Archiving a LiveJournal Community
December 14, 2011 4:01 PM Subscribe
How can a now-defunct LiveJournal community archive its posts & comments?
Not ashamed to say it: I'm talking about iworkatborders, a once-thriving community that has fallen on tough times, given what happened to the employer in question.
There's a fair amount of user demand for creating an archive of posts & comments - but there doesn't seem to be an easy way of doing so within LiveJournal.
Anyone who's dealt with a similar issue is most welcome to comment. We'd be looking for a solution that can work across platforms - i.e., where it's not dependent on where the eventual archive is located.
The archive would not have to be open to comments, although that's fine if it works.
Thoughts? Experiences? Tech-heavy options like LJSM are okay, but we don't have any users who have come forth and said they can do such stuff.
Not ashamed to say it: I'm talking about iworkatborders, a once-thriving community that has fallen on tough times, given what happened to the employer in question.
There's a fair amount of user demand for creating an archive of posts & comments - but there doesn't seem to be an easy way of doing so within LiveJournal.
Anyone who's dealt with a similar issue is most welcome to comment. We'd be looking for a solution that can work across platforms - i.e., where it's not dependent on where the eventual archive is located.
The archive would not have to be open to comments, although that's fine if it works.
Thoughts? Experiences? Tech-heavy options like LJSM are okay, but we don't have any users who have come forth and said they can do such stuff.
Response by poster: Thanks, floweredfish - I'll take a look.
posted by snoe at 4:55 PM on December 14, 2011
posted by snoe at 4:55 PM on December 14, 2011
I've used both LJ Book and ljarchive. Not sure if there's a solution that would let you host it online.
posted by bettafish at 5:47 PM on December 14, 2011
posted by bettafish at 5:47 PM on December 14, 2011
ljarchive is not quite fully functional right now and I don't know if they're trying to fix it, or waiting for LJ to change something; it will download entries but not comments (for me, and I haven't tried to archive a community lately).
posted by lemniskate at 8:20 PM on December 14, 2011
posted by lemniskate at 8:20 PM on December 14, 2011
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posted by floweredfish at 4:10 PM on December 14, 2011 [2 favorites]