Heh.

[hmpf]

I'm at work; I meant to read Mikey's furry!porn now, but my boss is around, so maybe not. ;-) Instead, I clicked on my 'meta' tag, because occasionally I get curious about my own past thoughts - and rediscovered that I actually give fairly good meta, albeit not on a very regular basis. I mean, it's not worldclass meta - it's often vague and disorganised and so on - but I still enjoy rereading some of those discussions, and I don't feel terribly stupid in retrospect. In most cases, anyway. *g*

I'm a bit ashamed, though, because in about half of those discussions I dropped out halfway through, due to my tendency to get overwhelmed.

I wish there was a way to not only download the contents of one's LJ including comments, but also to re-upload them to some other journaling service including comments, because I'd hate for fandom to lose all of this public history in the inevitable move sometime in the medium-term future. (We all know that fandom can't stay on LJ forever, don't we? We may try to ignore that fact, like San Francisco may try to ignore that it's due for a monstrously big earthquake, but it's still there, looming ominously somewhere in the future.)

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[mikes-grrl.livejournal.com]

We all know that fandom can't stay on LJ forever, don't we?

Truth. What's next? My bet is fan wikis -- but still, the ability to interact in the comments is something unique (thus far) to blog sites. A new blog site coming along combining the best of LJ and the best of wikis will rake it in. (in fact you see exactly that dynamic in some of the professional CMS systems, like DotNetNuke)

That said, I think LJ will always be around in some form, just like the really old fan archives and forum boards are still around today, even as dusty and unused as they are. Still, a lot of history could get lost if a comm goes down for whatever reason, much less private sites like ours getting deleted. Can say it keeps me up at night -- and I know OTW is working to find ways of archiving fandom history -- but still, it will disappointing when it inevitably happens.

[tgifa.livejournal.com]

I wish there was a way to not only download the contents of one's LJ including comments

Hm... if there don't already exist things like that, I'm pretty sure that I could write a perl script which could do that... but not this year. (-> Feel free to shove me if you should really need such backup at some point in the future.)