friends. If you are reading this and I haven't made the link, please wave, and I'll remedy that.

Item two: find feeds. Unless DW doesn't do that, in which case, find out what DW does do to fill the gap (something. surely?).

Item three: in any case, find out more about how DW works. And whether there's an equivalent to the LJ-Archive software I've been using - still am, although it isn't ideal to be backing up a cross-posted account, even if LJ continues to support both sides of that equation (and I'd rather not be counting on that, either...).

Three items is enough for now. In other news, we have signed up with a bathroom company to convert the downstairs bathroom / shower room into a wet room, agreed a start date (beginning of May) and told the builder who did so much work for us last year that we have not accepted his bid. I'm sure we've made the right choice, though I'm frustrated that we can't have exactly what we want. Some of that is for technical reasons: I liked the idea of an overhead shower, but it would have meant replumbing the entire house, and rewiring the basement (I don't really understand the need, but that's why we employ professionals...). Some of it is just fashion: if you want two separate taps on your sink, it seems, you have to have an Edwardian style retro pedestal basin. Two taps is not modern. (In which case, I'll settle for a single mixer tap, but not without grumbling). These compromises make the whole project less exciting, but since it has to be done (and it does) I'm glad that we are that much closer to having it done. Now we can go on holiday and not think about it -

Oh, wait! Going on holiday: add item one-and-a-half to that list! Make sure I have DW logged in on my notebook...

Comments

[wolfinthewood]

I can answer your question about feeds; you need this page: http://www.dreamwidth.org/feeds/

And this post may help trace friends from LJ: https://2017revival.dreamwidth.org/2102.html

[cellio]

Ooh, I didn't know about that journal -- thanks!

shewhomust welcome. You're using LJ-Archive? It stopped working for me a few years ago, though, granted, I'm running it under emulation on a Mac. Hmm, I wonder if there's a newer version than what I have...

[shewhomust]

LJ-Archive stopped working, but is now working again. I suspect that the issues are at the LJ end, hence the desire for a replacement. But if you've used it in the past, it's probably worth trying...

[shewhomust]

Thanks for both of these links. I could spend far too much time having fun with the feed list!

[athenais]

I admit I'm a bit slow on finding all the ways in which DW works. Someone told me yesterday they are beginning to host photos again; must look into that. I can't quite bring myself to kill off my LJ yet, I need to back up a community I ran first, but then I think I really will abandon ship. As it is, I am not reading over there any more.

[lil_shepherd]

My photos all came over when I backed up over here. What didn't was video links. Some things (like number of icons/avatars) are linked to whether you have a free, paid, or professional account. (Look for the shop page for details.)

[sovay]

My photos all came over when I backed up over here.

I mean this seriously: would you mind explaining to me how you managed that? I have more than a decade of photos at LJ and I have never seen a way to import them to Dreamwidth.

[lil_shepherd]

When I imported my postings (and comments) the photos came over with them.

However, it occurs to me that all my photos are imported from Flickr which is where the originals are located. If you are storing your photos on LJ's dedicated system (I forget the name but I've always found it deeply unfriendly) it may explain why we have different results.

[sovay]

If you are storing your photos on LJ's dedicated system (I forget the name but I've always found it deeply unfriendly) it may explain why we have different results.

"Scrapbook." Okay, I did not realize you were talking about photos in entries; I thought you meant photos in LJ's archive. That is a very different thing. Thanks!

[wolfinthewood]

It appears that the only way to import your photos will be to download them from LJ to your computer and then upload them to DW. See https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=248

I am not sure whether LJ has a download scrapbook function. You might have to select and save each image individually.

[wolfinthewood]

Semagic, the venerable LJ client, has a function for exporting an LJ scrapbook that might help you. If it works as it is supposed to, it should download all the images in your scrapbook to a folder on your machine.

Unfortunately, it will not run on Windows versions higher than 7. But if you think it might be useful to you let me know and I'll give you more details.

[sovay]

Unfortunately, it will not run on Windows versions higher than 7. But if you think it might be useful to you let me know and I'll give you more details.

I've got Mac OS X. What are my chances?

[wolfinthewood]

Semagic will run on OS X under Wine, apparently. See
http://semagic.sourceforge.net/index.html

I know what Wine is, but I have never used it myself.

If you can get Semagic installed on your machine, you want the Journal menu, then Pictures > Open LiveJournal Scrapbook > [opens a new window]> Export. Then choose a location to save to on your machine.

(On my version of Semagic, which is the latest but one, the Export button is a text link on the right hand side.)

I can't test this out properly because I have deactivated my journal, and in any case I used to store my images on Flickr.

But if you do install Semagic, it is a pretty good posting client - I've used it for years - and it can be used for Dreamwidth as easily as for LJ. You just have to change the server setting to www.dreamwidth.org. (Leave the API setting as LiveJournal.)

[shewhomust]

My primary way of hosting photos has always been embedding from Flickr, and while that's no more certain than any other site, at least it's something I don't have to resolve right now! I do have odd images stored on LJ, and I supose I ought to check up on those (something else to add to the list).

[cmcmck]

Fwiw, I post my pics to DW via my photohosting and it really is a painless and quick process which it isn't on LJ to which I x post from here, or did until the silliness of a couple of days ago!

[cmcmck]

I've had to burn my boats- given my background, I was left with no choice.

Glad to find you here though! :o)

[klwilliams]

I'm looking forward to seeing the updated house, once all the contractors are finished. A real shower will be exciting. (I'm in the single tap school of thought, since that's what I grew up with.)

[shewhomust]

Oh, come see the updates - don't wait for contractors to be finished, since who knows?