Made of fail

[trinityvixen]

Some of you who have been panicking over LJ shutting down have been looking for alternatives. I suggest LJ Archive--saves the format all right, you can resync the same archive and thus don't need several copies to cover the months missed by the last backup.

The other best option that I've explored would have been LJ Book. I say would have because after having the FAQ, I have determined that there is no way in hell anyone is getting a book out of them any time soon--regardless of whether they sucker you into paying them not to do jack shit for you. Because they only allow 2-3 books to be made per hour. That is just not a feasible solution when literally thousands of people (to say nothing of communities) are probably rushing about trying to figure out how to save their journals.

Any other solutions people have found, please do share, and best of luck to you.

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm having the same issues. Whenever it is I'm sufficiently bored (which could be today!), I will start monkeying around with it and see if I can figure out if there's some other download that would fix that. Truthfully, a lot of the memes might just be broken links at this point, so that doesn't worry me.

I didn't think to save it as an HTML, but that's an idea. What's DoPDF?

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

The first thing I did after saving it was look for a way to export it in a common format: I don't want to be locked into LJArchive's format any more than I want to be stuck with everything online. There are options to export as HTML, MIDI and XML.

DoPDF is a pdf-making utility you can download for free online. It functions like a printer driver, so anything you can print, you can save as a PDF. I've used it to save online recipts and transfer Word files into pdfs.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's pretty brilliant. It sounds similar to a function that the Safari browser I have at work offers--you can view anything to be printed as a PDF before printing it. I will have to download it. Because, like you, I like LJ Archive, but the format is not eminently readable and I'd like the option of backing it up and un-installing LJ Archive if I so chose.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Another option is ljdump, which does save an LJ directly as XML. It stores comments and entries in separate XML files, though, and does not try to recreate the page layout, so it's probably not what you want. I'd best get on trying to figure out how to convert this guy to pdf format, as that probably would be nice...