[admin] Good news, everyone! Archival success and reminder about subjects
Thanks to a nifty little site called LJBook that I discovered, I have been able to archive R_E from GJ!
The GJ version of the community has been archived as a PDF covering its creation mid-2007 to December of 07 (it didn't include the last couple of entries during January, sorry!) and includes comments in nested order.
You can download it here (2.2 mb). Try 'save link as' and let me know if you have problems.
A couple of notes: the archival process didn't capture the names of individual entry owners, unfortunately, nor did it capture user icons, but the comment stream generally makes it possible to figure who wrote what. While this isn't completely perfect, it's far better than nothing. Sorry for those who might have trouble using PDF- this was the handiest and most legible format I could think of for easy storage, portability and most importantly COHERENCY at the end-user level. My biggest concern was saving the conversations and comments in order, and this has done that.
I'll post up the link to the PDF in the sidebar shortly!
A related house-keeping note: Please be sure to give your community entries a full subject line. I notice some entries from the old comm had no subject, and this makes it even more difficult on an archival level to backtrack who wrote posts. Remember to use [subject] tags, post full titles of fanfics in the subject line with ratings and pairings if any, and also (new for 2008) to put your name and title at the start of any fanfic texts, like:
The Zeroth Law
by mystery_muse, Jan 2008.
If you do this, it'll make future archiving much cleaner and ensure that you don't get your work mistaken for someone else's. ;D
Welcome back![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
fire_bolero as co-moderator!
Lastly, the comm's userinfo has been updated slightly to include additional links to significant fanon discussions. I'm sure I could backlink to more of them from GJ and may do so later. :D
The GJ version of the community has been archived as a PDF covering its creation mid-2007 to December of 07 (it didn't include the last couple of entries during January, sorry!) and includes comments in nested order.
You can download it here (2.2 mb). Try 'save link as' and let me know if you have problems.
A couple of notes: the archival process didn't capture the names of individual entry owners, unfortunately, nor did it capture user icons, but the comment stream generally makes it possible to figure who wrote what. While this isn't completely perfect, it's far better than nothing. Sorry for those who might have trouble using PDF- this was the handiest and most legible format I could think of for easy storage, portability and most importantly COHERENCY at the end-user level. My biggest concern was saving the conversations and comments in order, and this has done that.
I'll post up the link to the PDF in the sidebar shortly!
A related house-keeping note: Please be sure to give your community entries a full subject line. I notice some entries from the old comm had no subject, and this makes it even more difficult on an archival level to backtrack who wrote posts. Remember to use [subject] tags, post full titles of fanfics in the subject line with ratings and pairings if any, and also (new for 2008) to put your name and title at the start of any fanfic texts, like:
The Zeroth Law
by mystery_muse, Jan 2008.
If you do this, it'll make future archiving much cleaner and ensure that you don't get your work mistaken for someone else's. ;D
Welcome back
fire_bolero as co-moderator!Lastly, the comm's userinfo has been updated slightly to include additional links to significant fanon discussions. I'm sure I could backlink to more of them from GJ and may do so later. :D