[info]ardath_rekha in [info]07refugees

LJ's latest outrage: Snap.com

Guys, you'd better check this out. LJ has found a new way to spam our accounts. Now, when people hover over a link on your journal -- say, for instance, your "I've moved to InsaneJournal!" link -- LJ is having Snap.com generate a pop-up image to suck up bandwidth and add spyware to people's computers and God knows what else.

I really wasn't looking forward to going through all of my inactive accounts to deactivate that crap, but now I'm going to have to. Any chance LJ ever had of wooing me back? Just got totally flushed. This is the most obnoxious thing yet!

Here's the discussion that alerted me.
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Posted on Sep. 24th, 2007 at 12:45 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]elfwreck

There's also LJ-Archive (which I can't remember the website for, but googling would turn it up, and there are tutorials on various people's journals) that lets you transfer your LJ posts to another journal service.

It doesn't carry over comments or icons, and custom friendsgroups can get a bit weird, but it'll at least let you move the content over. (Dunno if you knew about that one.)
Posted on Sep. 25th, 2007 12:02 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]ex_zc478

Well, I got three of my five years on LJ copied over -- note for future users, you can only have 2 attempts at converting your journal for free -- then they ask for a donation. That'll teach me for not reading the FAQ first.
Posted on Sep. 25th, 2007 12:58 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]pouncer

If you want to save your comments to your hard drive, this post explains how. And it also mentions a utility for transferring posts (no comments or music/mood/location info, but better than nothing).
Posted on Sep. 25th, 2007 03:19 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply