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    Friday, April 4th, 2008
    11:41 pm
    [chronomex]
    Transferring from another journal site

    I recently came from LJ, so I have a decent history — something like 300 posts and comments on many of them. I used LJMigrate to copy the posts to IJ, which is rather neat. However, there are some rather known problems. In short:

    1. <lj user=""> tags aren't converted into proper HTML to link back to the original site.
    2. Friends groups are misnamed (though empty).
    3. I think all my entries have the default userpic on them now. Not a big deal for me because I rarely pay attention to the userpic anyway.
    4. Comments aren't transferred.

    I think there's an easy solution to the comments. Ideally comments would be transferred in such a way that they appear to have been made in their present location, using OpenID. I don't know anything about the LJ codebase. Would it require an inordinate amount of trickery to do this? I might be willing to try.

    Of course, it could be a paid feature, going for $3-$5 just like a rename token. If I were to offer it that way, I'd want to include an option to transfer just about everything — userpics, make RSS feeds for friends' journals, comment IP addresses, memories (if applicable), and so forth.

    What do you think? I think I'm just an overreaching amateur.

    Monday, October 23rd, 2006
    10:29 am
    [squeaky]
    Welcome
    I see we have a new member or two here in this asylum. Development has been rather non-existant on the site for quite some time. If anyone would like to help out there is some work that needs to be done on the private messaging system. As well as a few other tweaks here or there that could definatly help the site out. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

    Also I have been pondering this for awhile, ever since SixApart aquired LiveJournal acutally. It seems that the open source side of there development has really hit a stand still. I'd like to start some sort of a development community that works on a LJ repository outside of the confines of Danga/SixApart. If anyone here thinks it would be a worthwhile undertaking, please comment here and we can start a discussion.
    Thursday, August 21st, 2003
    9:43 am
    [squeaky]
    Developer Request
    InsaneJournal wants to start offering integrated IRC chat into the site. I want this to be done via a Java IRC client. The client should use enduser resources to connect to the IRC server. Now I understand that there are already a lot of clients out there already and I would not be opposed to using one.

    Our limitations. The server will *NOT* be running an IRC server. Thats just asking for trouble as I dont have any IRC admin experience not to mention our limited bandwidth. Now I should be able to put this right into a BML file.

    If anyone out there has experience doing this it would be greatly appreciated. Please comment with suggestions and ideas.
    Tuesday, August 19th, 2003
    10:25 am
    [squeaky]
    CVS Anonymous pserver
    okay, I have finally set up an anonymous CVS pserver for you all to check out the InsaneJournal code. Right now the code tree we have set up, is exactly what is running on the live site.

    This server will be where all development code is placed until it is ready for production.

    If you want to checkout the code (really only for serious developers) the login is anonymous with a blank password. The pserver is located at squeaky.no-ip.com:2401

    I dont plan on posting directions on how to checkout code, basically if you want to muck around with the IJ code, you can either research cvs, or you already know how to.

    We will accept code patches in the form of unified diffs.

    Until we get a better system set up for them, you can just e-mail your patches to squeaky@insanejournal.com (make sure the diff is run from the latest code from the cvs server). I'll go over the patch and then place it on the testing server (http://ij.squeak.net/ [info]codetesting). If it passes our tests then it will go live.

    Eventually we will be granting commiter access to a limited number of developers, but first we need some actual IJ projects to work on. For now, all you perl coders get a copy of the code and become familliar with it, I have a lot of ideas floating around in this big brain of mine.
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