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Uploading your posts to another journal
In case anyone who’s interested doesn't know about this: There is a way to upload all your LJ posts to another LJ-type site without doing it manually. I used a program called LJ-Sec, which can be found here.
I'd previously been using this program as a handy way to adjust the security settings of posts in bulk, but it turns out it can also be used to upload your posts to another journal. The instructions are in the help table of contents, where there's a link to "Reposting entries to another journal." It's pretty straight forward once you see how it works.
I only tried a few posts at first, to see if I had the setup correct, and I'd recommend doing that as a test. That way, if something doesn't work out, you don't have to delete everything (although there is a way to bulk delete in the program as well).
It won’t transfer your tags or your comments. I suppose it might get your correct user picture if you first uploaded the pics to your alternative journal using the same keywords, but I’m far too lazy to do that, so I don’t really know. It will transfer your security settings, but I don’t know how well it does with custom filters. I didn’t have any filters set up when I did the transfer, and while I retroactively set up some of the filters, I don’t have anyway to see if they worked. If anyone friend-ed on both my lj and gj cares to check to see if they can read the same filtered posts in both journals, I’d be interested in hearing about it.
I can't claim to have figured this all out on my own--someone, somewhere had posted that LJ-Sec could upload to an alternative journal, which made me check it out, but I can't remember where I got the info from.
So, yes, anyone who was thinking I uploaded all those posts by hand--ha! Like I have the patience for that.
I'd previously been using this program as a handy way to adjust the security settings of posts in bulk, but it turns out it can also be used to upload your posts to another journal. The instructions are in the help table of contents, where there's a link to "Reposting entries to another journal." It's pretty straight forward once you see how it works.
I only tried a few posts at first, to see if I had the setup correct, and I'd recommend doing that as a test. That way, if something doesn't work out, you don't have to delete everything (although there is a way to bulk delete in the program as well).
It won’t transfer your tags or your comments. I suppose it might get your correct user picture if you first uploaded the pics to your alternative journal using the same keywords, but I’m far too lazy to do that, so I don’t really know. It will transfer your security settings, but I don’t know how well it does with custom filters. I didn’t have any filters set up when I did the transfer, and while I retroactively set up some of the filters, I don’t have anyway to see if they worked. If anyone friend-ed on both my lj and gj cares to check to see if they can read the same filtered posts in both journals, I’d be interested in hearing about it.
I can't claim to have figured this all out on my own--someone, somewhere had posted that LJ-Sec could upload to an alternative journal, which made me check it out, but I can't remember where I got the info from.
So, yes, anyone who was thinking I uploaded all those posts by hand--ha! Like I have the patience for that.