dreamwidth

[certainthings]

I've gotten around to following the masses and have decided to move my livejournal entries over to dreamwidth (just in case). Uhm. How long is it supposed to take? It's been 18 hours and they're still not moved over.

Comments

[moonie]

It's pretty quick usually but a lot of users are backing up their journals right now so the queue is very long. When any part of your import fails or succeeds you should be getting a PM.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

People should stop so that mine can go through. :p

[overstreets.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for being DW illiterate but how do you import your entries?

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

"Once you're logged in locate the menu (upper left) -> Organize -> Import Content. On that page there's a button at the bottom saying 'Start another import'. Click that and follow the steps. :)" [this c/p'd from a comment by moonilicious]

[gwyntastic.livejournal.com]

I've been in the queue for TWO days.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Hurry up! Shove people out of the way. :p

[gwyntastic.livejournal.com]

IDK. DW people are kinda scary.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Hey, have you rebooted your computer during your queue?

[gwyntastic.livejournal.com]

I shut the lid and that puts it to sleep. But, I haven't rebooted. I did check the status on my nook though.

[alwayseven.livejournal.com]

I get why, but I hate that everyone's going to dreamwidth. DON'T LEAVE ME.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not leaving here EVER unless I'm forced to. I just thought it'd be a good idea to move everything over in case something happens to lj and all posts are deleted or we can't log in or some other reason.

[alwayseven.livejournal.com]

OKAY, GOOD. Just checking.

I guess I should do that too, but it just seems like way too much work.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

It's not it just apparently takes forever. I mean, once you click a few buttons you're good to go and can just leave it alone.

[eilan.livejournal.com]

I've had a DW for a while.. never really realized i could import all my stuff over there. I shall do that in a few days, hopefully the queue isnt as crazy.
I'm Eilan over there too.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

We seem to be friended over there. I think.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I started my move two days ago and it's still not done. It's about halfway through my entries. And my comments are probably gonna take a WEEK, I have so many.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. I guess I won't be expecting it to be done anytime soon.

[ames1010.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I really should do this.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Probably a good idea ... I just hope I never have to actually leave lj.

[ames1010.livejournal.com]

Same here! I've been on LJ for so many years, and it's kinda my internet "home," ya know?

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

I do know. I feel all lost and twitchy when LJ is down.

[essene.livejournal.com]

I'm going on day 3 baby. Day 3. I'm holding out hope until I get that message that it succeeded or failed in my inbox. While refreshing my inbox rabidly.

I'd recommend doing a Book: LJ Book just to be absolutely sure you have everything for posterity and then go ahead and jump in the queue.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Three days? Holy shit! And thank you for the link to LJ Book.

[fitz-y.livejournal.com]

find me over on DW whenever you get a chance, bb! when i imported it took like 10 minutes. but i think i had a total of 5 entries at that point, and it was not during the big rush going on now b/c of LJ's failing.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

And done (I hope). Now I realize I should have done the the import thing a long time ago.

[fitz-y.livejournal.com]

*\0/* woohoo

[ms-nerd.livejournal.com]

You're going to crosspost, right?

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that I might start doing that soon. Just so I don't have to back up everything again. Also, I'll have to learn how to crosspost.

ps. I don't think we've seen a picture of your BABBY in awhile. *hint hint*

[ms-nerd.livejournal.com]

I'm not migrating to DW because I'm old and set in my ways. I need you in my life, dammit!

Ha, I'll post some this week just for you.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not leaving LJ ever. I mean unless I'm forced to. I mentioned elsewhere on here, that I'm just moving things over just in case something happens and all my entries are lost. If that happened I'd be quite sad.

\o/

[hamarakissa.livejournal.com]

I have a DW account - and I might import my entries, I don't know. I'll be cross-posting but using LJ for the most part when it's working. It will get better - hopefully. However when it's not working I will use my DW account.

If you'd like to add me there I'm using the name kissapentu :)

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

I think that I might start crossposting. Maybe. I usually forget that I have a dreamwidth account.

I'm smidgy06 over there.

[micheleeeex.livejournal.com]

This is totally off topic, but I see that we have Supernatural & White Collar in common and I friended you :)

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Awesome! *friends back*

[pie_andcoffee]

I come back here so rarely. I usually am working anymore when I'm not sleeping and occasionally eating.

I miss my old life.

:(

/end emo

I ported everything to DW last year sometime and it took only about 10 minutes per account. The thing I loved about DW was that I could port all 3 of my auld LJs into ONE shiny DW account. So everything I wrote over here went over there. Some day I'll sort thru it and re-connect the links so my stories & master posts, etc., actually work again. Porting in unfortunately means that all the original "Click here to continue reading" linkies point to those old LJ entries. I think I've fixed about 6 of them; only about 300 more to go. LJBook is great too, and I see someone already turned you on to that.

Hope you are well! It's nice seeing you again.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Dreamwidth made an announcement that because there's so much being imported they've put things on hold for a few days.

Is your working going well for you?

[gigglingkat]

Just to mirror what others are saying. When I first imported by LJ, it took 4 years of content a couple of hours to import. It's gotta be a backlog.

But there is also a way to copy/paste your lj flist to dw - as most people keep their names... I shall go find...

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's backlog. A whole lot of it. Dreamwidth said they've put things on hold for a few days because there's so much of it. I'm hoping my stuff is moved over by the end of the week.

[santacarlagypsy.livejournal.com]

Please don't leave livejournal!

Um.

Just in case: I think we have one another friended over there don't we?

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yeah, I don't plan on leaving ever. And yes, I'm sure we have each other friended over there and if not, I'm micmezle over there as well.